"Without language, everything is chaos and confusion ..."
Corporal-emotional linguistic experience and the linguistic repertoire
The connection between language and trauma has so far been mainly discussed
with regards to the difficulty of narrating traumatic experience. The issue of
multilingualism and traumatic experience has mainly been raised in studies on
language loss or change. This contribution takes an approach based on the concepts
of bodily and emotional language experience and of linguistic repertoire
as the totality of linguistic and communicative resources speakers can draw
on. Referring to Aharon Appelfeld’s autobiographical text “The Story of a Life,”
the chapter focuses on how traumatic experience affects the linguistic repertoire
and how on the other hand linguistic resources can help to strengthen
resilience.
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