My foreign body: exploring lived experiences of speaking a foreign language

Pérez Cavana, Maria Luisa (2023). My foreign body: exploring lived experiences of speaking a foreign language. Language and Intercultural Communication [Early Access].

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2023.2250756

Abstract

The significance of the body in learning and speaking a foreign language is an under-researched topic in a field characterized by a strong focus on cognition and sociolinguistics. This paper is designed to contribute to a newly emerging line of inquiry addressing the move away from the pure linguistic approach towards a more humanistic perspective. Within this context, phenomenology has been considered both as a relevant and as an under-researched approach. This article contributes to the current research on foreign languages studies by expanding our understanding of what it means to speak a language as experienced in the body.

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• Item ORO ID
• 92628
• Item Type
• Journal Item
• ISSN
• 1470-8477
• Keywords
• foreign language speaking; bodily awareness; lived experience; primacy of sound; phenomenology
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Languages and Applied Linguistics > Languages
  Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Languages and Applied Linguistics
  Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS)
• Research Group
• Applied Linguistics and Literacies Research Group
• Copyright Holders
• © 2023 The Author(s)
• Depositing User
• Maria Luisa Pérez Cavana