Transgressions discursives : construction d’identités et de savoir-faire sociaux en classe de L2
Discursive Transgressions: Construing the Identity and Social Skills in the Foreign Language Classroom

Summary/Abstract: Communication under formal conditions is a type of a peculiar institutional discourse; one of its most important features is an asymmetric division of roles and interactive places. However, observations of communication micro-sequences in a foreign language group show that interlocutors having a hierarchically lower position (learners) make attempts to question the order by going out of the IRE structure (initiation – reaction – evaluation). On examples selected from a corpus of foreign language classes collected in several Polish schools (French as a foreign language) communication behaviors are shown that are defined here as discursive transgressions, and we analyze them with respect to their possible effect on the process of a foreign language acquisition.

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