Linguistic studies related to trauma are primarily interested in how traumatic events can be verbalized. This article, in contrast, focusses on ways of translating a traumatic experience into forms of symbolization that do not report on what happened but rather foreground the bodily and emotional sensations linked to (re)living such experiences. In discussing such forms of scenic presentation and condensation, I will build, inter alia, on Wittgenstein’s (1919/1997) distinction between saying and showing as well as on Langer’s (1948) distinction between discursive and presentational forms of meaning making. The close reading of a multimodal text authored by an eight-year-old schoolgirl in the context of a creative-writing activity allows us to identify poetic and artistic means that suggest a reading of the text as a ‘bottled message’ about intense feelings of fear and helplessness. In concluding I argue that Bruner’s (1986) dichotomous distinction between the paradigmatic and the narrative mode of meaning making needs to be extended by recognizing a third mode, which might be termed the presentational mode.

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瓶中信息：不可言说的风景呈现

与创伤相关的语言研究主要关注如何用语言表达创伤事件。相比之下，本文侧重于将创伤经历转化为象征形式的方法，这些形式不报告发生的事情，而是突出与（重新）生活这些经历相关的身体和情感感觉。在讨论这种风景呈现和浓缩的形式时，我将特别建立在维特根斯坦 (1919/1997) 的说和展示之间的区别以及兰格 (1948) 对意义制造的话语和表现形式之间的区别的基础上。在创意写作活动的背景下仔细阅读由一名八岁女学生创作的多模态文本，使我们能够识别诗意和艺术手段，这些手段表明将文本阅读为关于强烈感受的“瓶装信息”恐惧和无助。最后，我认为布鲁纳 (1986) 对意义制造的范式和叙事模式之间的二分区别需要通过承认第三种模式来扩展，这可能被称为表现模式。