Se raconter pour changer ?

Abstract

This article looks back on a collective research experience based on the analysis of language biographies. The aim is to problematize certain commonplaces concerning the narrativity of these biographies and the supposed benefit of reflexive storytelling for foreign or second language acquisition. Without entering the field of applied linguistics or didactology, this article aims more modestly to reflect, from a narratological perspective, on the link that can be established between the narrativity of these discourses and the subject's capacity for identity reconfigurations. In particular, it will discuss a central argument of the Ricoeurian thesis, which consists in affirming that narrative gives meaning and form to the lived experience and that identity reconfigurations are based on a process of emplotment.

Keywords

• biographie langagière
• identité narrative
• Paul Ricoeur
• Thérèse Jeanneret
• didactique
• FLE