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This article deals with narratives of traumatic experiences of parental violence in childhood, told by adult narrators in the context of clinical adult attachment interviews. The study rests on a corpus of interviews with 20 patients suffering from fibromyalgia, who were interviewed in the context of psychodynamic psychotherapy. Nine of the patients reported repeated experiences of parental violence. The article focuses on extracts from two interviews, which provide for a maximal contrast concerning the practices of telling experiences of violence and which are ‘clear cases’ of the practices that are characteristic of the whole corpus. The main differences between the different ways of telling concern:
• With respect to the ascription of guilt and responsibility, parental violence is portrayed as legitimate pedagogic action versus as being evil-minded and guilty without rational justification.
• With respect to the process of the telling, we find narrative trajectories over which an initial vague gloss is increasingly unpacked by reports of highly violent actions versus narratives in which violence is overtly stated and morally ascribed from its very first mention.
This paper presents one aspect of the communicative repertoire of a group of young migrant women in Mannheim, the use of 'Gastarbeiterdeutsch'. This is the German variety used by the first generation of working migrants in Germany. For the young women of the second generation this speech variety is not part of their 'we'-code. In discourse with members of their parents' generation and with Germans, the young women use this speech variety in specific socio-symbolic functions. On the basis of some discourse examples, the interactively constructed meaning of 'Gastarbeiterdeutsch' is analytically reconstructed, and the relation between 'Gastarbeiterdeutsch' and relevant social categories is elaborated.