Conclusions: Narrative Revelations

Abstract

This chapter discusses the main conclusions of this study, focusing on three main “revelations” this piece of narrative research has put forward. First, the revelation about how narrative is one of the most powerful language practices human beings have for making sense of the world they inhabit and the particular emotional experiences they deal with everyday. Second, how the multidimensionality of narratives and particular storytelling practices, such as the ones described in this study, go beyond local contexts of storytelling and extend to global ones, namely how narratives of language experiences can offer an insight into other migration contexts. Finally, how sociolinguistic analyses of narratives can bring to light issues of identity and morality about the particular situation experienced by narrators and protagonists, in this case Mexican immigrant women’s contestation of the racialized social place they inhabit.