Interaction Analysis in Personal Experience Stories Told by Displaced Iraqi Kurdish Yazidi Females
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https://doi.org/10.25130/Lang.9.2.15Keywords:
Discourse analysis, narrative interaction, personal storiesAbstract
This study explores the cultural and social identities of the Yazidi women through their life personal experience stories. Ttheir personal experience stories are put under the lenses of this research in order to gain a rich and deep knowledge about the displaced Yazidi women and their cultural and social identities. This study adopts the mixed method approach to collect and analyze the data. The data of this study comprises personal experience stories and interview questions of their storytelling experiences. The results of the analysis show that the Yazidi women construct their cultural identities through using different linguistic choices. Concerning their social identities, these selected Yazidi women will not align themselves with the brutal attack against them and will construct their social identities accordingly.
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