Selves in two languages : bilinguals' verbal enactments of identity in French and Portuguese / Michèle Koven.

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Koven, Michèle

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9789027291899
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P115.4 .K68 2007eb

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Selves in Two Languages; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Transcription conventions; I. THEORETICAL AND ETHNOGRAPHIC CONTEXT; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. DISCOURSE-SEMIOTIC APPROACHES TO BILINGUAL SELFHOOD; 3. ETHNOGRAPHIC AND SOCIOLINGUISTIC CONTEXTS OF LUSODESCENDANTSIN FRANCE AND PORTUGAL; II. BILINGUALS' IDENTITY PERFORMANCE; 4. BILINGUALS' REFLECTIONS ABOUT THE IMPACT OF TWO LANGUAGES ON CONTEXT AND SELF; 5. ENACTING BILINGUAL SELVES IN NARRATIVE: NARRATIVE ELICITATION AND ANALYTIC FRAMEWORK.

6. ENACTING BILINGUAL SELVES IN NARRATIVE: RESULTS OF NARRATIVE ANALYSIS OF VOICING7. LISTENERS' PERCEPTIONS OF BILINGUALS IN EACH LANGUAGE; III. INDIVIDUAL SPEAKER PROFILES; 8. TERESA; 9. ISABEL; 10. CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; APPENDIX A: DESCRIPTION OF ENTRY INTO FIELD AND FIELD SITES; APPENDIX B: PARTICIPANTS' BACKGROUNDS; APPENDIX C: CODED TRANSCRIPTS OF TERESA'S STORY PAIR; APPENDIX D: TERESA'S OVERALL PROFILE; APPENDIX E: CODED TRANSCRIPTS OF ISABEL'S STORY PAIR; APPENDIX F: ISABEL'S OVERALL PROFILE; INDEX; The series Studies in Bilingualism (SiBil).

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Summary: Bilinguals often report that they feel like a different person in their two languages. In the words of one bilingual in Koven's book, "When I speak Portuguese, automatically, I'm in a different world it's a different color." Although testimonials like this abound in everyday conversation among bilinguals, there has been scant systematic investigation of this intriguing phenomenon. Focusing on French-Portuguese bilinguals, the adult children of Portuguese migrants in France, this book provides an empirically grounded, theoretical account of how the same speakers enact, experience, and are perce.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-282) and index.

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Bilinguals often report that they feel like a different person in their two languages. In the words of one bilingual in Koven's book, "When I speak Portuguese, automatically, I'm in a different world it's a different color." Although testimonials like this abound in everyday conversation among bilinguals, there has been scant systematic investigation of this intriguing phenomenon. Focusing on French-Portuguese bilinguals, the adult children of Portuguese migrants in France, this book provides an empirically grounded, theoretical account of how the same speakers enact, experience, and are perce.

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