{"title":"Going Beyond Narration: Guided Tours at Concentration Camp Memorial Sites from a Linguistic Perspective","authors":"Moritz Lautenbach-von Ostrowski","doi":"10.1353/ncu.2022.0016","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this article, guided tours for young people at concentration camp memorial sites are looked at from the perspective of a linguistic theory of action. The article demonstrates that guides process the knowledge and ideas of their hearers, giving them \"access to memory\" that conveys experience-based knowledge. This knowledge has entered the sphere of cultural memory, thus re-entering communicative memory. Special attention is paid to narrating: What characterizes this linguistic form of action, and to what extent do guides also make use of others? The article shows that they go far beyond narrating, e.g., in order to pass down their testimonies.","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"9 1","pages":"234 - 255"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Narrative Culture","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ncu.2022.0016","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:In this article, guided tours for young people at concentration camp memorial sites are looked at from the perspective of a linguistic theory of action. The article demonstrates that guides process the knowledge and ideas of their hearers, giving them "access to memory" that conveys experience-based knowledge. This knowledge has entered the sphere of cultural memory, thus re-entering communicative memory. Special attention is paid to narrating: What characterizes this linguistic form of action, and to what extent do guides also make use of others? The article shows that they go far beyond narrating, e.g., in order to pass down their testimonies.
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Narrative Culture is a new journal that conceptualizes narration as a broad and pervasive human practice, warranting a holistic perspective that grasps the place of narrative comparatively across time and space. The journal invites contributions that document, discuss and theorize narrative culture, and offers a platform that integrates approaches spread across various disciplines. The field of narrative culture thus outlined is defined by a large variety of forms of popular narratives, including not only oral and written texts, but also narratives in images, three-dimensional art, customs, rituals, drama, dance, music, and so forth. Narrative Culture is peer-reviewed and international as well as interdisciplinary in orientation.