The narrative of abuse in Sesotho

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT:This study examines data from account-giving in Sesotho. Am account-making processaccording to Warren (1989), is more like a life in motion in which individual charactersare portrayed as moving through their experiences, dealing with some problem in theirlives and at the same time diligently searching for a resolution. It is then this quest tounderstand the major stresses in each individual's mind that is at the core of this study.The reasons that lead to the result of the daily experiences of destitution, depression,death, disability etc, are also addressed here.Narrative accounts form the basis of moral and social events and as such, stories havetwo elements through which they are explored. They are explored firstly in the way inwhich they are told and secondly, in the way they are lived in the social context. Thesestories follow a historically or culturally based format, and to this effect, Gergen (1994)posited narrative criteria that constitute a historically contingent narrative form. Narrativeforms are linguistic tools that have important social functions to satisfactorily fulfil suchneeds as stability narrative, progressive narrative and regressive narrative.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University