Publications

Publication details [#53715]

Coffey, Simon. 2010. Stories of Frenchness: becoming a Francophile. Language and Intercultural Communication 10 (2) : 119–136.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contextualization | experience | foreign language acquisition | language and culture | narrative

Language as a subject

French

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This study employs the concept of 'interpretative repertoires' to demonstrate how British adult learners of French situate their life-story accounts in wider cultural discourses (a 'Francophile repertoire') to frame their Frenchness experience.