Fenomeni di esitazione e forme narrative nelle interviste dell’Israelkorpus (2a generazione)

Spontaneous speech does not occur as a linear process, rather it may be fragmented and disrupted. This discontinuity is exemplified, among others, by hesitation phenomena. In an attempt to establish a relation between them and the specific dimension of the oral narration in which they occur, this article focuses on two functions they may perform, i.e. as gap markers in the verbal planning process, on the one hand, and as signals of difficulties in speech structuring because of high emotional tension, on the other hand. Given that narrative-autobiographical interviews are marked by a close link between narrating and the narrated time, a scenic-episodic narrative and a summarized-retrospective narrative will be investigated for the purposes of this study.