« La langue » : créer encore et en corps
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Date
2025
Authors
Suchet, Myriam
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Department of German, University College Cork
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French as foreignized tongue: an unlearning kit to create with/in the body. As soon as you consider learning a language as an act of creation, you have to change the way you teach. It is not enough to step away from a normative approach and even to tolerate or praise diversity: differences are to be seen as constitutive and modifying, transformative (Authier-Revuz, 2004). Speaking and writing tend towards what is yet to be and hence, fundamentally, misunderstandings (Servais, 2009). Shifting to a heterolingual paradigm (Grutman, 1997 ; Sakai, 1997 ; Suchet, 2014) has led me to translate French into frenches and to estrange FLE as a foreignized tongue (Suchet, 2021). Still, inherited positions and codes remain, especially when teaching. This is why I developed an unlearning kit together with designers Alice Ferré and Élise (Les tables des matières) and graphist Pierre Tandille. In this text, I would like to focus on how the experience of activating this kit reveals the fundamental implications of the body in relationship to “the language”.
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Language , Creativity , Embodiment , Research-action-creation , Heterolingualism , Foreignized tongue , Artists , Unlearning , Kit , Body
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Suchet, M. (2025) '« La langue » : créer encore et en corps', Scenario: A Journal of Performative Teaching, Learning, Research, 19(1), pp. 60-80. https://doi.org/10.33178/scenario.19.1.4