Abstract In this study I examine a corpus of former refugee narratives published by the nonprofit Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) on their website in 2011. In order to investigate the relationship between the constituent parts and the narrative as a whole, I use critical discourse analysis to examine the strategic use of person, quantified temporal phrases, broader thematic elements, and the constitution of “former refugee narrative” as a genre. I conclude that the RCOA dominates temporality and maintains authority over the narratives through specifically applied quantification yet captures the necessary subjective and emotional material of the refugee experience to achieve the authenticity the co-narratives need to be well-received by the public. Thus, by manipulating hermeneutic composability, the RCOA evidences an objective, authoritative portrayal yet captures a subjective experience worth telling, and by manipulating intertextual gaps they appeal to the Australian nationalism implicit in the contemporary political climate.

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摘要 在这项研究中，我检查了非营利性澳大利亚难民委员会 (RCOA) 于 2011 年在其网站上发布的前难民叙事语料库。为了调查组成部分与整个叙事之间的关系，我使用了批判性话语分析以检查人的战略使用，量化的时间短语，更广泛的主题元素以及“前难民叙事”作为一种类型的构成。我的结论是，RCOA 主导了时间性，并通过具体应用的量化保持了对叙事的权威，同时捕捉了难民经历的必要主观和情感材料，以实现共同叙事需要被公众广泛接受的真实性。因此，通过操纵解释学的可组合性，RCOA 证明了一个目标，