Resumen: Abstract
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.
Idioma: Inglés
DOI: 10.1075/jlac.00111.min
Año: 2024
Publicado en: Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict
ISSN: 2213-1272
Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.706 - Communication (Q1) - Linguistics and Language (Q1) - Surfaces and Interfaces (Q2)
Tipo y forma: Article (PostPrint)
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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.
Idioma: Inglés
DOI: 10.1075/jlac.00111.min
Año: 2024
Publicado en: Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict
ISSN: 2213-1272
Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.706 - Communication (Q1) - Linguistics and Language (Q1) - Surfaces and Interfaces (Q2)
Tipo y forma: Article (PostPrint)
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