Aisulu Kulbayeva
List of John Benjamins publications in which Aisulu Kulbayeva is involved.
Articles
2025 Chapter 9. Voices from the Kazakhstani periphery: Constructing an identity of a village woman through a selfportrait in a mealtime narrative Identity Perspectives from Peripheries, Matsumoto, Yoshiko and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 188–217 | Chapter
The study integrates Schiffrin’s (1996) work on agentive and epistemic selves and Bamberg’s (1997) model of positioning to examine how an identity of a peripheral Kazakh woman is achieved via a self-portrait and a co-construction with another Kazakh woman in a mealtime conversation. Focusing on… read more
2022 Presenting self and aligning as a team through narratives of victimhood among Kazakh-speaking village neighbors Narrative Inquiry 32:2, pp. 309–342 | Article
This study illustrates how personal narratives of victimized self serve two Kazakh-speaking village neighbors to accomplish self-presentation during a mealtime interaction. Integrating Goffman’s (1959) theorization of self-presentation with narrative positioning (Bamberg, 1997; Schiffrin, 1996)… read more