Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2003. / Supervisor: Carl Blyth. Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Available also from UMI Company.

Diss.--Tu̇bingen. / Vita. Bibliography: p. 407-422.

Thesis (M.A.)--Ball State University, 2009. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Nov. 30, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 88-90).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Harding University Graduate School of Religion, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 243-256).

Habilitation - Universität, Hamburg. / Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-327) and indexes.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2003. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 173-178).

In this dissertation, I provide a discourse and narrative analysis of actual conflict talk episodes from mediation sessions that took place in a university conflict resolution center. Specifically, qualitative analytical methods are applied to five videotaped actual mediation sessions to (1) identify examples of the adversarial narrative pattern, pervasive in the literature, and (2) closely analyze the discourse in the cases where a different narrative pattern emerges to understand how these differing patterns are interactively co-constructed by the disputants and mediators. The literature in many fields contains research and theorizing on conflict, narrative, and numerous interaction variables in interpersonal conflict talk. However, the study of actual discourse within conflict events is relatively recent. Little empirical research explicates the situated communicative practices and mechanisms by which interlocutors interactively and emergently construct, resist, reproduce, and transform dispute narratives to produce outcomes consonant with their interests. This study applies microanalytic discourse analysis and narrative theory to examine how dispute narratives are interactively created in conflict talk episodes through work at the utterance level, including the manner in which narratives can be intertextually transformed through the interaction process. The findings herein illuminate the emergent nature of dispute narratives and some of the communicative practices and mechanisms disputants and mediators use to construct them. This study contributes to an understanding of the role of narratives in conflict talk and how narratives can be interactively constructed, co-constructed, challenged, and transformed in the course of a conflict talk event. / text

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In this study, differences between literary and digital storytelling are identified as a context for the issues explored within this thesis. I argue both the strengths and weaknesses of both the written and digital arratives. It is difficult to apply the same standards to two exceptionally different genres, but it is the truest way to compare and contrast the two. I will examine a few of the studies that have already been done that are similar and some of the assertions they have concluded. / Storytelling : past and present -- An objective comparison of narrative -- Literary and digital narrative -- Digital media and the digital narrative -- Objective and subjective issues. / Department of Telecommunications