Telling stories : language narrative and social life ; [the 2008 Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT 2008) was held March 14 16] Introduction Deborah Schiffrin and Anna De Fina Where Should I begin William Labov The remediation of storytelling : Narrative performance on early commercial sound recordings Richard Bauman Narrative culture and mind Jerome Bruner Positioning as a metagrammar for discursive story lines Rom Harré Ay ay vienen estos juareños : on the positioning of selves through code switching by second generation immigrant college students Alan D. Hansen ...[et al.] A tripartite self construction model of identity Leor Cohen Narratives of reputation : layerings of social and spatial identities Gabriella Modan and Amy Shuman Identity building through narratives on a Tulu call in TV show Malavika Shetty Blank check for biography : openness and ingenuity in the management of the who am I question and what life stories actually may not be good for Michael Bamberg Reflection and self disclosure from the small stories perspective : a study of identity claims in interview and conversational data Alexandra Georgakopoulou Negotiating deviance : identity trajectories and norms in a graffitists interview narrative Jarmila Mildorf Interaction and narrative structure in dementia Lars Christer Hydén and Linda Örulv Concurrent and intervening actions during storytelling in family ceremonial dinners Jenny Mandelbaum Truth and authorship in textual trajectories Isolda E. Carranza Legitimation and the heteroglossic nature of closing arguments Laura Felton Rosulek Multimodal storytelling and identity construction in graphic narratives David Herman The role of style shifting in the functions and purposes of storytelling : detective stories in anime Fumiko Nazikian