The manner by which power is reified through newspaper reporting can assist community psychologists in getting a handle on the complex, often contradictory, ways by which ideology and power are constituted in relation to particular communities. Accordingly, the present study draws on discursive psychology to analyse how 377 newspaper articles construct the community of Thembelihle (a low-income community in South Africa) and how these constructions can inform counter-hegemonic strategy. Two discourses were identified in the analysis, Signifying Legitimacy and Containing the Protest Community. Where the Signifying Legitimacy discourse established a Statist legitimacy-illegitimacy binary against which Thembelihle was to be assessed, the Containing the Protest Community discourse constructed Thembelihle as a monolithic entity that enacted a wholly violent, and often directionless, mode of protest violence which was concerned with little more than ‘service delivery’. Together, these discourses suggest to us the manner by which low-income communities are engaged by the State as well as how Statist representations function materially. Certainly, most newspaper articles relied on an interpretive frame whose hermeneutics were characterised primarily by violence and homogenously experienced suffering. Such representation, we argue, signifies the dominant discursive field and ideology against which counter-hegemonic strategy and (re)presentation must act.

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报纸文章中社区的话语建构分析

通过报纸报道将权力具体化的方式可以帮助社区心理学家处理与特定社区相关的意识形态和权力构成的复杂的、往往相互矛盾的方式。因此，本研究利用话语心理学来分析 377 篇报纸文章如何构建 Thembelihle（南非的一个低收入社区）社区，以及这些构建如何为反霸权战略提供信息。分析中确定了两种话语，即“表示合法性”和“遏制抗议社区”。凡能指合法性话语建立了一个国家主义者的合法性-非法性二元论来评估 Thembelihle，包含抗议社区的话语将 Thembelihle 构建为一个单一的实体，它制定了一种完全暴力的、通常是无方向的抗议暴力模式，只关注“服务提供”。总之，这些话语向我们表明了低收入社区与国家交往的方式，以及国家代表如何发挥实质性作用。当然，大多数报纸文章都依赖于一种解释性框架，其解释学的主要特征是暴力和同质经历的痛苦。我们认为，这种表述意味着反霸权战略和（重新）表述必须与之对抗的占主导地位的话语领域和意识形态。这些话语向我们展示了低收入社区与国家交往的方式，以及国家代表如何发挥实质性作用。当然，大多数报纸文章都依赖于一种解释性框架，其解释学的主要特征是暴力和同质经历的痛苦。我们认为，这种表述意味着反霸权战略和（重新）表述必须与之对抗的占主导地位的话语领域和意识形态。这些话语向我们展示了低收入社区与国家交往的方式，以及国家代表如何发挥实质性作用。当然，大多数报纸文章都依赖于一种解释性框架，其解释学的主要特征是暴力和同质经历的痛苦。我们认为，这种表述意味着反霸权战略和（重新）表述必须与之对抗的主导话语领域和意识形态。