Telling the story: Meaning making in a community narrative

Stapleton, Karyn; Wilson, John

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2016.11.003

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“…Rather than individual, de-contextualised narratives, the stories analysed here come from the same organisation and are analysed along with ethnographic data from the organisation. Focusing on storytelling in the context of an organisation rather than individual examples allows us to focus on the sense-making and identity functions of storytelling in a community (see also Stapleton and Wilson, 2017). Furthermore, by focusing on how founders' stories are used in an organisation undergoing increasing internationalisation, the article contributes to narrative research by showing how organisational discourses function as sensemaking tools in times of organisational change, and also how these discourses are used both to construct an organisational identity and in employees' own identity work.…”

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“…One such function is as a sense-making resource (Baynham and De Fina, 2016), often in relation to participants' life stories. For our purposes here, however, the function of narratives as a tool for sense-making in organisations (Brown et al, 2009) and other communities (Stapleton and Wilson, 2017) is particularly interesting. Here, focus is on how organisational narratives are used by members to make sense of organisational issues and events.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The family spirit: making sense of organisational internationalisation through founder's stories

Lønsmann

2019

Journal of Pragmatics

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confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The family spirit: making sense of organisational internationalisation through founder's stories

Lønsmann

2019

Journal of Pragmatics

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“…Narrating the sociomaterial entanglements with the city An identity of a group is constructed with narrative templates, consisting of collective memories organised and told in specific ways (Stapleton and Wilson, 2017). In the first part of the analysis, the ways people described the city of Turku as a homean intimate, a material and a meaningful place for the respondents and a collective site of embodied reflections from the pastwere examined.…”

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Exploring the embodied narrations of the city

Satama¹,

Räikkönen

2020

IJCTHR

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Purpose This study aims to explore how people bodily narrate and use collective memory to clarify their embodied experiences regarding a city which they memorise. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on 1,359 short stories collected by the online travel portal Visit Turku about ‘How the city feels’, the fine-grained embodied experiences of people are represented through descriptions of their feelings towards the city of Turku. Findings Based on the analysis, two aspects through which the respondents narrated their embodied experiences of cities have been identified: (1) the sociomaterial entanglements with the city and (2) the humane relationship with the city. Research limitations/implications This study is limited to short stories acquired online, raising questions of anonymity and representativeness. Thus, these narrations are constructions which have to be interpreted as told by specific people in a certain time and place. Practical implications Tourist agencies should pay attention to the value of looking at written stories as bodily materialisations of people’s experiences of city destinations. Understanding this would strengthen the cities’ competitiveness. Originality/value By empirically highlighting how people memorise a city through narrations, the study offers novel viewpoints on the embodied experiences in cities as well as the cultural constructs these narrations are based on, thus broadening our understanding of how cities become bodily entangled with us.

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“…In addition, each group of patients has a particular way of perceiving their own psychotherapeutic process, precisely because they have different modes of cognition, defense, and adaptation, as well as different experiential modes, behavioral orientations, types of gratification, and most importantly, different relational patterns reflected in their speech (Blatt et al, 2001;Luyten, Campbell, & Fonagy, 2019). However, the specific interactional experiences are not only represented in a narrative way (Stapleton & Wilson, 2017); also, a repeated verbalization of such experiences represents the structure of relevant subject-object relationships, as a pattern that transcends the perspective of the individual narrative reconstructed subjectively .…”

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Conflictual relational demands of anaclitic and introjective depressive women

Valdés¹,

Alamo

Reinel

2019

RevPsicología

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The depression is associated with typical ways of relating to and handling conflict with others. This study empirically examined the most frequent relational demands of female depressive patients, depending on their personality configuration and the characteristics of relevant segments within the session: change and stuck episodes. Ten psychotherapies (n = 230 sessions) were observed in order to identify, delimit and code relevant episodes within session (24 change episodes and 26 stuck episodes) using the CCRT-LU-S Category System (Albani et al., 2002), to determine patients’ relational demands. The results showed that introjective patients verbalized more relational demands on themselves as a relational object, and therefore more demands with a subject-subject direction. These patients expressed their needs and wishes centered on questioning themselves, to the detriment of generating significant interpersonal relationships. Furthermore, it was possible to predict a greater presence of relational demands referred to contents about “loving” during the change episodes, confirming that the most frequent themes in patients’ discourse were a strong wish to feel happy, despite their experiences of helplessness. These findings highlight the need for a more dimensional view of depression that takes into account patients’ personality configurations and their association with little and big outcomes.

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Telling the story: Meaning making in a community narrative

Cited by 56 publications

References 21 publications

The family spirit: making sense of organisational internationalisation through founder's stories

The family spirit: making sense of organisational internationalisation through founder's stories

Exploring the embodied narrations of the city

Conflictual relational demands of anaclitic and introjective depressive women

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