Unfocussed Language Acquisition? The Presentation of Linguistic Situations in Biographical Narration

Against the background of the turn towards constructivism and its impact on the current discussion of methodology, the author of the article reconstructs the specific, interactive plausibilization that autobiographical narrative achieves. The analysis focuses on those sequences where the narrator de...

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Main Author: Rita Franceschini
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: FQS 2003-09-01
Series:Forum: Qualitative Social Research
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Online Access:http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/667
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Summary:Against the background of the turn towards constructivism and its impact on the current discussion of methodology, the author of the article reconstructs the specific, interactive plausibilization that autobiographical narrative achieves. The analysis focuses on those sequences where the narrator describes her language acquisition processes. Behavioural data (her elaborate knowledge of German, which is obvious throughout the interview) are contrasted with the account of her crucial experiences where she states having acquired German mainly through the medium of television. The specific role of suffering is highlighted and connected to results from the field of language acquisition research and related to the narrator, demonstrating how closely successful acquisition and emotions are related to each other. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0303192
ISSN:1438-5627