This study illustrates how personal narratives of victimized self serve two Kazakh-speaking village neighbors to accomplish self-presentation during a mealtime interaction. Integrating Goffman’s (1959) theorization of self-presentation with narrative positioning (Bamberg, 1997; Schiffrin, 1996) and Muslim cultural practices (e.g., Al Zidjaly, 2006), this study conceptualizes mealtime conversations as frontstage and examines two victimhood narratives after providing the sequential overview of the twelve narratives occurred in the interaction. The analysis illustrates how linguistic construction of agentive and epistemic selves of the narrators position them as victims (whose personal items are stolen) in relation to other neighbors (who do the act of stealing) in the story world. This juxtaposition of “I” vs. “Others” in the story world allows the neighbor-tellers to present an idealized self (morally superior neighbors) and function as a team by getting lower hand and aligning with one another against a third party (morally wrong neighbors) in the interaction.

中文翻译：

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通过讲哈萨克语的村庄邻居的受害故事来展示自我并团结一致

这项研究说明了受害自我的个人叙述如何服务于两个讲哈萨克语的村庄邻居，以在用餐时间的互动中完成自我展示。将 Goffman (1959) 的自我呈现理论与叙事定位 (Bamberg, 1997; Schiffrin, 1996) 和穆斯林文化实践 (例如 Al Zidjaly, 2006) 相结合，本研究将用餐时间的对话概念化为前台，并在提供十二个叙述的顺序概述发生在互动中。分析说明了叙述者的主体和认知自我的语言构建如何将他们定位为与故事世界中其他邻居（偷窃行为）相关的受害者（他们的个人物品被盗）。“我”与“我”的这种并置