The construction of multiple identities in elderly narrators' stories
The construction of multiple identities in elderly narrators' stories
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老年叙述者故事中多重身份的建构
作者：
N. Norrick
老年说书人往往在一个单一的帐户范围内的痛苦，以代表多个过去的身份。这些身份中的一些可能是不相容的，比如当十几岁的地狱制造者改邪归正成为完美的家庭主妇，然后在她的丈夫去世后成为一个成功的商业女性。回顾性的重新评估来自于长期而多样的经验，因此成为年龄足够大的故事讲述者的自然资源，他们有时间重新评估事件。此外，对过去的人和地方的评论自动迫使讲述框架和叙事框架之间的转换;它们造成了这样的印象，即讲述者现在的身份并不能代表叙述者投射的身份的所有方面。此外，年长的叙述者会在自己的故事中插入他人的视角，比如一个寡妇会在正在进行的故事中明确地引入她已故丈夫的视角。年长的讲述者传达了他们投射之外的多重身份，他们的听众根据他们对过去的揭示以及他们如何从当前的角度反思过去，形成了对他们的看法，这也导致了多重身份的构建，有时是相互冲突的。本文分析了居住在印第安纳州的80岁以上老人讲述自己故事时的话语实践。
ABSTRACT Elderly storytellers are often at pains to represent multiple past identities even within the scope of a single account. Some of these identities may be incompatible, as when the teenage hell-raiser straightens out to become the perfect home-maker, and then after her husband dies becomes a successful business woman. Retrospective reassessment follows from long and varied experience, and hence becomes a natural resource for storytellers old enough to have had the time to re-evaluate events. Further, comments about people and places from the past automatically force a shift between the telling frame and the narrative frame; they create the impression that the teller's present identity is not representative of all aspects of the narrator's projected identity. In addition, elderly narrators insert others' perspectives into their stories, as when a widow explicitly introduces the perspective of her deceased husband into a story in progress. Elderly tellers convey multiple identities beyond what they project, and their listeners form opinions of them based both on what they reveal about their pasts and how they reflect on them from their current perspectives, and this also results in the construction of multiple and on occasion conflicting identities. This article reports an analysis of such discourse practices in stories told about themselves by people aged 80 or more years living in Indiana.