Message in a Bottle
Scenic Presentation of the Unsayable
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22870826 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brigitta Busch (0000-0002-2288-0155, Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna; Stellenbosch University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 408-427 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Applied Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0142-6001 • E-ISSN: 1477-450X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/applin/amaa001 |
| OpenAlex | W3022056929 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 14 |
Linguistic studies related to trauma are primarily interested in how traumatic events can be verbalized. This article, in contrast, focusses on ways of translating a traumatic experience into forms of symbolization that do not report on what happened but rather foreground the bodily and emotional sensations linked to (re)living such experiences. In discussing such forms of scenic presentation and condensation, I will build, inter alia, on Wittgenstein’s (1919/1997) distinction between saying and showing as well as on Langer’s (1948) distinction between discursive and presentational forms of meaning making. The close reading of a multimodal text authored by an eight-year-old schoolgirl in the context of a creative-writing activity allows us to identify poetic and artistic means that suggest a reading of the text as a ‘bottled message’ about intense feelings of fear and helplessness. In concluding I argue that Bruner’s (1986) dichotomous distinction between the paradigmatic and the narrative mode of meaning making needs to be extended by recognizing a third mode, which might be termed the presentational mode.
Aesthetics · Art · Context (archaeology) · Feeling · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Mode (computer interface) · Narrative · Presentation (obstetrics) · Presentational and representational acting · Reading (process) · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Linguistic research and analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
From Care Ethics to Care Writing
Finding Max’s wolves
Vulnerability and Ethics in the Global South
Trauma in Tesol
Pedagogies of discomfort in the world language classroom
Linguistic and Artistic Representations of Trauma
Embodied vulnerability
Playing with funds of difficult knowledge
The principle-practice gap
I am a Problem”
Post‐Traumatic Growth in the Global South
Boundaries of belonging
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |