Questioning Chinese government officials on a live broadcast TV program: shifted second-person pronouns and journalists’ stance and identity

IF 0.8 3区 文学 Q3 COMMUNICATION
Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-08-11 DOI:10.1515/text-2020-0224
Yan Zhou
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Abstract It has been recognized that Mandarin speakers use the neutral form (ni) and the honorific form (nin) of second-person pronouns to refer to others based on the social distance and power dynamics between the speakers. Drawing on eighteen hours of journalist-government official conversations in live broadcast TV programs, this study shows that the journalists often shift between the two forms of second-person pronouns when referring to government officials and that the shifts in the two directions appear in different sequential environments. Incorporating the stance triangle model and membership categorization devices, the findings reveal that the shifts indicate changes in the journalists’ self-categorization and their evaluative stances toward the officials in the conversation. The shift from nin to ni tends to occur in the main actions where the interviewer has previously displayed a positive stance but shifts to a negative stance while holding the official accountable; the shift from ni to nin is often used rhetorically to help construct the inconsistencies and self-contradictions of the officials, which also indicates a negative stance.
在电视直播节目中向中国政府官员提问:第二人称代词的转换和记者的立场和身份
摘要普通话使用者根据社会距离和权力动态,使用第二人称代词的中性形式(ni)和敬语形式(nin)来指称他人。通过对18个小时的电视直播节目中记者与政府官员对话的分析,本研究表明,记者在提及政府官员时经常在两种第二人称代词之间转换,并且这种转换出现在不同的顺序环境中。结合立场三角模型和成员分类工具,研究结果表明,这些变化表明记者的自我分类和对谈话官员的评价立场发生了变化。从n到ni的转变往往发生在面试官之前表现出积极立场的主要行为中,但在要求官员负责的情况下,他们的立场转变为消极立场;从“尼”到“尼”的转变经常被用于修辞上,以帮助构建官员的不一致和自我矛盾,这也表明了一种消极的立场。
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期刊介绍: Text & Talk (founded as TEXT in 1981) is an internationally recognized forum for interdisciplinary research in language, discourse, and communication studies, focusing, among other things, on the situational and historical nature of text/talk production; the cognitive and sociocultural processes of language practice/action; and participant-based structures of meaning negotiation and multimodal alignment. Text & Talk encourages critical debates on these and other relevant issues, spanning not only the theoretical and methodological dimensions of discourse but also their practical and socially relevant outcomes.
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