The work-spouse relationship has gained scholarly and popular media attention in recent years. Because the relationship is a blend of friendship, workplace relationship, and intimate partnership, work spouses may have the need to justify and explain the relationship to each other and to external parties to help them make sense of the relationship and to establish its legitimacy. I used the concept of discourse-dependency to analyze interviews with 20 people in a work-spouse relationships and found that they engage in boundary management strategies, specifically naming and labeling, to legitimize their work-spouse relationships.

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反映工作与工作关系的话语依赖性质的边界管理策略

近年来，工作与工作的关系受到了学术界和大众媒体的关注。因为这种关系是友谊，工作场所关系和亲密伙伴关系的混合体，所以工作配偶可能需要相互证明对方和与外部当事人之间的关系，以帮助他们理解这种关系并确立其合法性。我使用话语依赖的概念来分析与20个工作-工作关系中的人的访谈，发现他们参与了边界管理策略，特别是命名和标签，以使他们的工作-工作关系合法化。