Between Acquiring and Learning a Language: Subjectivity and Polyphony

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  • Maria José Coracini Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Keywords:

Dialogism, Foreign Language, Mother Tongue, Deconstruction, Discourse, Subjectivity

Abstract

This paper aims at discussing and deconstructing dichotomies such as learning/acquisition, mother tongue/foreign language, drawing upon a corpus extracted from reports of ten foreign language speakers. In general, they learned (grasped) those languages in informal situations or, as they say, in autodidactic ones. The analysis was based on the discursive-deconstructive perspective, which includes thinkers such as Bakhtin, Foucault, Derrida and Lacan, who share concepts of language, subject and culture. The analysis has allowed us to realize that when talking about how they learned the foreign language(s), the majority of the participants only consider strategies, (formal and informal) methodologies, the means used to have access to the other person's language-culture, forgetting that entering the other's language presupposes the desire that manifests itself in the love for the language(s) and for the other.

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Author Biography

Maria José Coracini, Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem, Departamento de Linguística Aplicada. Professor Titular em Ensino/Aprendizagem de Língua Estrangeira

Published

2014-11-21

How to Cite

Coracini, M. J. (2014). Between Acquiring and Learning a Language: Subjectivity and Polyphony. Bakhtiniana. Revista De Estudos Do Discurso, 9(2), Port. 4–24 / Eng. 5. Retrieved from https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/bakhtiniana/article/view/20176

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