Don Decker

Don Decker's Apache Odyssey. Approaches to Autobiography, Narrative, and the Developing Self

Contents: This volume makes available the entire autobiographical account of an Apache man as a database for the subsequent narrative analyses. The life story reveals an individual who has experienced radical social changes, and his account provides clues for his struggles to make sense of what has happened to him as well as his attempts to prevent his life from falling apart. The reconstructive processes of his past reveal socio-collective frames, cultural themes and cultural styles of expression. The intended audience includes sociolinguists, narrative analysts, psycholinguists, conversation analysts, and cultural semanticists. The Editors: Guillermo Bartelt teaches linguistics at California State University, Northridge. His research has focused on American Indian English. Baerbel Treichel is currently visiting professor at the University of Erfurt, Germany, teaching English Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. Her research interests include language and culture contact, European identity constructions and biography analysis.