This paper examines how disaster-related discourses are produced in storytelling, and whether and in what way these discourses may change in the second telling. We examine two sets of retold stories taken from a corpus of 123 retold stories about the 2010/2011 Canterbury earthquakes in New Zealand. Findings indicate that these storytellers tell structurally similar stories, yet implement subtle linguistic changes which produce different positionings and discourses in the two tellings. We draw on positioning analysis and the ethnomethodological concept of tellability to show how, in the first telling, the storytellers orient to and produce discourses of united togetherness, whereas in the second telling they produce discourses of bravery and heroism. We argue that the positioning and discursive strategies used in disaster stories may change drastically over time, showing how retold stories of the same event change to meet the evolving realities of the teller and their post-disaster community.

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在重述的地震故事中，关于团结和英雄主义的话语不断转变


本文研究了与灾难相关的话语是如何在讲故事中产生的，以及这些话语是否以及以何种方式在第二次讲述中发生变化。我们研究了两组重述的故事，这些故事取自关于 2010/2011 年新西兰坎特伯雷地震的 123 个重述故事。研究结果表明，这些讲故事的人讲述结构相似的故事，但实施了微妙的语言变化，从而在两种讲述中产生了不同的定位和话语。我们借鉴了定位分析和可讲述性的民族方法论概念，展示了在第一次讲述中，讲故事的人如何定位并产生团结一致的话语，而在第二次讲述中，他们产生勇敢和英雄主义的话语。我们认为，灾难故事中使用的定位和话语策略可能会随着时间的推移而发生巨大变化，这表明同一事件的重述故事如何变化以适应讲述者及其灾后社区不断变化的现实。