Abstract This study explores how 16 individuals who grew up during the four-year long military siege of the city employ language to make sense of their everyday experiences in Sarajevo following the conclusion of the Bosnian War. Narrative inquiry is employed in this work to study sense-making, a psychological process based in language and situated in interaction with extant social and physical landscapes. During the study, participants wrote responses across the three narrative contexts (1) the prewar, (2) the acute war, and (3) the postwar. Data analyses examine how participants enact ecological landscape in narrative construction through varied use of prepositions across the three narrative contexts. Significantly higher use of prepositions in the acute war narrative context indicates that growing up amidst urban destruction gives rise to thought processes that draw on spatial and temporal relations in order to make sense of radical environmental changes in the landscape of war.

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叙事思想中的生态景观

摘要 本研究探讨了在长达四年的城市军事围困中长大的 16 个人如何使用语言来理解他们在波斯尼亚战争结束后在萨拉热窝的日常经历。这项工作采用叙事探究来研究意义建构，这是一种基于语言并与现存社会和自然景观互动的心理过程。在研究期间，参与者在三个叙事背景（1）战前，（2）激烈的战争和（3）战后写了回应。数据分析检查参与者如何通过在三个叙事语境中不同使用介词来在叙事构建中营造生态景观。