EAN: 9783039115693

LANGUAGE PRACTICES AND IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION BY...

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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