The Linguistic Mechanisms of Trauma Discourse

Trauma discourse is the instance in which linguistic mechanisms reveal the speaker's evaluation of their traumatic experience. Language can also vary according to the distance of the subject in relation to the traumatic event. The aim of this study is to detect the discursive mechanisms that sp...

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Published in:Procedia, social and behavioral sciences social and behavioral sciences, 2013-10, Vol.92, p.517-522
Main Author: Matei, Mădălina-Georgiana
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
collective trauma
discourse markers
narrative
silence
trauma discourse
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Summary:Trauma discourse is the instance in which linguistic mechanisms reveal the speaker's evaluation of their traumatic experience. Language can also vary according to the distance of the subject in relation to the traumatic event. The aim of this study is to detect the discursive mechanisms that speakers use when narrating traumatic events and to discover the roles that certain language items might have in the construction of trauma discourse. For this purpose, interviews in which speakers recount traumatic experiences, such as political persecution or deportation, are studied in order to single out the discursive patterns that emerge within trauma discourse.
ISSN:1877-0428
1877-0428
DOI:10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.08.711