Family Storytelling : Negotiating Identities, Teaching Lessons, and Making Meaning

ISBN-13: 9780415507721 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 152 str.

Jody Koenig Kellas

Opis

With so many important functions, storytelling is a significant but still understudied communicative process for the family. This volume focuses on the ways in which stories are told in and about family in order to provide insight into the processes, functions, and consequences of storytelling.

Spis treści

1. Framing Family: An Introduction Jody Koenig Kellas  Part I: Developing Identity in the Family  2. Exploring the Narrative Process: An Analysis of the Adoption Stories Mothers Tell Their Internationally Adopted Children Meredith Marko Harrigan  3. Using Relational Stories to Predict the Trajectory Toward Marital Dissolution: The Oral History Interview and Spousal Feelings of Flooding, Loneliness, and Depression Eve-Anne M. Doohan, Sybil Carrère and Matt L. Riggs  Part II: Teaching Lessons in the Family  4. "Love Stories aren’t Always like the Movies": The Relational Implications of Inheriting Parents’ Courtship Stories Haley Kranstuber  5. The Storied Nature of Health Legacies in the Familial Experience of Type 2 Diabetes Margaret M. Manoogian, Lynn M. Harter and Sharon A. Denham  Part III: Making Sense of Difficulty in the Family  6. Exploring Links Between Well-Being and Interactional Sense-Making in Married Couples’ Jointly Told Stories of Stress Jody Koenig Kellas, April R. Trees, Paul Schrodt, Cassandra LeClair-Underberg and Erin Willer  7. Inheriting the Narratives of Dementia: A Collaborative Tale of a Daughter and Mother Melissa Wood Alemán and Katherine W. Helfrich

O autorze

Jody Koenig Kellas is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. Her research focuses on the ways in which people communicate to make sense of their relationships and how communication, such as storytelling and perspective-taking, affect and reflect individual and relational well-being.