Presenting self and aligning as a team through narratives of victimhood among Kazakh-speaking village neighbors

IF 0.9 4区文学 Q3 COMMUNICATION

Narrative Inquiry Pub Date : 2020-10-29 DOI:10.1075/ni.19112.kul

Aisulu Kulbayeva

引用次数: 1

Abstract

This study illustrates how personal narratives of victimized self serve two Kazakh-speaking village neighbors to accomplish self-presentation during a mealtime interaction. Integrating Goffman’s (1959) theorization of self-presentation with narrative positioning (Bamberg, 1997; Schiffrin, 1996) and Muslim cultural practices (e.g., Al Zidjaly, 2006), this study conceptualizes mealtime conversations as frontstage and examines two victimhood narratives after providing the sequential overview of the twelve narratives occurred in the interaction. The analysis illustrates how linguistic construction of agentive and epistemic selves of the narrators position them as victims (whose personal items are stolen) in relation to other neighbors (who do the act of stealing) in the story world. This juxtaposition of “I” vs. “Others” in the story world allows the neighbor-tellers to present an idealized self (morally superior neighbors) and function as a team by getting lower hand and aligning with one another against a third party (morally wrong neighbors) in the interaction.

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通过讲哈萨克语的村庄邻居的受害者故事，展现自我并作为一个团队团结起来

这项研究说明了受害的自我叙述如何在用餐时间互动中为两位讲哈萨克语的村庄邻居提供自我介绍。本研究将Goffman（1959）的自我呈现理论与叙事定位相结合（Bamberg，1997；Schiffrin，1996）和穆斯林文化实践（例如，Al-Zidjaly，2006），将用餐时间的对话概念化为前台，并在提供互动中发生的十二种叙事的顺序概述后，考察了两种受害者叙事。该分析说明了叙述者的代理和认识自我的语言结构如何将他们定位为故事世界中与其他邻居（实施盗窃行为）相比的受害者（个人物品被盗）。在故事世界中，“我”与“其他人”的并置使讲邻居的人能够展现理想化的自我（道德上优越的邻居），并通过在互动中对第三方（道德上错误的邻居）采取低调和一致的态度来发挥团队的作用。

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2.10

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14.30%

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期刊介绍： Narrative Inquiry is devoted to providing a forum for theoretical, empirical, and methodological work on narrative. Articles appearing in Narrative Inquiry draw upon a variety of approaches and methodologies in the study of narrative as a way to give contour to experience, tradition, and values to next generations. Particular emphasis is placed on theoretical approaches to narrative and the analysis of narratives in human interaction, including those practiced by researchers in psychology, linguistics and related disciplines.