“我们”与“他们”:社会角色在多元话语中的建构

The Construction of Social Identity in Multi-party Discourse

本文选择电视访谈、辩论赛和法庭辩论三种类型的语篇,以功能语言学的人际意义模型为主要分析框架,研究说话人的话语角色与交际任务如何影响其在多元话语语境中社会角色的建构。研究发现,说话者不仅会明确地在话语中建立"我们"与"他们"两个群体,同时也会动态地重建相互关系,努力拉近与他者的距离;说话人对他者关系的重建程度与他所承担的交际任务与话语角色有比较明确的关系。

To investigate the impact of the speaker’s discourse role and communicative task on his construction of social identity in the multi-party discourse,this paper chooses three types of discourse： television interview,debate and courtroom trial. On the basis of the interpersonal model of systemic functional linguistics,it conducts a detailed discourse analysis and pinpoints the following： first,remarkable as the constructed opposition of WE and THEY is,the boundary between them is blurred as discourse unfolds; second,the tendency to align the THEY on the part of the speaker varies in accordance with his communicative task and discourse role.