Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Introduction to the volume 1
5. "Goblins like to hear stories": Miskitu children's narratives of spirit encounters 9
6. Storying as becoming: Identity through the telling of conversion 41
7. Language and identity in discourse in the American South: Sociolinguistic repertoire as expressive resource in the presentation of self 71
8. Doing "being ordinary" in an interview narrative with a second generation Italian-Australian woman 89
9. "Moral versions" of motherhood and daughterhood in Greek-Australian family narratives 107
10. Repetition and identity experimentation: One child's use of repetition as a resource for "trying on" maternal identities 133
11. I beat them all up: Self-representation in young children's personal narratives 159
12. Multiple selves and thematic domains in gender identity: Perspectives from Chinese children's conflict management styles 181
13. "Mr. Lanoe hit on my mom": Reestablishment of believability in sequential 'small stories' by adolescent boys 229
14. "Strip poker! They don't show nothing!" : Positioning identities in adolescent male talk about a television game show 253
15. Using the other for oneself: Conversational practices of representing out-group members among adolescents 273
16. Like pieces in a puzzle: Working with layered methods of reading personal narratives 303
17. Theories of self in psychotherapeutic narratives 325
18. Index 351