Social indexicality and L2 speech development

Underexplored dynamic routes in psycholinguistics

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https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-4301.2023.1.44429

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L2 speech, Psycholinguistics, Social indexicality

Abstract

The propensity to see language as a construction that provides social cues has great implications for both societal structure and human psychological processes, including first and second language development and attrition. In this regard, social indexicality, for instance, has been shown to play a crucial role in L2 speech development. Even though some branches of linguistics embrace social indexicality in their machinery and predictions (e.g., sociolinguistics, sociophonetics), the addition of social variables in the area of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and in Psycholinguistics might be seen as recent and limited. Considering that psycholinguistics should start including social indexicality when addressing language learning, this theoretical research article aims at exploring and drawing attention to the relationship between psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics with regard to L2 speech development. In order to do so, it provides an outline of the research agenda of L2 speech development as situated in psycholinguistics. It then discusses the role of social indexicality in bilingual development. Finally, the article advocates the Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST) as a fruitful paradigm to anchor such an interface, since it includes both cognitive and social aspects in its core.

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Felipe Flores Kupske, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Instituto de Letras, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil.

Doutor em Letras pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), em Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil. Professor do Departamento de Lí nguas Modernas da UFRGS e professor permanente do Programa de Pó s-Graduaçã o em Letras (PPGLET-UFRGS) e do Programa de Pó s-Graduaçã o em Lí ngua e Cultura (PPGLinC) da Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA).

Reiner Vinicius Perozzo, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Instituto de Letras, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil

Doutor em Letras pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), em Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil. Professor no Departamento de Lí nguas Modernas do Instituto de Letras da mesma universidade.

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2023-11-22

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Kupske, F. F., & Perozzo, R. V. (2023). Social indexicality and L2 speech development : Underexplored dynamic routes in psycholinguistics. Letrônica, 16(1), e44429. https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-4301.2023.1.44429

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