The Routledge Handbook of Language and Trauma
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 1. December 2026
Book
Hardback
638 pages
978-1-032-22363-6 (ISBN)
Description
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Trauma provides an up-to-date overview of the entanglement between language and trauma, mapping the field of research that is developing around this dynamic area. Trauma, like other intense experiences and feelings such as pain, grief, and rage, touches at the limits of the sayable and is yet part of the lived experience of language. This handbook argues that paying closer attention to the exceptional, the marginal, the disturbing shows the significance of the messiness, of omissions, silences, and ambiguities in what is considered ordinary, 'normalized' every-day practice. Exploring the specific social, political, and historical conditions that lead to and frame traumatic experience, and incorporating a wide range of examples from around the world, the Routledge Handbook of Language and Trauma looks beyond specific cases to present methodologies and approaches applicable to trauma studies from an applied linguistic and sociolinguistic perspective.
Asking key questions such as what applied linguistics can contribute to trauma research and therapy and how applied linguists can benefit from venturing into the field of trauma research, this handbook will be essential for those studying and researching trauma in Applied Linguistics and Education.
Asking key questions such as what applied linguistics can contribute to trauma research and therapy and how applied linguists can benefit from venturing into the field of trauma research, this handbook will be essential for those studying and researching trauma in Applied Linguistics and Education.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced
Illustrations
28 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 7 s/w Zeichnungen, 16 s/w Tabellen, 35 s/w Abbildungen
16 Tables, black and white; 7 Line drawings, black and white; 28 Halftones, black and white; 35 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 174 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-032-22363-6 (9781032223636)
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Persons
Judith Purkarthofer is a professor of German linguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany, working on multilingualism in families, education and other social contexts.
Brigitta Busch is a former professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Vienna and currently extraordinary professor at Stellenbosch University; her interest is in biographical approaches to lived experience of language.
Marcelyn Oostendorp is an Associate Professor in the Department of General Linguistics at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, interested in decolonial theory and social space.
Brigitta Busch is a former professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Vienna and currently extraordinary professor at Stellenbosch University; her interest is in biographical approaches to lived experience of language.
Marcelyn Oostendorp is an Associate Professor in the Department of General Linguistics at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, interested in decolonial theory and social space.
Content
1. Language and trauma: Mapping the field Part I Epistemes of trauma in language studies - methodologies and approaches 2. Linguistic vulnerability: Conceptualizing the language-trauma nexus from an experiential perspective 3. Historical trauma and language loss Cross-cultural challenges and self-reflective research paradigms in quantitative and qualitative approaches 4. Language as part of traumatic experiences: through narrative analysis 5. Studying trauma through metaphors 6. What we (do not) talk about when we talk about trauma. The discourse semantics of trauma Part II Trangsenerational transmission and historical trauma - Language or its absence in the making of trauma 7. Trauma, Resilience, and Future Directions in the Deaf Population: A Historical Perspective on Sign Language in the United States of America 8. First language rejection as a response to collective trauma 9. Language Trauma and Shift among the Turkish Sephardim 10. Language education and 'conflicted heritage': handling a collective trauma 11. Lacking words in either language. Transmission and language choice of a multilingual child in a psychoanalytical perspective 12. Becoming a speaker of memory: A language socialization of approach to understanding intergenerational trauma 13. Transmission of family languages, evaluations and encounters: potentially traumatic experiences with language in families Part III Narrative Representations - telling about and listening to trauma 14. Judging Trauma: Language Ideologies and the Marginalization of Unexpected Rape Narratives 15. Linguistic textures of trauma: The complexities of 'narrative truth' in selected South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission testimonies 16. Words and Wounds: Linguistic Approaches to Gender-Based Violence and Trauma 17. Seeing Rape: Performing Trauma and Drama Responses 18. Hearing fragmented selves: trauma-informed polymedia sensitivity in working with dissociation 19. Positioning and sequential traumatization: The case of the Bosnian refugees exemplified through legal conditions, psychological perspectives, and storytelling Part IV Trauma informed practice - Interpreting, Education, Therapy and Counceling 20. No escape? Interpreting Trauma with a Focus on Interpreters' Emotional Involvement, Coping and Self-Care Strategies 21. Trauma and Literacy Practices in Educational Spaces: A Review of Research and Practice 22. Multilingual clients' experiences of expressing and processing traumatic experiences in psychotherapy: evidence for a multilingual praxis 23. Online Therapy with Multilingual Clients: addressing displacement trauma 24. Language, Trauma and Deafness in European context - a counceling approach 25. Training psychological therapists and interpreters to work together in the context of trauma - conversations from the UK Part V Politics and practices of Recognition and Remembering 26. Semiotics and multidirectional remembering in Holocaust museums and memorials 27. Itineraries of mnemossiduous practice from Rwanda: Lessons from memorials of ruin 28. Therapeuticscape: Semiotic landscapes of suicide and public acts of resistance of trauma and healing 29. Three perspectives on testifying, narrating and restoring justice: the role of language in Truth and Reconciliation Commissions Part VI The poetics of trauma - expressions in Arts, Literature and Creative storytelling 30. Chronotopic representations of trauma in prisoners' writing: A social literacy view 31. Paying attention to silenced trauma: linguistic micro-aggressions 32. Literary Studies on the Nexus between Language and Trauma 33. Comics and Trauma 34. The Body and the Self in Graphic Narratives of Trauma Index