THE ROLE OF SECOND LANGUAGE IN NEGOTIATING EMOTIONS AND IDENTITY

Marianna Machata ()
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Marianna Machata: Alba Regia University Centre, University of Óbuda, Hungary

Romanian Economic Business Review, 2013, vol. 8, issue 4.1, 139-156

Abstract: The paper, which is a part of a longitudinal study, deals with my own child’s, Sarah’s second language acquisition (SLA) with the special focus on how the child benefits from the strategic use of language in a dual (Hungarian-English) linguistic environment. The recorded data shed light on the interaction between her two languages focusing on communicative intentions and her identity transformations in the dual language acquisition process. The recorded discourse pieces reveal the evolution of her acceptance of the shared interpretation of language separation. I apply a functional analysis of her oral language production, drawing on the data retrieved from the structured retrospective interviews I conducted with her to find evidence of her motives in appeals to second language (L2). While analysing my dataset I identify patterns in her using L2 as a complementary set of linguistic forms to differentiate shades of meanings and negotiate her identity.

Keywords: communicative intentions; identity transformations; dual language acquisition; language separation; a complementary set of linguistic forms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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