Interazioni narrate di una literacy in L2. Mandorle amare tra letteratura e case study

The main purpose of this paper is to reflect on the empirical effects that a novel such as Les amandes amères by the French writer Laurence Cossé may have on lay and professional readers. In the first part of the paper I present a theoretical framework that allows the novel, a portrayal of L2 literacy acquisition in an immigration context, to be analysed in a linguistic-didactic rather than literary perspective. I then consider some practical outcomes that a reading of the novel may produce in three types of readers: the common reader, the language teacher and the linguist.