TY  - CHAP
A1  - Prade-Weiss, Juliane
T1  - Scarspeak : thinking the mother tongue as a formative mark
T2  - Untying the mother tongue / ed. by Antonio Castore and Federico Dal Bo ; Cultural Inquiry ; 26
N2  - This chapter proposes the scar as a productive image to conceptualize the relation of speakers to the particular language otherwise called mother tongue, native or first language. Thinking of this relation in terms of a scar avoids the biopolitical implications of concepts derived from the context of family and birth that have, throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century, come to present language as basis of a nation state. The image of the scar also avoids the biographical normalization and linguistic hierarchization implied in the term first language, as both are equally important biopolitical strategies of forming individuals and communities. Thinking of the mother tongue in terms of a scar emphasizes the intensity of lasting formation and identification entailed by acquiring this particular language, and it highlights the violence inherent to these processes that tends to be covered up by the naturalizing and family-related imagery of native or mother tongue as well as by the favour implied in the term first language.
KW  - Sprache
KW  - Muttersprache
KW  - Spracherwerb
KW  - Sprachursprung
KW  - Narbe
KW  - Kafka, Franz
KW  - Ein Bericht für eine Akademie
KW  - Joyce, James
KW  - A portrait of the artist as a young man
KW  - Veteranyi, Aglaja
KW  - Warum das Kind in der Polenta kocht
KW  - Scar
KW  - Origin of language
KW  - Language acquisition
Y1  - 2023
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/75514
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-755149
UR  - https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-26/prade-weiss_scarspeak.pdf
SN  - 978-3-96558-050-3
SN  - 978-3-96558-051-0
SN  - 978-3-96558-049-7
SN  - 2627-731X
SP  - 105
EP  - 126
PB  - ICI Press
CY  - Berlin
ER  -