Exploring the Autobiography as a Genre and a Data Collection Tool

The book aims at providing researchers and teachers in different disciplines, such as literature, culture studies, and applied linguistics, a deeper understanding of autobiographies both as a genre and a data collection method. The book presents a variety of forms of autobiographies produced in varied fields including confessional poems, politicians’ autobiographies, and autobiographical novels. Unique among those autobiographies are those that are produced in the field of education, namely foreign language education. The richness of the studies reported in the chapters lies in the wide variety of the qualitative and quantitative analytical tools borrowed from different disciplines, mainly from Applied Linguistics and Ethnography. Authors deployed Conceptual Metaphor Analysis, Appraisal Theory, Multimodality Analysis, Generic analysis, and Content Analysis.