This article examines how a professional group articulates views of the new laws and institutions that call them to accept new practices and new meaning in the name of the ecological common good. Drawing on a framework integrating the approach of social representations and rhetorical social psychology with legal institutionalism, we analyze in-depth interviews and focus groups (n = 29) with artisanal fishers. We explore how fishers use reported speech, that is, the quotation of others or self in own discourse, for building representations of Self, institutional-Others and their relations, examining also the values and dimensions of citizenship they mobilize with it. We show how fishers consistently use reported speech for presenting a negative institutional-Other acting in disrespect of the civil and political dimensions of citizenship, and a positive Self acting as a competent citizen – although rarely as a good ecological citizen. We discuss how focusing on reported speech by drawing on a theorization of how the institutional dimension interacts with the micro-level of interaction and discourse extends current comprehension of how contestation of the new meaning embedded in new laws can be warranted and maintained.

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与缺席的他者对话：使用报道的演讲和公民词汇来对抗生态法律和制度

本文考察了一个专业团体如何表达对新法律和制度的看法，这些法律和制度要求他们以生态共同利益的名义接受新的做法和新的含义。利用将社会表征和修辞社会心理学方法与法律制度主义相结合的框架，我们分析了与手工渔民的深入访谈和焦点小组（n = 29）。我们探索渔民如何使用报告的言语，即在自己的话语中引用他人或自我，来构建自我、制度-他人及其关系的表征，并检查他们用它动员的公民身份的价值观和维度。我们展示了渔民如何始终如一地使用报道的言论来呈现负面的制度——其他不尊重公民的公民和政治层面的行为，积极的自我作为一个称职的公民——尽管很少作为一个好的生态公民。我们讨论如何通过利用制度维度如何与互动和话语的微观层面相互作用的理论来关注报告的言论，从而扩展当前对新法律中嵌入的新含义的争论如何得到保证和维持的理解。