ABSTRACT
With the subjective turn in language study (see Kramsch 2009b, 2012) applied linguists have been focusing on language learners’ emotions, perceptions, and memories, as vividly captured by published language memoirs, narrative testimonies, and other autobiographical accounts of multilingual individuals and immigrants. Such a focus has responded to the desire to validate the linguistic and cultural experiences of nonnative speakers striving to acquire the native speakers’ dominant language, and to give a voice to learners that are often minority immigrants in powerful industrialized societies. These efforts aim to strengthen the ability of autochthones and newcomers to understand each other across cultural divides.
