Publications

Publication details [#53422]

Erjavec, Karmen and Zala Volčič. 2010. ‘Target’, ‘cancer’ and ‘warrior’: Exploring painful metaphors of self-presentation used by girls born of war rape. Discourse & Society 21 (5) : 524–543.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse strategy | girls' language | metaphor | rape | self-presentation

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This life story analysis of 19 Bosniak adolescent girls, born of war rapes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, demonstrates that metaphorical language is the only way via which abused girls can express their sore situations.