Принудите на езика в една биографична реконструкция на случай
The Coercions of Language in a Biographical Case Reconstruction

Summary/Abstract: Two narrative interviews with the same respondent, taken in Bulgarian and in Turkish, are interpreted in the context of biographical data analysis. Answers to the following questions are sought for: whether one can perceive significant differences in the biographical Gestalt when the process of remembering and telling the life story takes place in different languages; whether the situation of interviewing generates specific biases and asymmetries, respectively, an unconscious latent coercion or pressure on the biographer to select socially acceptable experiences and attitudes to narrate about; what strategies the biographer uses from the perspective of the present in order to restore the continuity in a professional development that has been interrupted by the pre-1989 restrictive policy of the communist state vis-à-vis Bulgarian Turks.

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