This paper explores the cultural and social identities of the Yazidi women through analyzing their life experience stories. This study explores the storytelling patterns of three Yazidi Kurdish women who have been displaced from the Shingali community. It employs a qualitative methodology to shed light on their experiences during the migration in 2014. The data was gathered from individuals residing in the Khanki camp located in Duhok city. The analysis reveals that the Yazidi women construct their cultural identities through using different linguistic choices and different types of story genres and topics. Also, the selected participants tell a certain type of story genre more than others. In this case, they tell more exempla than other types of story genres as exempla highlight the moral stances of the tellers through which they can construct their social and ideological identities.
Hasan,R M and Muhammad,I R . (2025). Narrative Identity in Personal Experience Stories Told by Displaced Iraqi Kurdish Yazidi Females. Journal of Language Studies, 9(Issue 3, Part 1), 203-221. doi: 10.25130/Lang.9.3.P1.11
MLA
Hasan,R M , and Muhammad,I R . "Narrative Identity in Personal Experience Stories Told by Displaced Iraqi Kurdish Yazidi Females", Journal of Language Studies, 9, Issue 3, Part 1, 2025, 203-221. doi: 10.25130/Lang.9.3.P1.11
HARVARD
Hasan R M, Muhammad I R. (2025). 'Narrative Identity in Personal Experience Stories Told by Displaced Iraqi Kurdish Yazidi Females', Journal of Language Studies, 9(Issue 3, Part 1), pp. 203-221. doi: 10.25130/Lang.9.3.P1.11
CHICAGO
R M Hasan and I R Muhammad, "Narrative Identity in Personal Experience Stories Told by Displaced Iraqi Kurdish Yazidi Females," Journal of Language Studies, 9 Issue 3, Part 1 (2025): 203-221, doi: 10.25130/Lang.9.3.P1.11
VANCOUVER
Hasan R M, Muhammad I R. Narrative Identity in Personal Experience Stories Told by Displaced Iraqi Kurdish Yazidi Females. JLS. 2025;9(Issue 3, Part 1):203-221. doi: 10.25130/Lang.9.3.P1.11
