Narrative Explanations: Accounting for Past Experience in Interviews

Cook-Gumperz, Jenny; Gumperz, John J.

doi:10.1075/jnlh.7.36nar

Article published In: Oral Versions of Personal Experience: Three decades of narrative analysis
[Journal of Narrative and Life History 7:1-4] 1997
► pp. 291–298

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Narrative Explanations: Accounting for Past Experience in Interviews

Jenny Cook-Gumperz | University of California, Santa Barbara

John J. Gumperz | University of California, Berkeley

Published online: 4 August 2015

https://doi.org/10.1075/jnlh.7.36nar

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