Given the fact that being vegan is generally considered odd or deviant from the mainstream norms of carnism, we examine how vegans manage such social positioning in their dealings with omnivores. This article employs a discursive analysis of vegans’ narratives of problematic moments with omnivores and how they manage such situations and their identity. The vegans’ narratives ranged from problem stories where some troublesome event occurred, but was not resolved, to solution stories of the best ways of dealing with meat eaters. In each case, being vegan is a social positioning that is problematized in various ways and a positioning that needs to be accounted for. The narrators give voice to themselves or others through the discursive practices of metadiscourse and reported speech in constructing the problem story. Vegans face the ideological dilemma in how to speak about their veganism as choice of diet, for environmental reasons or ethical considerations.

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素食主义者的问题故事：在与杂食动物打交道时协商素食主义者的身份

鉴于素食主义者通常被认为是奇怪的或偏离肉食主义的主流规范，我们研究了素食主义者在与杂食动物打交道时如何管理这种社会定位。本文对纯素食者对杂食动物问题时刻的叙述以及他们如何处理这种情况及其身份进行了话语分析。素食主义者的叙述范围从发生了一些麻烦事件但没有解决的问题故事到与肉食者打交道的最佳方法的解决方案故事。在每种情况下，纯素食者都是一种以各种方式被质疑的社会定位，也是一种需要考虑的定位。叙述者通过元话语的话语实践和在构建问题故事时报告的演讲来表达自己或他人的声音。