作为话语的“XX民工”:新中产阶层的网络话语叙事与自我认同

"XX laborer"as Discourse:Internet Discourse Narratives and Self-identity of the New Middle Class

文章关注了网络空间中"我是XX民工"现象,分析了其网络叙事特征,以及背后的新中产阶层泛弱势化心态与自我身份认同。溯源历史可发现,既是一种身份也是一种职业的"民工",在话语上经历了从"国家主人公"到"城市建设主力军"再到"弱势群体"的三段式滑落。民工话语是新中产阶层对"民工"标签的借用和再生产,此标签不仅吸引了具有同样遭遇的个体实现集体共鸣,而且还对特定"光鲜"行业具有"去魅"效果。"XX民工"是因使用者自我标签为低阶层与实属中产阶层而出现认同错位的一场网络文化表演,因而话语使用者的自我认同呈现"表里如一"和"表里不一"两种倾向。

The article focuses on the phenomenon of"I am an XX laborer"in cyberspace,analyzes its narrative characteristics and the pan-weakness mentality and self-identity of the new middle class.History shows that"laborer"is both an identity and a profession,which has experienced three stages,declined from the"national hero"to the"main force of urban construction"and finally to the"disadvantaged group".The production of laborer discourses comes from borrowing the label of"laborer"by the new middle class.This label not only attracts individuals who have the same experience to achieve collective resonance,but also achieves the effect of"disenchanting"specific"glamorous"industries."XX laborer"is an online cultural performance in which the middle-class users label themselves as the low class and the middle class,the self-identity of laborer discourses users showing two tendencies of"being the same"and"different".