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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: The subjective dimension of language | |
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| Yet another book on the multilingual subject? | |
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| Language as symbolic form | |
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| Language as symbolic power | |
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| The power of the performative | |
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| The power of ritual | |
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| The power of myth | |
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| Symbolic power and subjectivity in language | |
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| Perception and desire | |
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| Subjectivity, intersubjectivity, subject position | |
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| Subjectivity | |
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| Intersubjectivity | |
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| Subject position | |
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| Organization of the book | |
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| The signifying self | |
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| Perception: the neglected dimension in language learning | |
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| Perceptual similitude and analogical thinking | |
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| From word to thought | |
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| Connotation as denotation | |
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| The power of analogy | |
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| Signs and their meanings in language learners' journals | |
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| Signifying practices in fairy tales | |
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| Semiotic theory: symbolic models of the self | |
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| The signifying self | |
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| Serious life of the self | |
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| Symbolic self as real self | |
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| Cognitive linguistics theory: idealized cognitive models of the self | |
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| Blended space theory | |
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| Symbolic activity in SLA research | |
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| The embodied self | |
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| Testimonies from language memoirs | |
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| Metaphors by which we learn languages | |
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| General observations | |
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| Learning a language is like... | |
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| Somatic theories of the self | |
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| Body and mind | |
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| Images and representations | |
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| Emotions and feelings | |
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| Ecological theories of the self | |
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| The missing link: the narratorial self | |
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| Understanding the embodied self in language | |
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| The subject in process | |
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| Testimonies from language memoirs | |
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| The absent other | |
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| The other as object of desire | |
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| Testimonies from linguistic autobiographies | |
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| Alienation/separation | |
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| Desire | |
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| In-process/on trial | |
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| Psychoanalytic/semiotic theories of self and other in language | |
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| The language of the Other | |
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| Subject-in-process | |
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| Remodeling the symbolic order | |
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| The political promise of the symbolic | |
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| The multilingual social actor | |
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| From experiencing language to doing language with others | |
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| Reframing the questions | |
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| John: The symbolic power of the habitus | |
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| The power of ideal cognitive models | |
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| Hanif: language as resignifying practice | |
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| ESL students: symbolic violence and oppositional tactics | |
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| Camila: the power of narrative structure | |
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| The power of narrative genre in the construction of the subject | |
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| Doing language as a multilingual subject | |
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| The multilingual narrator | |
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| Exterior and interior landscapes of the heart | |
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| No Man's Grove and Learning English | |
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| Jocelyn's text | |
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| Metamorphoses and reincarnations | |
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| Kafka A Report for an Academy | |
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| Estella's text | |
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| Survivors and tricksters | |
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| Kilito Dog Words | |
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| Sean's text | |
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| The avatars of the multilingual narrator | |
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| Brooke-Rose Between | |
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| Zoe's text | |
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| Discussion | |
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| The virtual self | |
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| From personal diary to electronic blog | |
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| Three models of language, three modes of subjectivity | |
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| From self offline to self online: what has changed? | |
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| Multilingual chats online | |
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| The intercultural communicator online | |
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| Space: presence-absence | |
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| Time: reversibility | |
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| Reality: from the real to the hyperreal | |
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| Who's the real me? Hyperreality and the construction of the online subject | |
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| Where's the real me? The thrills and anxieties of the networked self | |
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| 'Liberated' communication? | |
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| The anxieties of the networked self | |
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| The future of the multilingual subject online | |
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| Teaching the multilingual subject | |
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| Expanding the symbolic self | |
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| Modeling symbolic action | |
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| The critical/reflexive approach | |
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| The creative/narrative approach | |
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| Developing symbolic competence | |
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| Teaching the multilingual subject | |
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| Pace | |
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| Rhythm | |
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| Multimodality, multiple perspectives | |
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| Translation | |
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| Engagement | |
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| Desire | |
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| Transgression | |
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| Pleasure | |
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| Teacher subjectivity | |
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| Teaching as modeling | |
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| The value of repetition | |
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| The value of silences | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |