This book offers a comprehensive theoretical and empirical engagement with the linguistic study of narrative as manifested in "mediatized mourning", the death-related rituals and memorialization activities found online in digital environments. Focusing on a "small story" approach, the volume meditates on the nature of contemporary mourning by grounding the discussion in its historical antecedents and then looking at how sociolinguistic and discourse-related perspectives can shed light on issues of identity construction and social and cultural change that emerge in examples of the "mediatized...