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About the book >.>.> Defined debates on conflicting approaches within the field and how to balance them as there are for example in the highly epistemologically-contested field of discourse analysis. In addition unlike other qualitative research perspectives narrative research offers no overall rules about suitable materials or modes of investigation or the best level at which to study stories. It does not tell us whether to look for stories in recorded everyday speech interviews diaries tv programmes or newspaper articles; whether to aim for objectivity or researcher and participant involvement; whether to analyse stories’ particularity or generality: or what epistemological significance to attach to narratives. Despite these difficulties many of us who work with narratives want to continue and develop this work. Most often perhaps we frame our research in terms of narrative because we believe that by doing so we are able to see different and sometimes contradictory layers of meaning to bring them into useful dialogue with each other and to understand more about individual and social change. (LL)