Language Learner Narrative: An Exploration of Mündigkeit in Intercultural Literature - Paperback

by Helen O'Sullivan (Author)

This book examines representations of intercultural language contact in literary texts using an applied linguistic approach. Kant's use of the term Mündigkeit is used to frame the complex issues of language, identity, meaning and reality presented by the texts.

Author Biography

Helen O'Sullivan is currently lecturing in German at Trinity College Dublin where she gained her PhD on language learner narrative in 2009 and her M.Phil in German Literature and Language Pedagogy in 2005. She holds an M.A. in Modern and Mediaeval Languages from Cambridge University. Since 2002 she has taught in English as a Foreign Language, Adult Literacy, German Linguistics, Intercultural Communication and the History of Ideas. Her main research interests lie in intercultural communication and intercultural literature.