Contributions to biography research have stressed the role of metaphors in the process of recollection and (re)construction of a person’s life-story. This article aims to show how a close linguistic investigation of the metaphorical formulations used by Hilde Rudberg in her 1991 interview with Anne Betten can prove fruitful in revealing Rudberg’s emotional involvement, which is not explicitly verbalized in the course of the interview. A fine-grained linguistic analysis focusing especially on metaphors, but also applying tools from other linguistic frameworks (significantly narrative analysis and perspectives on agency) can thus help to shed light on the ways Hilde Rudberg makes sense of her own past in her interview.
Metaphors in the Life Story of A German- Jewish Immigrant to Palestine/Israel. How Metaphorical Constructions and Remembering Process Interweave
simona leonardi
2018-01-01
Abstract
Contributions to biography research have stressed the role of metaphors in the process of recollection and (re)construction of a person’s life-story. This article aims to show how a close linguistic investigation of the metaphorical formulations used by Hilde Rudberg in her 1991 interview with Anne Betten can prove fruitful in revealing Rudberg’s emotional involvement, which is not explicitly verbalized in the course of the interview. A fine-grained linguistic analysis focusing especially on metaphors, but also applying tools from other linguistic frameworks (significantly narrative analysis and perspectives on agency) can thus help to shed light on the ways Hilde Rudberg makes sense of her own past in her interview.
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