The Conceptualization of Counterfactuality in L1 and L2
eBook - ePub

The Conceptualization of Counterfactuality in L1 and L2

Grammatical Devices and Semantic Implications in French, Spanish and Italian

  1. 163 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Conceptualization of Counterfactuality in L1 and L2

Grammatical Devices and Semantic Implications in French, Spanish and Italian

About this book

Counterfactual thinking is a universal cognitive process in which reality is compared to an imagined view of what might have been. This type of reasoning is at the center of daily operations, as decision-making, risk preventability or blame assignment. More generally, non-factual scenarios have been defined as a crucial ingredient of desire and modern love. If the areas covered by this reasoning are so varied, the L2 learner will be led to express 'what might have been' at some point of her acquisitional itinerary. How is this reasoning expressed in French, Spanish and Italian? By the use of what lexical, syntactic and grammatical devices? Will the learner combine these devices as the native French speakers do? What are the L1 features likely to fossilize in the L2 grammar? What are the information principles governing a communicative task based on the production of counterfactual scenarios? These are some of the questions addressed by the present volume.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Table of contents
  6. Tables and figures
  7. Dedication
  8. Quote
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 Counterfactuality: a theoretical overview
  11. 2 Expressing conditionality in French, Spanish and Italian
  12. 3 Acquisition of counterfactuality in L1 and L2
  13. 4 Methodology
  14. 5 Results in L1 French, Spanish and Italian
  15. 6 Results in L2 French
  16. 7 Discussion
  17. Concluding remarks
  18. References
  19. Index