Verbal coping strategies during life in the getto of Lodz: the chronicle of Lodz

Abstract

Which kind of verbal coping strategies do people have, when they are in exceptional circumstances as the gettosituation? A study at the example of chronicles of Lodz. It contains verbal dissoziation, alienation, montoring, irony, and not at least the documentation of the evil.

Keywords

• language and national socialism
• history of language as a history of human relations
• the verbal strategies of dealing with extreme and existential situations.