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ERIC Number: EJ376164
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1988
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Research Currents: Life as Narrative.
Bruner, Jerome
Language Arts, v65 n6 p574-83 Oct 1988
Examines four autobiographical self-narratives to see not what they are about, but how the narrators construct themselves. Proposes that an individual's ways of telling and conceptualizing eventually become recipes for structuring experience itself (past and future). (SR)
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Cognitive Structures, Discourse Analysis, Personal Narratives, Psychological Evaluation
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Discourse Organization; Perceived Reality; Reality
Note: Themed Issue: Critical Literacy/Critical Thinking.