
Language Learner Narrative
An Exploration of Muendigkeit in Intercultural Literature
Helen O'Sullivan(Author)
Rodopi (Publisher)
Published on 1. January 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
312 pages
978-90-420-3785-4 (ISBN)
Description
Increasing numbers of people have contact with other cultures and languages Language Learner Narrative examines representations of this phenomenon in literary texts using an applied linguistic approach. This analysis of written narratives of language learning and cross-cultural encounter complements objective studies in intercultural communication and second language acquisition research.
Kant's use of the term Muendigkeit in his essay "What is Enlightenment?" is used to frame the complex issues of language, identity, meaning and reality presented by the texts. Augmented by Pierre Bourdieu's concept of linguistic capital, this framing forms a counterpoint to the positioning of these authors as "avatar[s] of poststructuralist wisdom" (Eva Hoffman).
The work includes a uniquely detailed linguistic analysis of Emine Sevgi OEzdamar's Mutter Zunge, and further texts by other widely studied and less familiar authors (Yoko Tawada, Eva Hoffman, Vassilis Alexakis, Ze Do Rock). It also lists literary sources of language learner narrative.
Through its fundamental examination of what and how language means to us as individuals, this volume will be of wide appeal to students and researchers in applied linguistics, second language acquisition, intercultural communication and literary studies.
Kant's use of the term Muendigkeit in his essay "What is Enlightenment?" is used to frame the complex issues of language, identity, meaning and reality presented by the texts. Augmented by Pierre Bourdieu's concept of linguistic capital, this framing forms a counterpoint to the positioning of these authors as "avatar[s] of poststructuralist wisdom" (Eva Hoffman).
The work includes a uniquely detailed linguistic analysis of Emine Sevgi OEzdamar's Mutter Zunge, and further texts by other widely studied and less familiar authors (Yoko Tawada, Eva Hoffman, Vassilis Alexakis, Ze Do Rock). It also lists literary sources of language learner narrative.
Through its fundamental examination of what and how language means to us as individuals, this volume will be of wide appeal to students and researchers in applied linguistics, second language acquisition, intercultural communication and literary studies.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
422 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-3785-4 (9789042037854)
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Person
Helen O'Sullivan is currently lecturing in German at Trinity College Dublin where she gained her PhD on language learner narrative in 2009 and her M.Phil in German Literature and Language Pedagogy in 2005. She holds an M.A. in Modern and Mediaeval Languages from Cambridge University. Since 2002 she has taught in English as a Foreign Language, Adult Literacy, German Linguistics, Intercultural Communication and the History of Ideas. Her main research interests lie in intercultural communication and intercultural literature.
Content
Acknowledgements
Chapter One: Muendigkeit in the Contemporary Context: A Prolegomenon
Chapter Two: On Language Memoir? A Review of the Secondary Literature
Chapter Three: Conceptualizing the Language Learner
Chapter Four: Linguistics and Literature: Methodological Considerations
Chapter Five: Muendigkeit and the Linguistic Construction of the Subject
Chapter Six: Loss of Muendigkeit in Emine Sevgi OEzdamar's Mutter Zunge
Chapter Seven: The Use of Language in Mutter Zunge
Chapter Eight: Autonomy Abroad: Metaphors of Muendigkeit in Language Learner Narrative
Chapter Nine: Language Play and Metamuendigkeit in Language Learner Narrative
Chapter Ten: Concluding Thoughts
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
Chapter One: Muendigkeit in the Contemporary Context: A Prolegomenon
Chapter Two: On Language Memoir? A Review of the Secondary Literature
Chapter Three: Conceptualizing the Language Learner
Chapter Four: Linguistics and Literature: Methodological Considerations
Chapter Five: Muendigkeit and the Linguistic Construction of the Subject
Chapter Six: Loss of Muendigkeit in Emine Sevgi OEzdamar's Mutter Zunge
Chapter Seven: The Use of Language in Mutter Zunge
Chapter Eight: Autonomy Abroad: Metaphors of Muendigkeit in Language Learner Narrative
Chapter Nine: Language Play and Metamuendigkeit in Language Learner Narrative
Chapter Ten: Concluding Thoughts
Appendices
Bibliography
Index