Featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field, The Handbook of Narrative Analysis is the first comprehensive collection of sociolinguistic scholarship on narrative analysis to be published.

• Organized thematically to provide an accessible guide for how to engage with narrative without prescribing a rigid analytic framework
• Represents established modes of narrative analysis juxtaposed with innovative new methods for conducting narrative research
• Includes coverage of the latest advances in narrative analysis, from work on social media to small stories research
• Introduces and exemplifies a practice-based approach to narrative analysis that separates narrative from text so as to broaden the field beyond the printed page