NARRATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE KURDISH PERSONAL NARRATIVES

HALLAT RAJAB  EBRAHIM

doi:10.26682/hjuod.2020.23.1.3

HALLAT RAJAB EBRAHIM Dept.of English, College of Languages, University of Duhok, Kurdistan Region-Iraq

DOI: https://doi.org/10.26682/hjuod.2020.23.1.3

Keywords: Conversational stories, Narrative analysis, Moral stance, Moral positioning

Abstract

This study investigates the similarities and difference between the English and Kurdish conversational
stories told by Iraqi Kurdish bilingual speakers. Through the quantitative and qualitative analysis of the
data (20 hours audio-taped conversational stories told by five Kurdish bilingual speakers in Kurdish and
English), the self representation of the Kurdish speakers was examined through emphasizing the ways in
which the moral stance dimensions of the personal narratives are enacted in the Kurdish conversational
stories by using Labov (1972) and Ochs and Capps’s (2001) models of narrative analysis. The quantitative
analysis demonstrates that the Kurdish narrators almost use the same range of the evaluative devices in
both the Kurdish and English stories, but that they employ these with a varying extent. This variation has
provided the start point to identify the moral positioning by Kurdish bilingual speakers. The moral
positioning in this study prompts a range of distancing between the protagonists. The distancing identified
was Kurdish-Arabic. This indicated the racial tension between Kurds and Arabs, nominating the Kurdish
ethnic identity.

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