ABSTRACT

This paper sets out to offer emic insights into doctoral students’ identity formation processes emerging at the interface of their personal biographies and situational doctoral conditions. Leaning on a dialogical theorisation of identity, the study analyses life stories told by four PhD students, focusing on how participants narratively position and reposition into being their multivoiced doctoral identity. It particularly discerns two types of doctoral development trajectories according to the different degrees of agency individuals exercise in dialogically interrogating, negotiating, and juxtaposing their multiple I-positions. Meanwhile, findings indicate that internal dialogue as a reflexive vehicle has significantly empowered all the participants’ striving for a continuous and coherent self. The article sheds nuanced light on the temporally, spatially, and socially fluid nature of individual agency in mediating students’ personal and professional identity sensemaking within the context of research education.

摘要

本文着眼于对博士生的个人身份和处境博士情况的界面中出现的身份形成过程提供Emic见解。该研究以身份的对话理论为基础，分析了四名博士生讲述的生活故事，着重研究了参与者如何通过叙事方式定位和重新定位成为多语种的博士身份。它根据代理人在对话中询问，谈判和并置其多个I位置时行使代理机构的不同程度，特别区分出两种类型的博士发展轨迹。同时，研究结果表明，内部对话作为一种反身工具，极大地增强了所有参与者争取连续和连贯自我的能力。这篇文章在时间上讲得很细腻，