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Like migration, telling stories has always been an essential component of the human condition. In this book I engage with writers who have been motivated to tell their stories. Sometimes, I have had the privilege of conducting life-narrative interviews with selected authors. At other times, I have made use of their published memoirs. Essentially I am relying on stories in both written and oral formats. But are stories a legitimate and reliable source of information on language identity? How can we be sure that the authors are actually telling the ‘truth’ and does the language they speak filter or cloud their memories? Unless we can answer these questions in a satisfactory manner, one could hardly regard this form of research as sustainable or legitimate.
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© 2012 Máiréad Nic Craith
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Craith, M.N. (2012). Narrative Journeys. In: Narratives of Place, Belonging and Language. Language and Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230355514_2
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