Overview
- Examines how linguaculture can affect the reception of migrants’ trauma narratives
- Argues that PTSD categories established by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and used within Transcultural Psychiatry fail to accommodate non-Western experiences of trauma
- Provides linguistic insight into interpretive gaps between migrants and refugees using ELF variations and experts using specialized and culture-bound discourses
- Presents solutions to enable Western experts to better understand culture-bound ways of expressing trauma
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Keywords
- cognitive-functional linguistics
- English as a lingua franca
- trauma narratives
- linguaculture
- transcultural psychiatry
- unequal encounters
- Language and power
- non-Western migrants
- ELF variations
- sociopragmatic failure
- Pragmalinguistic
- specialized discourse
- asylum seekers
- American Psychiatric Association (APA)
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- linguistic modality
- migrants’ sea-journey narratives
- idioms of distress
- ethnopoetics
- Responsible Tourism
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"Providing a positive counterbalance to the current anti-immigration rhetoric which is so prevalent, Guido’s research offers pertinent insight into English as a Lingua Franca being used in high stakes communicative acts where power imbalances are acute and will make substantial contribution to the field." (Haynes Collins, Associate Professor of Intercultural Studies, University of Leeds, UK)
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Book Title: English as a Lingua Franca in Migrants' Trauma Narratives
Authors: Maria Grazia Guido
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58300-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-58299-7Published: 27 February 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-84482-1Due: 04 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58300-0Published: 08 January 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 228
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Cognitive Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Migration, Intercultural Communication, Discourse Analysis, Communication Studies