“We Were Not at School Today”: First-Person Pronouns and Discursive Construction of Identities by Emerging Middle-Class Chinese Parents  

第一人称代词与中国新兴中产阶级年轻父母身份的话语建构(英文)

作　　者：Yanmei Han Jianping Chen 韩艳梅;陈建平(广东外语外贸大学)

机构地区：[1]Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

出　　处：《Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics》2019年第3期285-306,400,共23页中国应用语言学（英文）

基　　金：a part of the Chinese MOE Key Research Project of Humanities and Social Science (Project No.: 16JJD740006) conducted by the Centre for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

摘　　要：In the process of China’s dynamic social changes over the past decades, the young-parent identity construction of an emerging middle class and the resulting changes of social-cultural values in this context have attracted the attention of academic research in recent years. With the focus on the discursive construction of parent identity, this study examines the utilization of first-person pronouns in three different interactional contexts, namely, parent-teacher interaction, parent-parent interaction, and parent-child interaction. The study further explores the patterns of alignment between the parents and their children, parents and teachers of their children, and peer parents during the process of identity construction, followed by a discussion of the implication that young, emerging middleclass Chinese parents fundamentally shape themselves as "concerned" and "involved" parents and the change of values between collectivity and agency. The study not only demonstrates the dynamic and pluralistic nature of parent identity but also deepens our understanding of the indexical roles of first-person pronouns in the discursive construction of emerging middle-class Chinese parent identity and its relationship with the recent social-cultural changes in the Chinese context.在当今中国的社会变迁过程中,新兴中产阶级年轻父母的身份建构及其反映出的价值观变化是学界关注的研究热点之一。本文试图从身份话语建构研究入手,重点考察父母在三种语境中如何借助第一人称代词在语篇中建构身份:父母-教师互动语境、父母-父母互动语境、父母-孩子互动语境。文章对不同语境中建构的不同的父母身份以及父母、孩子、教师和其他父母之间的互动关系模式进行了深入探讨,对中国新兴中产阶级年轻父母建构的"关心孩子","积极参与"的父母形象背后所折射的"集体主义"与"个人能动性"价值观之间的"变"与"不变"展开讨论,突出了父母身份的动态性和多元性,深化了人们对第一人称代词在身份话语建构中的指标性作用的理解,并进一步增强人们对中国新兴中产阶级年轻父母身份建构与社会变迁互动关系的认识。

关 键 词：collectivity agency first-person pronouns parent identity construction emerging middle-class 

分 类 号：H314.2[语言文字—英语]