33.2300, Calls: Socioling, Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Psycholing/Germany
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Subject: 33.2300, Calls: Socioling, Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Psycholing/Germany
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Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2022 23:22:44
From: Judith Purkarthofer [judith.purkarthofer at uni-due.de]
Subject: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Language and Trauma
Full Title: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Language and Trauma
Date: 09-Mar-2023 - 10-Mar-2023
Location: Essen (Univ. Duisburg-Essen), Germany
Contact Person: Judith Purkarthofer
Meeting Email: judith.purkarthofer at uni-due.de
Web Site: http://heteroglossia.net/Home.2.0.html
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics
Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2022
Meeting Description:
There is little question as to whether language and (lack of) expression are
crucial in dealing with trauma – however, it is only recently that researchers
in applied linguistics began to address language and trauma explicitly. A
first attempt to bring researchers in applied linguistics together was
undertaken by Brigitta Busch and Tim McNamara in their special issue Language
and Trauma of Applied Linguistics (2020). They focused on research employing
the tools of linguistic analysis to address the question of language in the
experience of, recounting of and possible recovery from psychological trauma,
in personal, literary and institutional contexts.
While the term trauma (‘wound’ in its Greek origin) was originally largely
confined to medicine and psychotherapy, it has recently found its way into
everyday language, where it is often used, semantically overstretched, for any
form of painful or frustrating experience. In specialized literature trauma is
conceived more narrowly, albeit not quite uniformly. Fischer and Riedesser
(1998: 84, our translation) define trauma „[…] as a vital experience of
discrepancy between threatening situation factors and individual coping
possibilities“ and they stress that this “causes an ongoing disruption of
one’s understanding of the self and the world.“
The disruption as a shared characteristic caused by trauma cannot initially
be integrated into the self. This presents a difference to pain and sorrow
that are understandable as they are linked to ‘more expectable’ negative
experiences.
The effects of traumatic experiences are thus relevant for the persons
involved and they also become relevant for future generations who might
socially inherit some of the imprints left by traumatic experiences (Rauwald
2020, Keilson 2005). Transmission can happen through languages but also
silence can be a relevant, often threatening part of a speaker’s repertoire
after trauma.
Our workshop aims at continuing an ongoing discussion around trauma as a
multi-disciplinary field by exploring the role of language in the discursive
construction of trauma as an object of knowledge, its involvement in the
actual experience and the reenactment of trauma, and its potential and
limitations in the narration of trauma. Relevant reseach is not limited to
language studies per se and we are eager to learn about interdisciplinary
research in the field. Trauma, like other intense experiences and feelings
such as pain, grief, and rage, touches at the limits of the sayable. In
situations of trauma, linguistic interaction might be perceived as so
‘extreme’ or ‘exceptional’ that these kinds of interactions might appear
marginal to an understanding of how language in ‘normal’ interaction
functions. We welcome contributions that present theoretical considerations,
give insights into empirical research in different areas related to language
and trauma or present applications of the connections of language and trauma.
Engaging with language at the limit of the sayable (Jaworski 1997, Holzer et
al. 2011, Milani 2014) can benefit applied linguistics precisely because it
challenges some taken-for-granted boundaries. Dalenberg speaks of the
inadequacy of language in trauma treatment (Dalenberg 2000) and traumatic
experiences influence how speakers are able to interact with the world around
them.
Such moments are marked by overwhelming emotional states of extreme fear and
helplessness, often intermingled with other affects (such as grief or shame)
and moral injury (such as feelings of failure or guilt). As traumatic
experiences and memories remain deeply inscribed in the body (Fuchs 2012),
emotions linked to them remain equally present and leave their imprints in the
way one can speak or not speak about traumatic moments.
We are organizing the two-day workshop in Germany. No participation fee, but
participants are expected to cover travel and accommodation (travel grants
upon request).
Call for Papers:
Being aware of the many faces of traumatic experience, we invite work on
different historic and contemporary contexts, and covering a broad
geographical area. We are especially interested in challenging normativities
and thus wish to foreground research that takes decolonial or intersectional
approaches to trauma – either in theory or methodology.
Contributions to the workshop can include:
- research on supposedly ordinary, ‘normalized’ every day practice and how it
relates to the nonsayable, the exceptional, the marginal and the disturbing
- research on the significance of messiness, of omissions, silences, and
ambiguities with regard to lived experience of language and multilingual
repertoires
- research on specific social, political and historical conditions that lead
to and frame traumatic experience; questions of (public) recognition,
remembrance and commemoration
- methodologies and approaches applicable to trauma studies from an
interdisciplinary, language
- related perspective
Participation, Conveners and Contacts
Please send your abstracts of approx. 300 words to all three organizers until
30 Sep, 2022:
Judith Purkarthofer, Marcelyn Oostendorp and Brigitta Busch
Full call and contacts:
http://heteroglossia.net/fileadmin/user_upload/Call_Language_and_Trauma_March2
023_Germany.pdf
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