Narrative studies have witnessed a growing interest towards positioning analyses and the analysis of master and counter-narratives. While the former tends to prefer a small story approach and to draw on Conversation Analysis and Discourse Analysis, the latter engages in a variety of methodological approaches and works with narratives of several sizes, often within institutional and political contexts. Counter-narrative is a positional category by name, and it has recently been brought together with positioning analysis in the study of oral narratives. However, the narrative nature of master narratives, as well as their conceptual distinction from dominant discourses, remains largely unaddressed. This article aims at placing master narratives within narrative theory. To that end, we consider the three analytical levels of narrative positioning in terms of master and counter-narratives. By analysing an interview with a 92-year-old Finnish woman, we argue for the empirical relevance of master and counter-narratives within positioning analysis.

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定位与主叙事和反叙事

叙事研究见证了人们对定位分析以及主叙事和反叙事的分析越来越感兴趣。前者倾向于采用小故事方法并利用对话分析和话语分析，而后者则采用多种方法论方法，并使用多种规模的叙事，通常是在制度和政治背景下。反叙事是一个按名称命名的位置类别，最近在口头叙事研究中与定位分析结合在一起。然而，主叙事的叙事性质，以及它们与主流话语的概念区别，在很大程度上仍未得到解决。本文旨在将主要叙事置于叙事理论中。为此，我们从主叙事和反叙事的角度考虑叙事定位的三个分析层次。通过分析对一位 92 岁芬兰女性的采访，我们论证了定位分析中主叙事和反叙事的经验相关性。