Narrative Authenticity

Ochs, Elinor; Capps, Lisa

doi:10.1075/jnlh.7.09nar

Article published In: Oral Versions of Personal Experience: Three decades of narrative analysis
[Journal of Narrative and Life History 7:1-4] 1997
► pp. 83–89

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Narrative Authenticity

Elinor Ochs | University of California Los Angeles

Lisa Capps | University of California Berkeley

Published online: 4 August 2015

https://doi.org/10.1075/jnlh.7.09nar

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