An Analysis of Identity Construction in Interactional Narratives by Women with Turner Syndrome

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Research in Language Pub Date : 2020-12-30 DOI:10.18778/1731-7533.18.4.04

Kamila Ciepiela

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Abstract

The study aims to uncover and explore the social identities of women suffering from a genetic disorder called Turner syndrome (TS), and whose main symptoms are a short stature and gonadal dysgenesis. Such a genetically-determined physical appearance is argued to influence the positioning of TS women in the web of social relationships and identities. This linguistic analysis of narratives delivered by Polish women with TS in semi-structured interviews aims to explicate the extent to which they are actors or recipients in creating their own identities. The analysis draws on the assumptions of the ‘small story’ paradigm developed by Michael Bamberg (1997, 2005) who claims that in interaction, narrative is not only used to convey meaning, but also to construct the identities of the interlocutors. Thus, narrative is treated in a functional way, in which its formal structure and content are integrally associated with its use and any deviations are relativized as a consequence of a user’s deliberate activity.

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特纳综合征女性互动叙事中的身份建构分析

这项研究旨在揭示和探索患有特纳综合征（TS）遗传病的女性的社会身份，其主要症状是身材矮小和性腺发育不良。这种由基因决定的外表被认为会影响TS女性在社会关系和身份网络中的定位。这项对波兰TS女性在半结构化采访中讲述的故事的语言学分析旨在阐明她们在多大程度上是创造自己身份的行动者或接受者。该分析借鉴了Michael Bamberg（19972005）提出的“小故事”范式的假设，他声称在互动中，叙事不仅用于传达意义，还用于构建对话者的身份。因此，叙事是以一种功能性的方式来处理的，在这种方式中，它的形式结构和内容与它的使用是一体的，任何偏差都是由于用户的故意活动而相对化的。

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Research in Language Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： Research in Language (RiL) is an international journal committed to publishing excellent studies in the area of linguistics and related disciplines focused on human communication. Language studies, as other scholarly disciplines, undergo two seemingly counteracting processes: the process of diversification of the field into narrow specialized domains and the process of convergence, strengthened by interdisciplinarity. It is the latter perspective that RiL editors invite for the journal, whose aim is to present language in its entirety, meshing traditional modular compartments, such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and offer a multidimensional perspective which exposes varied but relevant aspects of language, e.g. the cognitive, the psychological, the institutional aspect, as well as the social shaping of linguistic convention and creativity.