社会认知视角下老年人自我表征与集体认同——以《中国老年报》为例

A Socio-cognition Approach to the Self-representation and Collective Identity of Older People Based on China Elderly Journal

随老龄化进程加快,大众媒体对老年人报道视角大有不同,老年人认同由此呈现多元化。研究以《中国老年报》为语料,采用批评话语研究中的社会认知研究方法,借鉴Koller集体身份话语研究范式,通过中国老年人自我表征来探讨其集体认同的建构。研究发现老年人自我表征中呈现多元趋势,从整体上塑造一个人老心未老、拼搏进取、爱党爱国的集体认同,通过词汇选择、语义移动、情态词等话语形式来达到意识形态方阵作为整体策略的目的,进而实现积极的自我表征和消极的他者表征的功能,借此表明家庭责任观、亲情观以及利己主义等意识形态会对其心理认知产生影响,而政治、经济以及文化是影响报纸媒体话语中老年人集体身份自我表征的重要社会因素。

In the presence of population aging,mass media adopts various perspectives in reporting older people to demonstrate diverse group identities.Based on the socio-cognitive approach of critical discourse analysis and Koller’s collective identity research paradigm,the present research attempts to explore the discursive construction of the older people with China Elderly Journal as corpus.The results suggest that the self-representation of older people exhibits diverse features and globally shapes their collective identity of optimistic life,strong will to learn,dedication to the course of Communist Party and patriotism.In the process of self-representation,older people manage to adopt the ideological square as an overall strategy by employing lexical choices,semantics move,modality etc.to lead to the positive self-representation and negative other representation and reveal the influence of the ideology,such as family responsibility,familial affection,egoism on mental cognition.Politics,economy and culture are the leading social factors to determine the self-representation of older people’s collective identity in newspaper discourses.