@inproceedings{flinz-leonardi-2024-dates,
    title = "Dates and places as points of attachment for memorial contents in the {ISW} corpus: 1938 as a turning point",
    author = "Flinz, Carolina  and
      Leonardi, Simona",
    editor = "Anuradha, Isuri  and
      Wynne, Martin  and
      Frontini, Francesca  and
      Plum, Alistair",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the First Workshop on Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources (HTRes) @ LREC-COLING 2024",
    month = may,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Torino, Italia",
    publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/2024.htres-1.4/",
    pages = "29--36",
    abstract = "Aim of the paper is the identification and subsequent analysis of crisis years in the narrative biographical interviews with German speaking Jews from the corpus ISW (Emigrantendeutsch in Israel: Wiener in Jerusalem/ Migrant German in Israel: Viennese in Jerusalem); also the possible {\textquotedblleft}chronological landmarks{\textquotedblright} within a year will be tackled, investigating how a certain year {--} 1938 {--} represents in the life story of the narrators a turning point, as it clusters most traumatic events linked to the Shoah. The transcripts were analysed using the tool Sketch Engine. An alternation of corpus-driven and corpus-based steps characterizes this study, which uses a quantitative-qualitative approach (see Lemnitzer and Zinsmeister, 2015) and integrates also approaches from narrative analysis. The research questions that guide our investigation are as follows: Are there any special dates that recur as chronological landmarks of crisis situations (Leonardi 2023a)? Which are they? Do they recur in connection with special places? which ones?"
}