The Routledge Handbook of Language and Trauma

1. Language and trauma: Mapping the field

BUSCH, Brigitta and Judith PURKARTHOFER

Part I Epistemes of trauma in language studies - methodologies and approaches

2. Linguistic vulnerability: Conceptualizing the language-trauma nexus from an experiential perspective

BUSCH, Brigitta

3.   Historical trauma and language loss  Cross-cultural challenges and self-reflective research paradigms in quantitative and qualitative approaches

CHROMIK, Bartłomiej, Joanna MARYNIAK, Justyna OLKO, Ołena DUĆ-FAJFER, Werner HERNANDEZ

4.  Language as part of traumatic experiences: through narrative analysis

LEONARDI, Simona & Eva Maria THÜNE

5. Studying trauma through metaphors

MANNONI, Michele

6. What we (do not) talk about when we talk about trauma. The discourse semantics of trauma

LIND, Miriam 

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

JOHNSON, Paige M., David PLAYER, Claire RYAN, Danielle PREVI & Stephanie W. CAWTHON

8. First language rejection as a response to collective trauma

PAVLENKO, Aneta & Monika SCHMID

9. Language Trauma and Shift among the Turkish Sephardim

AMINIAN JAZI, Ioana

10. Language education and ‘conflicted heritage’: handling a collective trauma

CHARALAMBOUS, Constadina & Michalinos ZEMBYLAS

11. Lacking words in either language. Transmission and language choice of a multilingual child in a psychoanalytical perspective

WINTER-HEIDER, Christiane Eleonore

12. Becoming a speaker of memory: A language socialization of approach to understanding intergenerational trauma

BECKER, Ava

13. Transmission of family languages, evaluations and encounters: potentially traumatic experiences with language in families

PURKARTHOFER, Judith

Part III Narrative Representations – telling about and listening to trauma

14. Judging Trauma: Language Ideologies and the Marginalization of Unexpected Rape Narratives

 EHRLICH, Susan & Shonna TRINCH

15. Linguistic textures of trauma: The complexities of ‘narrative truth’ in selected South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission testimonies

BOCK, Zannie

16. Words and Wounds: Linguistic Approaches to Gender-Based Violence and Trauma

ÖZÇELIK, Merve & CANAGARAJAH, Suresh

17. Seeing Rape: Performing Trauma and Drama Responses

TRINCH, Shonna & Barbara CASSIDY

18. Hearing fragmented selves: trauma-informed polymedia sensitivity in working with dissociation

LYONS, Agnieszka

19. Positioning and sequential traumatization: The case of the Bosnian refugees exemplified through legal conditions, psychological perspectives, and storytelling

MANDIĆ, Marija, Marija BRANKOVIĆ & Luka GLUŠAC

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

PÖLLABAUER, Sonja & Magdalena BARTŁOMIEJCZYK

21.  Trauma and Literacy Practices in Educational Spaces: A Review of Research and Practice

WISEMAN, Angela, Janell MILLER, Demet SEBAN, Bethany P. LEWIS, Callie E. HAMMOND

22. Multilingual clients’ experiences of expressing and processing traumatic experiences in psychotherapy: evidence for a multilingual praxis

 ROLLAND, Louise

23. Online Therapy with Multilingual Clients: addressing displacement trauma

PIATAKHINA GIRÉ, Anastasia

24. Language, Trauma and Deafness in European context – a counceling approach

BAKER, Anne, Lieke DOORNKATE & Jantine JANSE

25. Training psychological therapists and interpreters to work together in the context of trauma – conversations from the UK

COSTA, Beverley & Zora JACKMAN

Part V Politics and practices of Recognition and Remembering

26. Semiotics and multidirectional remembering in Holocaust museums and memorials

MILANI, Tommaso M. & John E. RICHARDSON

27. Itineraries of mnemossiduous practice from Rwanda: Lessons from memorials of ruin

VAN DER REDE, Lauren

28. Therapeuticscape: Semiotic landscapes of suicide and public acts of resistance of trauma and healing

MORIARTY, Máiréad

29. Three perspectives on testifying, narrating and restoring justice: the role of language in Truth and Reconciliation Commissions

BOCK, Zannie, Lorean Sekwan FONTAINE, Pia LANE & Judith PURKARTHOFER

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

IOANNIDOU, Elena & Elisavet KIOURTI

31. Paying attention to silenced trauma: linguistic micro-aggressions

RAZAFIMANDIMBIMANANA, Elatiana

32. Literary Studies on the Nexus between Language and Trauma

DEGANUTTI, Marianna & VLASTA, Sandra

33. Comics and Trauma

EARLE, Harriet E. H.

34. The Body and the Self in Graphic Narratives of Trauma

NGUYEN, Khoi

Index

Biography

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.