Janet Spreckels
List of John Benjamins publications in which Janet Spreckels is involved.
2012 ‘I wanna become a real rock star’: Para-social interactions of German adolescent girls with television talent shows The Appropriation of Media in Everyday Life, Ayaß, Ruth and Cornelia Gerhardt (eds.), pp. 161–194 | Article
This ethnographic and conversation analytical study is based on authentic informal conversations of a group of German adolescent girls. The speakers regularly appropriate bits and pieces of media discourse and embed them in their daily communication. One prominent activity in the group’s… read more
2009 Now he thinks he's listening to rock music: Identity construction among German teenage girls Youngspeak in a Multilingual Perspective, Stenström, Anna-Brita and Annette Myre Jørgensen (eds.), pp. 31–53 | Article
This paper deals with disaffiliation and membership categorization processes among German adolescent girls. Drawing on a peer-group which I conceptualize as a ‘community of practice’ (Eckert & McConnell-Ginet 1992), this case study aims to show how the girls’ disaffiliation and categorization of… read more
2008 Identity negotiation in small stories among German adolescent girls Narrative Inquiry 18:2, pp. 393–413 | Article
In recent years, a change in narrative and identity analysis, which Georgakopoulou has called “a ‘new’ narrative turn” (2006, p. 129), has been observed. This term refers to a shift of focus from the traditional “big stories”, i.e., narratives as a well-defined and delineated genre with an… read more
2004 What discourse analysis reveals about elderly women, sex and the struggle with societal norms Considering Counter-Narratives: Narrating, resisting, making sense, Bamberg, Michael and Molly Andrews (eds.), pp. 205–212 | Article
2002 What discourse analysis reveals about elderly women, sex and the struggle with societal norms Narrative Inquiry 12:1, pp. 145–153 | Article