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Article Dans Une Revue Langage, Interaction et Acquisition / Language, Interaction and Acquisition Année : 2012

Typological perspectives on second language acquisition

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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 whetherand under what conditions language-specific ways of thinking and talking about events and situationscan be restructured during L2 acquisition. Slobin has coined the expression ‘Thinking for speaking’ torefer to the specific ways in which thinking is mobilized for language production during the messageplanning phase. Verbalizing any situation faces the speaker with a series of choices, such as decidingwhich 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 languageprovides them with specific lexical and grammatical options for the linguistic encoding of the intendedmessage. The interactions found between their choices in language production and the typologicalconstraints offered by the language spoken has lead Slobin to propose the ‘Thinking for speaking’hypothesis, according to which different languages predispose their speakers to view and talk aboutevents differently.
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hal-04360846 , version 1 (21-12-2023)

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Sandra Benazzo, Monique Flecken, Efstathia Soroli. Typological perspectives on second language acquisition. Langage, Interaction et Acquisition / Language, Interaction and Acquisition , 2012, 3 (2), pp.163-172. ⟨10.1075/lia.3.2.01int⟩. ⟨hal-04360846⟩
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