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Learning How to Tell, Learning How to Ask: Reciprocity and Storytelling as a Community Process
Anna De FinaMarcello AmorusoGiuseppe Paternostrosubject
050101 languages & linguisticsLinguistics and Language010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciencesCommunicationRefugeeDiscourse analysis05 social sciencesGender studiesMinor (academic)01 natural sciencesLanguage and LinguisticsSettore L-FIL-LET/12 - Linguistica ItalianaInterpersonal relationshipReciprocity (social psychology)0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesNarrativeSociologyContent (Freudian dream analysis)Storytelling narrative and identity discourse analysis0105 earth and related environmental sciencesStorytellingdescription
AbstractIn this article, we discuss the discursive processes that surround storytelling of traumatic experiences in the case of minor asylum seekers involved in the recent migration flow to Italian ports. We argue that in order to understand not only how traumatic experiences are told but also how they are overcome, it is necessary to focus on the reciprocal relationships and impact of the members of the communities in which migrants are received. Such approach shifts the focus from the content of stories toward the protagonists of their tellings and from asylum seekers as ‘subjects’ to asylum seekers as members of communities to which they and others contribute. The article is based on narrative data collected through an ongoing project with teachers, researchers, and minor asylum seekers involved in a school of Italian Language for Foreigners in Palermo.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-02-04 | Applied Linguistics |