Narrative Identity in Personal Experience Stories Told by Displaced Iraqi Kurdish Yazidi Females

Hasan, Rejan Mustafa; Muhammad, Izzulddin Rajab

doi:10.25130/Lang.9.3.P1.11

	Narrative Identity in Personal Experience Stories Told by Displaced Iraqi Kurdish Yazidi Females
Journal of Language Studies
Volume 9, Issue 3, Part 1, September 2025, Pages 203-221 PDF (685.31 K)
Document Type: Original Article
DOI: 10.25130/Lang.9.3.P1.11
Authors
Rejan Mustafa Hasan¹; Izzulddin Rajab Muhammad²
¹English Department, College of Languages, University of Duhok
²Translation Department, College of Languages, University of Duhok
Abstract
This paper explores the cultural and social identities of the Yazidi women through analyzing their life experience stories. This study explores the storytelling patterns of three Yazidi Kurdish women who have been displaced from the Shingali community. It employs a qualitative methodology to shed light on their experiences during the migration in 2014. The data was gathered from individuals residing in the Khanki camp located in Duhok city. The analysis reveals that the Yazidi women construct their cultural identities through using different linguistic choices and different types of story genres and topics. Also, the selected participants tell a certain type of story genre more than others. In this case, they tell more exempla than other types of story genres as exempla highlight the moral stances of the tellers through which they can construct their social and ideological identities.
Keywords
discourse analysis; narrative identity; Yazidi women

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