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Abstract
Presented here is an analytic framework for studying how people use time to communicate meaning in stories that express their evolving sense of identity. In interviews, 21 emerging adult men narrated their life-stories. Content Analysis (Leedy & Ormrod, 2001; Schwandt, 2001) was used to generate a taxonomy of time use in their stories. Among other techniques, time maps, a device invented for this study, illustrated ways individuals arranged story events in time. One finding was that temporal order was interlinked with the meaningfulness of the story; another was that time was used to maintain coherence in the stories.