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This chapter focuses on how a narrative approach can develop understandings of the ways in which professionals make sense of their experience and themselves over time, not despite the challenges and complexities they encounter having relocated to live and work, but because of them. Taking Riessman’s (Narrative methods for the human sciences. Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA, 2008) ‘dialogic/performance’ approach, I focus on the dynamic languaging practices with which these professionals create and communicate meaning and present their professional selves as having the necessary expertise to work with others in contemporary linguistic and cultural diversity. This approach considers how such meanings and ways of thinking about the self are inextricably shot through with social, historical and cultural voices across time and space.
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O’Neill, F. (2020). Why a Narrative Study?. In: The Intercultural Professional. Communicating in Professions and Organizations. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52531-6_3
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