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N°Spécial De Revue/Special Issue Langage, Interaction et Acquisition / Language, Interaction and Acquisition Année : 2012

Typological perspectives on language and thought: Thinking for speaking in L2

Perspectives typologiques sur l’acquisition d’une langue seconde: ‘Penser pour Parler’ en L2

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This special issue aims to explore the implications of Slobin’s (1996) ‘Thinking for Speaking’ framework for second language (L2) acquisition. Papers in the issue address the question as to whether and under what conditions language-specific ways of thinking and talking about events and situations can be restructured during L2 acquisition. Slobin has coined the expression ‘Thinking for Speaking’ to refer to the specific ways in which thinking is mobilized for language production during the message planning phase. Verbalizing any situation faces the speaker with a series of choices, such as deciding which aspects of the situation to express, how to express them, and in which order. These choices are, at least partly, constrained by the typological features of each language. Speakers’ native language provides them with specific lexical and grammatical options for the linguistic encoding of the intended message. The interactions found between their choices in language production and the typological constraints offered by the language spoken has led Slobin to propose the ‘Thinking for Speaking’ hypothesis, according to which different languages predispose their speakers to view and talk about events differently.
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Sandra Benazzo, Monique Flecken, Efstathia Soroli. Typological perspectives on language and thought: Thinking for speaking in L2. Langage, Interaction et Acquisition / Language, Interaction and Acquisition , 3 (2), 300 p., 2012, ⟨10.1075/lia.3.2⟩. ⟨hal-03130818⟩
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