Linguistic autobiographies: towards the creation of a multilingual resource family

This paper describes a project aimed at adding a new type of corpus to the CLARIN resource family tree, called ‘linguistic autobiographies’. In a linguistic autobiography the writer explicitly reflects on the relationship between him/herself and the language. This genre is fruitfully used in different educational settings, and research has shown that it helps to uncover the social, affective, and psychological dimensions of language learning. The potential of a multilingual collection is discussed starting from Italian data.