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Narrative practices and the social construction of self in childhood
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Narrative, self, and face‐to‐face interaction all intersect in everyday storytelling practices in which children and caregivers make claims to personal experiences. This article examines such practices as a site for the social construction of self in early childhood. Drawing upon excerpts of narrative talk from a variety of cultural traditions in the United States, we describe the self‐relevant meanings and processes entailed in three particular narrative practices. [narrative, self, childhood socialization, language socialization, ethnopsychology]
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- Authors
- MILLER, P. J., POTTS, R., FUNG, H., HOOGSTRA, L., & MINTZ, J.
- Venue
- American Ethnologist
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1990-05
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 292-311
- ISSN
- 0094-0496 (ISSN-L)
- 1548-1425
- OpenAlex
- W1977773788
- Cited by
- 270
- References
- 47
- FWCI
- 13.41
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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