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000148053 100__ $$aMañero, Laura Miñano
000148053 245__ $$aGendering the language of genocide
000148053 260__ $$c2024
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000148053 5203_ $$aAbstract
Exploring the Holocaust through a gendered lens, this article examines linguistic aggression against women in Nazi
concentration camps. While extensive scholarship connects language to genocide, the imbrication between gender, language and
genocide remains an under-researched subject. To further this discussion, I analyze female survivors’ memoirs to explore the
processes of semantic deprecation through metaphorization. Relying on cognitive semantics (Lakoff and Johnson 1980), I concentrate on euphemistic and dysphemistic metaphors that construct women’s identities in
terms of otherness, by means of zoosemic and reifying conceptualizations, among others. The sources under examination encompass
Jewish survivors Liana Millu (2001); Gisella Perl
(2019), and Anne-Lise Stern (2004), and non-Jewish resisters Margarete Buber-Neumann (2008); Wanda Półtawska (1989),
and Germaine Tillion (1997). Considering the relationship between metaphorical language and perceived stereotypes about women and
the feminine, and focusing on specific lexical items, I hope to unravel the nexus between linguistic aggression and patriarchal
structures in the concentration camp system. I argue that metaphorization reinforced women’s inferior position and perpetuated
gender stereotypes. I suggest that, paradoxically, this violence also triggered empowering processes of linguistic
reappropriation, asserting the victims’ agency.
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000148053 593__ $$aCommunication$$c2024$$dQ1
000148053 593__ $$aLinguistics and Language$$c2024$$dQ1
000148053 593__ $$aSurfaces and Interfaces$$c2024$$dQ2
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000148053 773__ $$tJournal of Language Aggression and Conflict$$x2213-1272
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