EAN: 9781137582997

ENGLISH AS A LINGUA FRANCA IN MIGRANTS TRAUMA N...

This book examines how trauma is experienced and narrated differently across languages and
cultures  drawing on rich ethnographic case studies and a novel cognitive-linguistic approach
to analyse the variations of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) used in the narratives of
West-African migrants and refugees in the course of intercultural encounters with Italian
experts from domain-specific fields of discourse (including legal  medical  religious and
cultural professionals). It examines the ways in which such experts interpret the migrants'
trauma narratives by applying discourse conventions from within their communities of practice 
as well as their own native linguacultural norms. It argues persuasively for the development of
a 'hybrid ELF mode' of intercultural communication to be used by experts in charge of unequal
encounters in specialized migration contexts that can accommodate different culture-bound
categorizations of trauma. This timely and important work will appeal in particular to students
and scholars of applied linguistics  discourse analysis  cognitive linguistics  intercultural
communication  pragmalinguistics  migration studies and healthcare communication.

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