Hidden Stories in Monologues

• Main Authors: Dariusz Kuncewicz, Dorota Kuncewicz
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: FQS 2019-01-01
• Series: Forum: Qualitative Social Research
• Subjects: narratives; monologues; hidden stories; qualitative analysis; rules of speech
• Online Access: http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/3005

In this article, we present a procedure for isolating a hidden story from a monologue on an assigned topic. We define a hidden story as a story about the author's own life, accessible to the recipient of a monologue indirectly—by inference—on the basis of the rules of language use, verifiable in linguistics and literary theory. The procedure involves four stages: 1. preparing the recording and transcription of a monologue; 2. isolating and analyzing linguistically and/or narratively out-of-key elements in a monologue; 3. making a conclusion about hidden content on the basis of out-of-key elements and their contexts; 4. formulating a hidden story. We focus mainly on explaining the mechanisms of linguistic and narrative distinguishability of elements in a monologue, and describing, "step by step," consecutive stages of the procedure.