Автобиографичният разказ в слово и визия
Autobiographic Narratives – Verbal and Visual Aspects

Summary/Abstract: The article is based on presenting analysis of autobiographical narratives derived by fieldwork interviews done in diverse communicative situations and in a considerably large time span. It is aimed at investigating the visual images used in narrating about identification and their variety determined by the individual preferences of the interviewees and the particular contexts of narration. Nevertheless there could clearly be pointed out some stable tendencies. For example the mutual confession tends to be orally visualized by words and conceptual images of churches, families and genealogies. The interviewees often narrate about obeying the traditions relating it to particular objects. As a whole, the visual records of he interviews show that the verbal and the action production connected with self-presentations actively uses object connotations. Thus Easter ritual bread and eggs stand for the Easter festivities and rituals. Traditional food and its technology of preparing are the basis on which the family relations model has been built upon, both in traditional and non-traditional Bulgarian culture. The church as a “second home” is conceptually doubled in the very home space (little “altar”, photos, tourist souvenirs). Narrating about one’s own self uses all those images as markers of similarity and difference. The forms used to narrate about such identifications are diverse and strongly rely on the visual images and on pointing out to real object.

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