Date: 07-May-2010 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Storied Conflict Talk: Stewart, Maxwell E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Storied Conflict Talk
Subtitle: Narrative construction in mediation
Series Title: Studies in Narrative 12
Published: 2010
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Author: Katherine A. Stewart
Author: Madeline M. Maxwell
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027288264 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 128.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027288264 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 85.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027226525 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 85.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027226525 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 128.00
Abstract:
Narrative analyses routinely investigate autobiographical and interview data. This book examines narratives-in-interaction co-constructed by participants in formal mediation sessions, by asking how many of the five cases in the videotaped data display the adversarial narrative pattern pervasive within the interpersonal conflict literature, and secondly what other narrative patterns may be present, and how do they work? Focusing simultaneously at the utterance level and the macro-levels present within the larger dispute context, this book reveals situated communicative practices by which interlocutors interactively construct, resist, reproduce, and intertextually transform adversarial narratives to produce outcomes consonant with their underlying interests. In contrast to the dramaturgical model traditionally used in narrative research, this book illuminates the emergent, microgenetic character of narrative development.