As part of a discourse analysis research project on the representation of prison life as discursively constructed by prisoners (ex-VRP project, led by F. Pugnière-Saavedra, UBS), they were interviewed within semi-structured interviews in prisons. Those interviews were structured around four themes: their experience as an individual in the prison organization, their reception of judicial activity, their relations with the other actors in prison life (fellow prisoners, guards, etc.) and finally, their emotional experience of the prison experience. Twenty-three interviews were thus conducted (i.e. a recording duration of 15h hours and 48 minutes), which included, on numerous occasions, the introduction by the prisoners of "small stories" (Georgakopoulou, 2006; Bamberg, Georgakopoulou, 2008) which aim to draw an alternative representation of one-self outside the prison experience. In this paper, we propose to analyse the implementation of this storytelling by insisting on the mechanisms of integration of these narratives into the interviews (introduction and closure) by relying on lexical, syntactic and macro-syntactic clues, and on the pragmatic aim of these insertions into the talk-in-interaction, episodes that were not foreseen but authorised by the research protocol.
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