RT Journal Article
SR Electronic(1)
A1 Lucić, Luka
A1 Bridges, Elizabeth
YR 2018
T1 Ecological landscape in narrative thought: How siege survivors employ prepositions to make sense of war-torn Sarajevo
JF Narrative Inquiry
VO 28
IS 2
SP 346
OP 372
DO https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.17076.luc
PB John Benjamins
SN 1387-6740,
AB Abstract
This study explores how 16 individuals who grew up during the four-year long military siege of the city employ language to make
sense of their everyday experiences in Sarajevo following the conclusion of the Bosnian War. Narrative inquiry is employed in this
work to study sense-making, a psychological process based in language and situated in interaction with extant
social and physical landscapes. During the study, participants wrote responses across the three narrative contexts (1) the prewar,
(2) the acute war, and (3) the postwar. Data analyses examine how participants enact ecological landscape in
narrative construction through varied use of prepositions across the three narrative contexts. Significantly higher use of
prepositions in the acute war narrative context indicates that growing up amidst urban destruction gives rise to thought processes
that draw on spatial and temporal relations in order to make sense of radical environmental changes in the landscape of war.,
UL https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/ni.17076.luc