ABSTRACT

In this study, I analyse a commemorative gathering “The White Armbands Day” which works as the reperformance of dehumanizing practices dating back to the 1992–1995 war in Bosnia–Herzegovina. The commemoration specifically presents a request for the construction of a monument for the 102 killed children in Prijedor, the third largest municipality in the Serb Republic entity. The study is structured as a transdisciplinary reading (Halliday 2001. “New Ways of Meaning: The Challenges to Applied Linguistics.” In The Ecolinguistics Reader: Language, Ecology and Environment, edited by Alwin Fill, and Peter Mühlhäusler. New York: Continuum. First published in Journal of Applied Linguistics 6 (1990): 7–36.) of the “living memorial” (Allen and Brown 2011. “Embodiment and Living Memorials: The Affective Labour of Remembering the 2005 London Bombings.” Memory Studies 4 (3): 312–327. doi:10.1177/1750698011402574) showing that the affective and experiencing body is key in the production of more-than-visual/verbal, highly fluid discourses of remembering. My analysis shows that public spaces materialized through living memorials accomplish their moral dimension (Waksman and Shohamy 2016. “Linguistic Landscape of Social Protests: Moving from ‘Open’ to ‘Institutional’ Spaces.” In Negotiating and Contesting Identities in Linguistic Landscapes, edited by Robert Blackwood, Elizabeth Lanza, and Hirut Woldemariam. London, New York: Bloomsburry) as they call attention to human rights and unspeakable violence, powerfully representing a resistance to the imposed memory regimes and the marginalized status that people have in their own country.

摘要

在这项研究中，我分析了一个纪念聚会“白色臂章日”，该聚会是对可追溯到 1992 年至 1995 年波斯尼亚-黑塞哥维那战争的非人化做法的重新表现。纪念活动特别提出要求为塞尔维亚共和国第三大城市普里耶多尔 (Prijedor) 的 102 名遇难儿童建造一座纪念碑。该研究的结构是跨学科阅读（Halliday 2001。“新的意义方式：应用语言学的挑战。”在生态语言学阅读器中：语言、生态和环境，由 Alwin Fill 和 Peter Mühlhäusler 编辑。纽约：连续体。首次发表于应用语言学杂志 6 (1990): 7-36.) 的“生活纪念馆”（艾伦和布朗，2011 年。“具体化和生活纪念馆：记忆 2005 年伦敦爆炸事件的情感劳动”。记忆研究4（ 3): 312–327. doi:10.1177/1750698011402574) 表明情感和体验身体是产生超越视觉/语言、高度流动的记忆话语的关键。我的分析表明，通过活生生的纪念物实现的公共空间实现了它们的道德维度（Waksman 和 Shohamy 2016。“社会抗议的语言景观：从‘开放’到‘制度’空间。”在语言景观中的谈判和竞争身份中，由 Robert Blackwood、Elizabeth Lanza 和 Hirut Woldemariam 编辑。伦敦，纽约：布卢姆斯伯里），因为他们呼吁人们关注人权和无法形容的暴力，有力地代表了对强加的记忆制度和人们在自己国家的边缘化地位的抵抗。