Undercommunicated Stories in Boundary Building Processes

This text focuses on the narrations of Romani in Czech Republic with regard to conversational topics which are usually not communicated either conversations across group borders or media. The covered these range from everyday life issues and stories about success employment experiences during powerful moments state’s history that resonate for all its inhabitants. narratives analysed this include experience invasion Czechoslovakia 1968 adventures a boys who tried illegally cross state border socialism. interviews were filmed camera. From methodological perspective, an interesting feature throughout project was narrators did stress their identity. dominant tone rather plain interpersonal communication. Thus, can be characterised as acts communication – mode interaction is common Roma non-Roma emphasize shared overall context inhabitants find themselves.