Estilos narrativos e pertença social: análise de histórias de vida

Abstract

Narrative styles and social identity: life stories analisys. This paper concerns the relationships between experience and oral communication. Basicaly, it focuses two themes: a) the narrative styles and its connection with social identity and b) the adequacy of the life stories and testemonies to comprehend how social identity and relationship with tradition are related in a oral community. Oral repports are analised taken from two females community members of Cachoeira do Guilherme located in south coast of São Paulo. Interpretation of life stories and testemonies revels: 1) the existence of a critical narrative style, associeted to social marginal experience and to a problematic relationship among traditional contents from a group culture, and 2) a traditional narrative style associeted to maintenancy of groupal cohesion that embodies the testemonies of both narraters.