Emergent Remembering II. Saying the Unsayable

这项提议延续了SNF/DFG资助的研究项目“紧急记忆”。当代文学和口述历史中的碎片化句法和文本生产(Emergenes Erinnern)《格根沃茨的文学和口述历史》中的Fragentierte语法和结构Herstellung)，并提出了一个新的焦点。该项目小组由来自苏黎世的文学学者和来自弗莱堡的语言学家组成，此前对文学和采访中自传体记忆的产生进行了比较研究，基于法语、意大利语和德语的记忆叙事，重点是二战期间。文学和语言研究人员之间的合作被证明是非常有成效的。因此，在第一个项目成果的基础上，如13篇文章和两本书(博士论文)所述，我们现在将继续从不可说的角度来考察文学和口述历史记忆叙事中更普遍的新出现的记忆。因此，为了继续这个项目，我们从文本制作的一个根本挑战开始，即战争中遭受的暴力、强迫劳动、驱逐出境和集中营拘留等极端经历的(联合国)可说性。我们问，目击者采访和文学叙事的叙述者如何通过创造特定形式的接受者设计，掌握讲述不可说的话并将其呈现出来的挑战。这是以前从未做过的，特别是考虑到我们的各种语料库以前没有进行过比较。我们的初步工作表明，有某些技术可以应对不可说的挑战，这些技术在这两个语料库中都适用。对于联合项目工作，我们将关注其中的三种技巧：(1)对体验的不可说的明确命名，(2)只选择所述情景的一个突出方面，作为例句，这使得体验是可理解的，以及(3)情景的唤起和预感，这不是报告，而是通过文本积累的感觉经验或口头叙述者的肢体语言来重演。研究的目标有两个：一方面，我们将弄清楚不同的接受和制作媒介条件如何塑造叙事技巧；另一方面，我们将表明，尽管存在这些媒介差异，但有一个因素保持不变：接受者的加入。

This proposal continues the SNF/DFG-funded research project Emergent Remembering. Fragmented Syntax and Textual Production in Contemporary Literature and Oral History (Emergentes Erinnern. Fragmentierte Syntax und textuelle Herstellung in Gegenwartsliteratur und Oral History) with a new point of focus. The project group, consisting of literary scholars from Zurich and linguists from Freiburg, previously conducted a comparative investigation of the production of autobiographical memories in literature and interviews, on the basis of memory narratives in French, but also in Italian and German, that focus on the period of World War II. The collaboration between literary and linguistic researchers proved highly fruitful. Hence, building on the achievements of the first project, as documented in thirteen articles and two books (PhD theses), we will now move on to examine more generally emergent remembering in literary and oral history memory narratives from the perspective of the unsayable. For the continuation of the project, we thus start from a fundamental challenge of text production that lies in the (un)sayability of the extreme experiences of violence suffered in war, forced labour, deportation, and concentration camp internment. We ask how narrators of eyewitness interviews and literary narratives can master the challenge of telling the unsayable and making it present, by creating specific forms of recipient design. This has not been done before, especially considering that our various corpora have not been compared previously. Our preliminary work has shown that there are certain techniques for coping with the challenge of unsayability which are applied in both corpora. For the joint project work, we will focus on three of these techniques: (1) the explicit naming of the unsayability of the experience, (2) the choice of only one salient aspect of the narrated situation, which as a pars pro toto makes the experience comprehensible, and (3) the evocation and presentification of a situation, which is not reported but re-enacted through a textual accumulation of sensory experiences or by the oral narrator’s body language. The research goal is twofold: on the one hand, we will work out how the very diverse medial conditions of reception and production shape the narrative techniques; on the other hand, we will show that despite these medial differences, one factor remains constant: the inclusion of the recipient.