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Narrativa identiteter och levande metaforer i ett andraspråksperspektiv

Publicerad:2015-01-14
Uppdaterad:2015-04-01

Katrin Ahlgren har i sin avhandling undersökt hur några personer förhåller sig till svenska språket och till sig själva som andraspråkstalare med hjälp av begreppet narrativ identitet. Hon har också undersökt andraspråkstalarnas metaforanvändning.

Författare

Katrin Ahlgren

Handledare

Professor Inger Lindberg, Stockholms universitet, docent Marie Carlson, Göteborgs universitet

Opponent

Professor Lena Ekberg, Stockholms universitet

Disputerat vid

Stockholms universitet

Disputationsdag

2014-12-17

Titel (se)

Narrativa identiteter och levande metaforer i ett andraspråksperspektiv

Institution

Insitutionen för språkdidaktik

Abstract in English

This thesis consists of two separate yet connected studies which investigate how some adult second language speakers of Swedish with various backgrounds reflect on their experiences of language use. The studies are based on the same empirical data, which consists of questionnaires, diaries, essays and observations, but primarily of conversations conducted with a time interval of six years. This data is analysed from a theoretical framework based on Paul Ricœur’s ideas of interpretation, narrative analysis and identity creation, which recur as a leitmotif throughout the thesis.

In the first study, data from three second language speakers are analysed by means of the concept of narrative identity, shedding light on the interplay between a static and a dynamic identity. The result is presented in the form of life narratives, which are commented on in relation to those strategies the participants express in relation to their second language use. The analysis shows a development over time moving from defiance to acceptance, from avoidance to flexibility and from planning to simplification. Adult language learning stands out as an arduous and time-consuming process with major consequences for the learner’s ego, a conclusion confirmed and clarified in the metaphor analysis of the second study in which language learning is related to hard work, a constant struggle and a long and strenuous journey. Here it also becomes evident that the participants equate language learning and language use to physical exertion and challenge as well as to individual achievement. This becomes particularly clear in the linked chains of metaphors in which language use is compared with skiing down the steepest slopes or appearing on stage.

The participants in both studies are quoted by means of an ethnopoetic method which aims to bring out the creative aspects of their language use and to give second language speakers a voice – a voice which does not need to be corrected and gives the narratives a new dimension.

 

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