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Evaluation in childbirth narratives told by women and men

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ENGLAND IN BIRMINGHAM, ruth.page{at}uce.ac.uk

This article explores the characteristics of narratives told by women and men about the birth of children. The comparison focuses on the way speakers use evaluation devices to structure their experiences and to negotiate a relationship with their audience. Findings indicate that, while there are subtle contrasts between the narratives that suggest that male speakers emphasize informative meaning and women provoke an affectual response related to the disclosure of internalized expectations, there are significant macro-level similarities with both women and men making use of anecodotal structures. It is argued that understanding these similarities and dissimilarities in terms of gender difference alone is overly simplistic and that gender should be understood as interacting in complex ways with a range of further potential variables connected with context.

Key Words: anecdote • context • difference • gender • narrative • solidarity

Discourse Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1, 99-116 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/14614456020040010501


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