Language Learning and the Mother Tongue

Sara Greaves is Associate Professor in 20th and 21st century British Poetry, Translation Studies and Creative Writing. She has published a book on James Fenton (2016), and was co-winner of the Mustela Prize in social pediatrics for a Plurilingual Creative Writing Workshop in a Medical Centre (2014). Monique De Mattia-Viviès is Professor of English linguistics. She has widely published in the field of Free Indirect Speech, and one of her books was awarded the Prix de la recherche by the SAES in 2006. She has recently published three grammar books for advanced students of English (2018 and 2019).

Introduction Sara Greaves and Monique De Mattia-Viviès; Part I. The Mother Tongue and Second Language Learning. 1. Entering into Language and into Languages: from the Mother Tongue to the (M)other Tongue Monique De Mattia-Viviès; 2. One Mother Tongue – or Two? Jean-Jacques Lecercle; 3. Embracing the Bilingual Overlap in Creative Second Language Learning Sara Greaves; Part II. From the Mother Tongue to the Second Mother Tongue. 4. Language Diversity: Time for a New Paradigm Marie Rose Moro and Rahmeth Radjack; 5. Ohé, The Silent Teenager Nathalie Enkelaar; 6. Accent – a Ghost in the Language Alain Fleischer; Part III. The Second Mother Tongue as a (M)other Tongue and the Return to the Body. 7. The Sea of Language Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt; 8. Samuel Beckett's Change of Literary Language: An Apparent Severing of Links to Continue Writing on the Maternal Side of Language Yoann Loisel; 9. Language, the Brain and Relating Boris Cyrulnik; Subject Index; Name Index.