1. The Sociolinguistics of Narrative: Identity, performance, culture (by Thornborrow, Joanna); 2. Narrative as a resource in accounts of the experience of illness (by Cheshire, Jenny); 3. Storying East-German pasts: Memory discourses and narratives of readjustment on the German/Polish and former German/German border (by Armbruster, Heidi); 4. Narrative demands, cultural performance and evaluation: Teenage boys' stories for their age-peers (by Coupland, Nikolas); 5. Masculinity, collaborative narration and the heterosexual couple (by Coates, Jennifer); 6. Contextualizing and recontextualizing interlaced stories in conversation (by Norrick, Neal R.); 7. Hearing Voices: Evasion and self-disclosure in a man's narratives of alcohol addiction (by Leith, Dick); 8. Modes of meaning making in young children's conversational storytelling (by Blum-Kulka, Shoshana); 9. Two systems of mutual engagement: The co-construction of gendered narrative styles by American preschoolers (by Sheldon, Amy); 10. Narrative and the construction of professional identity in the workplace (by Holmes, Janet); 11. Telling stories and giving evidence: The hybridisation of narrative and non-narrative modes of discourse in a sexual assault trial (by Harris, Sandra J.); 12. Television news and narrative: How relevant are narrative models for explaining the coherence of television news? (by Montgomery, Martin); 13. Performing theories of narrative: Theorising narrative performance (by Threadgold, Terry); 14. References; 15. Index