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• WP348 Living with the chronotope of war: Sri Lankan Tamil diasporans in London

  Rampton & Sankaran

  2025

  ‘Are chronotopes helpful’, asked Jan Blommaert. This chapter answers affirmatively, but uses the concept differently from Blommaert, centring its analysis on the difficulties that Sri Lankan Tamils in London experience in talking about the Sri …

  Key words: chronotope, context, migration, narrative, refugees, Sri Lankan Tamils

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• WP342 Narrative, small stories and social media: Reflecting on a research trajectory

  Georgakopoulou in conversation with Enciso

  2025

  Talking to Enciso about narrative analysis, small stories and social media, Georgakopoulou discusses how her work addresses epistemology, practice theory and methodological remixing; media affordances, changing formats and monetisation; and …

  Key words: methodology, narrative, small stories, social media

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• WP339 Gaining and gauging trust through small stories in the interaction between guardians and unaccompanied minors

  Remue

  2025

  In the lead-up to their asylum interviews, unaccompanied minors often struggle to disclose the highly sensitive and personal narratives of their migration journeys to their legal guardians. Instead, they may resort to “thin stories”: generic, …

  Key words: alter-narratives, asylum interview, legal guardians, narrative, narrative practices, small stories, thin stories, trust, unaccompanied minors

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• WP73 Here and there: Space and social positioning in the identity narratives of Andalusian migrants

  Macías

  2011

  This article explores a set of identity?related narratives collectively constructed by a group of Andalusian (Southern Spain) migrants settled in Aarhus, Denmark, in a focus group interview. Linking up to previous narrative work in which the role of …

  Key words: focus groups, identity, migration, narrative, small‐stories, space

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• WP9 Narrative, Argument and Literacy: A Comparative Study of the Narrative Discourse Development of Monolingual and Bilingual 5-10 Year Old Learners

  Shrubshall

  1997

  In order to find out more about bilingual children's narrative discourse acquisition, this paper analyses and compares the oral narrative discourse of bilingual and monolingual 5-10 year olds in two ways. It uses (a) Labov?s taxonomy to measure …

  Key words: argument, literacy, narrative

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