Publications

Publication details [#14619]

Blommaert, Jan. 2001. Investigating narrative inequality: African asylum seekers' stories in Belgium. Discourse & Society 12 (4) : 413–449.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contextualization | institutional language | narrative

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This article reports on three apects of narrative inequality in interviews with African asylum seekers in Belgium: the availability of linguistic–communicative resources, the contextualization of so-called 'home narratives' and the nature of the asylum procedure.