出版社：EDUFU - Editora da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia
摘要：The globalization discourses about a foreign language constitute a strong external motivation to the foreign language learning. The foreign language appears in such discourses as a franchise of advantages to whoever “masters” it, which turns it into a quite desirable language. However, learning a language does not depend solely on motivation or methodology issues. Facing another language usually causes strangeness and the alterity provided by the foreign language affects the learner’s construction of their subjectivities. Based on the interface between the French theory of discourse analysis and the psychoanalysis concepts on the subject, the issue of foreign language learning is analised through some extracts of the apprentice-subjects’ learning stories. The aim is to focus the role of desire in such process. Being able to say oneself in the Other’s language could be a strong desire underlying the foreing language process. This desire might move the apprentice-subjects and may help unveil the nature of some conflicts of the learning process.
