危机与抗争:老年身份的媒介生产与话语批判

Crisis and Struggle: Media Production and Discourse Criticism of Elderly Identity

“银发浪潮”来的同时,社会呈现出人口老龄化与“老年污名化”并轨的文化症候,老年认同出现危机。文章以构成主义为立场,将老年身份视为媒介建构的产物,以批判话语理论为进路,研究老年何以成为今日之老年,即其身份在媒介话语场域下如何进行意义生产,并实现从年龄身份到弱者身份再到“坏老人”的身份转向。通过对危机之下老人不“老”的抗争话语进行批判分析,揭示媒介、话语与身份的权力交织,以期探究老龄社会下老年身份的解困。

"Silver hair wave" is coming and the elderly are gradually becoming the main body of the population in the aging society. At the same time, the society presents a cultural symptom of population aging and "stigmatization of old age", and the identity of old age is in crisis. The article takes constructivism as the standpoint, regards "old age" as a product of cultural construction, and adopts critical discourse theory as an approach to study why the image of the elderly becomes today’s "old age" representation, that is, how their identity produces meaning in different discourse fields and the transformation from "age status" to "weak status" to "bad old man" is happened. Through a critical analysis of the "old age" protest discourse under the crisis, it reveals the power interweaving of discourse and identity, in order to explore the problem of "old age" identity in an aging society.