Abstract Recently, the Netherlands witnessed an agitated discussion over Black Pete, a blackface character associated with the Saint Nicholas festival. This paper analyzes a televised panel interview discussing a possible court ban of public Nicholas festivities, and demonstrates that participants not only disagree over the racist nature of the blackface character but also over the terms of the debate itself. Drawing on recent sociolinguistic work on stancetaking, it traces how panelists ‘laminate’ the interview’s participation framework by embedding their assessments of Black Pete in contrasting dialogical fields. Their stancetaking evokes opposing trajectories of earlier interactions and conjures up discursive complexes of identity/belonging that entail discrepant judgments over the acceptability of criticism. The extent to which a stance makes explicit the projected field’s phenomenal content, it is argued, reflects the relative (in)visibility of hegemonic we-ness.

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面对黑脸

摘要最近，荷兰目睹了关于黑人皮特（Black Pete）的激烈讨论，黑人皮特是与圣尼古拉节相关的黑人面孔。本文分析了一个电视专题小组访谈，讨论了法院可能禁止公众进行的尼古拉斯庆祝活动，并表明参与者不仅对黑脸人物的种族主义性质存在争议，而且对辩论本身的条款也存在分歧。它借鉴了近期关于姿态的社会语言学研究成果，通过将他们对黑人皮特的评估嵌入相反的对话领域，来追溯小组成员如何“层压”访谈的参与框架。他们的立场唤起了早期互动的相反轨迹，并让人联想到身份/归属的话语复合体，这使得对批评的可接受性做出了不同的判断。