Publications

Publication details [#26452]

Schiffrin, Deborah. 2002. Mother and friends in a Holocaust life story. Language in Society 31 (3) : 309–353.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

history | identity negotiation | mother | orality | storytelling

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study analyzes the linguistic construction of two relationships -with mother and friends- in the life story of a female Holocaust survivor, Ilse Kahane, in order to gain insight into the continuity and coherence of identity over time.