2017
DOI: 10.1051/shsconf/20173800006
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Counterfactual Conceptualizations in L2 French: From Cognitive Principles to Semantic and Lexical Realizations

Abstract: Abstract. This preliminary survey examines how 30 native speakers and 30 Spanish learners of French evoke counterfactual scenarios from a semantic and a lexical perspective. Counterfactual thinking is a universal cognitive process in which reality is confronted with an imagined view of what might have been (Kahneman & Tversky 1982). The world as we know it is based on a set of enabling conditions that can be mutated, i.e., modified in order to evoke counterfactual worlds. This can be done by modifying various … Show more

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