Vulnerability

Studies about discursive positions marked by physical, psychological and social vulnerability

This collection presents studies on a wide range of discursive positions marked by vulnerability and investigates the functions of (self-)positioning actors as vulnerable in contemporary social discourses. As a phenomenon that manifests itself in different social arenas, vulnerable positions and instances of (self-)positioning indicate various crisis situations on a broad spectrum of phenomena, of manifestations and implications. Starting from the assumption that vulnerable (self-)positioning and stance-taking is manifested at the level of discursive practices, performative processes and material achievements, the contributors describe a series of mechanisms of staging vulnerability in a wide range of manifestations: among them physical, psychological, social, sexual and gender, linguistic, and institutional vulnerability.

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Prof. Dr. Silvia Bonacchi, geboren 1966, studierte Germanistik in Florenz und Saabrücken. Sie ist Professorin für Linguistik an der Universität Warschau. Prof. Dr. Silvia Bonacchi, geboren 1966, studierte Germanistik in Florenz und Saabrücken. Sie ist Professorin für Linguistik an der Universität Warschau.