CIECS   20730
CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES Y ESTUDIOS SOBRE CULTURA Y SOCIEDAD
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Invied speaker - The emergence of a survivor´s retellings and their inscription in bureaucratic narrative
Autor/es:
CARRANZA, ISOLDA E.
Lugar:
Washington, D. C.
Reunión:
Congreso; GURT 2018 Approaches to Discourse; 2018
Institución organizadora:
Georgetown University
Resumen:
Debby´s research on narrative offered us excellent examples of the decision to deal with materials and human experiences that are significant beyond academia (Schiffrin 2002, 2003). With an interest in discursive practices as they are deployed in the course of social life, I draw from a routine event in the justice system: taking a deposition from a victim of a street shooting. in order to focus on sequences of related stories purportedly having the same plot. The selected speech event allows for the observation of a type of storytelling inevitably conditioned by the court clerk´s strategic interactional behavior and distinct affective tone of rapport. In addition, it allows for the examination of the narrative that the clerk types on a computer while he is speaking with the deponent. The analysis of the verbal interaction reveals the deponent's tendency to produce synthetic stories and the clerk's tendency to slow down the development of the narrative action by requesting descriptions and detailed information. Multiple interactional sequences express reiterated content because narrative episodes are recycled. In contrast, the analysis of the written deposition reveals that narrative episodes are selected, reorganized and assembled into a story characterized by explicit causal and temporal relationships. However, a full consideration of intertextual relationships between the oral and the written text calls for additional conceptual tools in order to account for the presence and the absence of the deponent's indications of awareness of being close to death and his current fear of retaliation by perpetrators. The conclusions suggest that an ethnographically based, cultural perspective sheds light on a storyteller´s past and present as socially and historically situated and provide an understanding of the double victim-victimizer identity. At the same time, it highlights the skills involved in the roles of audience and storyteller in specific institutional cultures.