Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: Twentieth century has witnessed several cases of mass traumatization when groups as \nwholes were ostracized even threated with annihilation. From the perspectives of identity \ntrauma, when harms are afflicted to a group of people by other groups because of their \ncategorical membership, ethnic and national traumas stand out. This paper aims to \ninvestigate long-term consequences of permanent traumatization on national identity \nwith presenting a narrative social psychological study as a potential way of empirical \nexploration of the processes of collective traumatization and trauma elaboration. A \nNarrative Trauma Elaboration Model has been introduced which identifies linguistic \nmarkers of the elaboration process. Newspaper articles (word count = 203172) about a \nsignificant national trauma of the Hungarian history, Treaty of Trianon (1920), were chosen \nfrom a ninety year time span and emotional expressions of narratives were analysed with \na narrative categorical content analytic tool (NarrCat). Longitudinal pattern of data show \nvery weak emotional processing of the traumatic event. Results are discussed in terms \nof collective victimhood as core element of national identity and its effects on trauma \nelaboration.
Authors: Éva Fülöp, János László
Language: Portuguese
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: National Research Foundation
OpenAlex ID: W1497581103