Family Storytelling
Negotiating Identities, Teaching Lessons, and Making Meaning
By Jody Koenig Kellas | Publisher: Taylor and Francis
About the book
Stories and storytelling are one of the primary ways that families and family members make sense of both everyday and difficult events, create a sense of individual and group identity, remember, connect generations, and establish guidelines for family behavior. With so many important functions, storytelling is a significant but still understudied communicative process for the family.
Family Storytelling focuses on the ways in which stories are told in and about family in order to provide insight into the processes, functions, and consequences of family storytelling. This collection of empirical articles illuminates various ways in which family storytelling affects and reflects the negotiation of individual and relational identity in the family, teaches important family lessons, and helps members make sense of and cope with difficulty. Each of these functions is explored through both scientific and interpretive investigations, thus showcasing the contributions that research on family storytelling from different paradigms make to our understanding of the family.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Family Communication.
Editions of Family Storytelling
- EBook
- ISBN 9781135704957
- PDF
- ISBN 9781135704889
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Stories and storytelling are one of the primary ways that families and family members make sense of both everyday and difficult events, create a sense of individual and group identity, remember, connect generations, and establish guidelines for family behavior. With so many important functions, storytelling is a significant but still understudied communicative process for the family.
Family Storytelling focuses on the ways in which stories are told in and about family in order to provide insight into the processes, functions, and consequences of family storytelling. This collection of empirical articles illuminates various ways in which family storytelling affects and reflects the negotiation of individual and relational identity in the family, teaches important family lessons, and helps members make sense of and cope with difficulty. Each of these functions is explored through both scientific and interpretive investigations, thus showcasing the contributions that research on family storytelling from different paradigms make to our understanding of the family.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Family Communication.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Family Storytelling about?
Stories and storytelling are one of the primary ways that families and family members make sense of both everyday and difficult events, create a sense of individual and group identity, remember, connect generations, and establish guidelines for family behavior. With so many important functions, storytelling is a significant but still understudied communicative process for the family.
Family Storytelling focuses on the ways in which stories are told in and about family in order to provide insight into the processes, functions, and consequences of family storytelling. This collection of empirical articles illuminates various ways in which family storytelling affects and reflects the negotiation of individual and relational identity in the family, teaches important family lessons, and helps members make sense of and cope with difficulty. Each of these functions is explored through both scientific and interpretive investigations, thus showcasing the contributions that research on family storytelling from different paradigms make to our understanding of the family.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Family Communication.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Family Storytelling?
Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects > Interdisciplinary studies > Communication studies
Where can I read a sample of Family Storytelling?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9781135704957
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Family Storytelling?
Jody Koenig Kellas
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
Family Storytelling is available as ebook(ISBN 9781135704957) and pdf(ISBN 9781135704889)