Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. 1. Introduction 1
4. Part I: Acquiring the world through narrative interaction
5. 2. Fantasy stories and conversational narratives of personal experience 15
6. 3. The "Two-Puppies" Story 57
7. 4. The role of narrative interaction in narrative development 93
8. 5. Humorous disaster and success stories among female adolescents in Germany 113
9. Part II: The co-construction of narratives
10. 6. Construction of self-narrative in a psychotherapeutic setting 151
11. 7. The role of metaphor in the narrative co-construction of collaborative experience 169
12. 8. The use of interjections in Italian conversation 197
13. Part III: Retold Stories
14. 9. Same old story? 223
15. 10. Institutional memories: the narrative retelling of a professionel life 243
16. 11. Interaction in the telling and retelling of interlaced stories: The co-construction of humorous narratives 263
17. 12. Narrative reconstruction of past experiences 285
18. Index 303