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Based on the theoretical framework offered by the Narrative Analysis, this work seeks to analyze narratives of the life histories of poor women who have experienced violent marital relationships, describing the ways in which these women operate discursively with certain normative aspects socially established, linked to "gender" crossings, "race" and "social class". We also observe how such crossings are articulated with contemporary social elements and systems, such as romantic love, religiosity, the value of work, meritocracy. In this way, especially in the "evaluations" of the narratives analyzed, we observe certain gender-based norms competing with new elements - such as the narrators' agency - characterized by establishing cracks on normative aspects, ratifying the position taken by Butler (2014) according which, although the category "gender" refers to the mechanism by which the notions of masculine and feminine are produced and naturalized, also puts these aspects in question, producing transformations in the generalized social conventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this study, we revisited Araújo's (2015) research on the relationship between the identities that protesters of June of 2013 claimed for themselves and the episodes of police violence. Our objective is to discuss the relations of our research with autoethnography. In order to do this, we will observe the interaction between researcher and research participants throughout the interviews. Based on a qualitative, interpretative perspective (DENZIN; LINCOLN, 2000) in contribution with the Narrative Analysis (BASTOS; BIAR, 2015), our understanding is that the research activities of 2015 have much in common with ethnography. The experiences of the first author are in alignment with the experiences of the interviewees (VERSIANI, 2005). Moreover, the joint interpretation of these experiences refers to an autoethnographic "us" (ELIS, 2004). This is how the participants of the 2013 events signify their actions, a movement that is constituted in one of the central questions of ethnography (COELHO, 2016). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Oriented by the interpretive paradigm in social sciences, especially ethnographic work, this article results from the analysis of an individual interview audio recorded in an NGO which assists morbid obese patients in Rio de Janeiro. Taking into account positioning theory and its presuppositions about the transient nature of meaning, we aim at investigating identity construction through the analysis of the stories an obese woman tells during an interview with one of the authors of this article. We argue that the way the body is understood nowadays is responsible for stigma towards fat individuals. In this sense, we have observed how such a situation is ratified or contested by means of discursive positions people take in interaction. We believe this movement is exactly where the transformative potential of language rests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing on the theoretical and methodological framework of narrative analysis, the aim of the present study was to investigate the performance of three women with aphasia during the storytelling of their stroke narratives. For that purpose, the analyses focused on the tellability of the narratives and the moral stance of the characters. These narratives were elicited using the focus group interview method and transcribed in accordance with the translation conventions of conversation analysts. The analyses revealed 1) the engagement of the storytellers in building the tellability of their narratives using a rich communicative repertoire, and 2) the rhetorical skills of the aphasic women in the construction of a positive self-image. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]