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The Routledge Handbook of Language and Trauma

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Trauma

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics

LinguisticsGeneral Education

PREORDER - Expected ship date December 18, 2026

ISBN10: 1032223634
ISBN13: 9781032223636
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 18 2026
Pages: 638
Language: English

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Trauma provides an up-to-date overview of the entanglement between language and trauma, mapping the field of research that is developing around this dynamic area. Trauma, like other intense experiences and feelings such as pain, grief, and rage, touches at the limits of the sayable and is yet part of the lived experience of language. This handbook argues that paying closer attention to the exceptional, the marginal, the disturbing shows the significance of the messiness, of omissions, silences, and ambiguities in what is considered ordinary, 'normalized' every-day practice. Exploring the specific social, political, and historical conditions that lead to and frame traumatic experience, and incorporating a wide range of examples from around the world, the Routledge Handbook of Language and Trauma looks beyond specific cases to present methodologies and approaches applicable to trauma studies from an applied linguistic and sociolinguistic perspective.

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