Language Practices and Identity Construction by Multilingual Speakers of French L2: The Acquisition of Sociostylistic Variation (Modern French Identities) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3039115693 ISBN 13: 9783039115693

Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2010

Synopsis

This book presents six new studies on identity construction in the speech of older adolescents and young adults learning French. It takes a sociolinguistic approach to acquisition. First language sociolinguistic research has shown that identity construction is particularly intense during adolescence and young adulthood, and language use has been found to be an especially key resource in this dynamic construction. The contributors examine the language practices of L2, L3 and L4 speakers in multilingual and multicultural societies in Ireland, Canada, Belgium and France in order to demonstrate their use in identity construction. Several contexts of language acquisition for multilingual speakers are examined and compared, including formal and naturalistic settings for acquisition and learning. The book also investigates the speech of learners at upper-intermediate and advanced stages of acquisition of French to provide a holistic view of the way individuals use the language resources available to them to stake a claim to a new multilingual identity in their target language networks. The papers in this book combine qualitative and quantitative data on French speech and the context in which it occurs to provide detailed pictures of the co-construction of identity and complex speech patterns by multilingual speakers of French.

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About the Author

The Editors: Vera Regan, Chevalier de l’ordre des palmes académiques, is Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics, in French and Francophone Studies at University College Dublin. She publishes on sociolinguistics and second language acquisition, acquistion of sociolinguistic competence, French L2, variation in French including French-Canadian forms. She is former President of EUROSLA (European Association for Second Language Research) and President of the Association for Canadian Studies in Ireland.
Caitríona Ní Chasaide is a Programme Specialist in Tipperary Institute where she has lectured in French and Irish since the inception of the Institute. She researches second and third language acquisition of Irish and French, and sociolinguistic variation in French and Irish in the French Department at University College Dublin.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3039115693
• ISBN 13: 9783039115693
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 177
• Editor: Ní Chasaide Caitríona, Regan Vera