Analysing representations of otherness using different text‐types

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ID12112683
AuthorsElizabeth Murphy‐Lejeune (St. Patrick's Hospital, corresponding author), Albane Cain (Institut Français de l'Éducation), Claire Kramsch (0000-0003-3456-099X, University of California, Berkeley)
Year1996
Volume9
Issue1
Pages51-65
Publication date1996-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage Culture and Curriculum (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0790-8318 • E-ISSN: 1747-7573
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/07908319609525218
OpenAlexW2020080671
LanguageEN
References cited10

Foreign language learning confronts learners with the challenge of constructing new representations of other cultures and, in the process, of questioning representations of their own. In order to learn a foreign language we must first learn how to construct new representations of other cultures, and in the process, we must also learn how to revise our representations of our own culture. Yet there are few systematic approaches to this critical aspect of language learning. In this article we show how the teacher can use texts to confront learners with cultural representations. The four texts selected represent various types of discourse, a literary extract, a student essay, an advertising document and a newspaper article. The approaches which are illustrated borrow from stylistics, linguistics, and discourse analysis. The process of analysing the various representations which can be elicited from a text is presented as a possible way of increasing cultural awareness

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