Abstract Given that narratives are social products in function of the audience, genre of writing, purpose, and social histories and social memberships of the people who create them (Labov, 2006 [1966]), this study explores the role context plays in understanding and producing language and narrative. Specifically, I focus on the impact that genre and social history have on sense-making with the aim of demonstrating the contextual (as opposed to inherent and stable) nature of psychological functions. Adolescents from contrasting socioeconomic backgrounds around New York City were instructed to retell a story centered around injustice from the perspectives of the self, object, and subject of injustice, using different genres of writing, addressed at different audiences. I will demonstrate the shifts in narrative strategies used as a function of the writing genre, as well as how these shifts vary across two differently privileged socioeconomic groups.

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我们玩的叙事游戏：不同类型和社会经济地位的叙事策略的不同使用

摘要 鉴于叙事是受众功能、写作体裁、目的、社会历史和创造它们的人的社会成员资格的社会产品（Labov，2006 [1966]），本研究探讨了语境在理解和理解中所起的作用。产生语言和叙事。具体来说，我关注流派和社会历史对意义建构的影响，目的是展示心理功能的情境（而不是固有的和稳定的）性质。来自纽约市不同社会经济背景的青少年被要求从自我、客体和不公正的主体的角度，使用不同的写作体裁，针对不同的受众，重述一个以不公正为中心的故事。