Michèle Koven

List of John Benjamins publications in which Michèle Koven is involved.

Title

Selves in Two Languages: Bilinguals’ verbal enactments of identity in French and Portuguese

Michèle Koven

Bilinguals often report that they feel like a different person in their two languages. In the words of one bilingual in Koven’s book, “When I speak Portuguese, automatically, I'm in a different world…it's a different color.” Although testimonials like this abound in everyday conversation among… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 34] 2007. xi, 327 pp.

Articles

Simões Marques, Isabelle and Michèle Koven 2019 “We are going to our Portuguese homeland!”: French Luso-descendants’ diasporic Facebook conarrations of vacation return trips to Portugal Storytelling in the Digital World, De Fina, Anna and Sabina M. Perrino (eds.), pp. 79–103 | Chapter

This article combines the study of online narratives as social practices and the linguistic anthropological study of imagined communities, to examine a set of non-canonical narrative practices in a Facebook group for the Portuguese diaspora in France. Instead of reports of individual members’… read more

Simões Marques, Isabelle and Michèle Koven 2017 “We are going to our Portuguese homeland!”: French Luso-descendants’ diasporic Facebook conarrations of vacation return trips to Portugal Storytelling in the Digital Age: New challenges, De Fina, Anna and Sabina M. Perrino (eds.), pp. 286–310 | Article

This article combines the study of online narratives as social practices and the linguistic anthropological study of imagined communities, to examine a set of non-canonical narrative practices in a Facebook group for the Portuguese diaspora in France. Instead of reports of individual members’… read more