Do bi- and multilinguals perceive themselves differently in their respective languages? Do they experience different emotions? How do they express emotions and do they have a favourite language for emotional expression? How are emotion words and concepts represented in the bi- and multilingual lexicons? This ground-breaking book opens up a new field of study, bilingualism and emotions, and provides intriguing answers to these and many related questions.
Table of Content
Preface
1. Bilingual Selves – Aneta Pavlenko
2. Language and Emotional Experience – Mary Besemeres (Australian Research Institute)
3. A Passion for English: Desire and the Language Market – Ingrid Piller (Basel University) and Kimie Takahashi (The University of Sydney)
4. Feeling in Two Languages – Michèle Koven (University of Illinois)
5. Expressing Anger in Multiple Languages – Jean-Marc Dewaele (University of London)
6. Joking Across Languages – Jyotsna Vaid (Texas A&M University)
7. Translating ‘Guilt’ – Alexia Panayiotou (University of Cyprus)
8. Envy and Jealousy in Russian and English – Olga Stepanova Sachs and John Coley (Northeastern University)
9. Cognitive Approaches to the Study of Emotion-laden and Emotion Words in Monolingual and Bilingual Memory – Jeanette Altarriba (University at Albany)
10. When is a First Language More Emotional? – Catherine Harris (Boston University), Jean Berko Gleason (Boston University) and Ayse Aycicegi (Istanbul University)
11. Bilingual Autobiographical Memory and Emotion: Theory and Methods – Robert Schrauf (Penn State University) and Ramon Durazo-Arvizu (Loyola University)
Afterword
About the author
Aneta Pavlenko is Research Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Oslo. Her research examines the relationship between multilingualism, cognition, and emotions. She has testified in court as an expert in forensic linguistics, lectured widely in North America, Europe and Asia, and authored more than a hundred articles and ten books, the most recent of which is The bilingual mind and what it tells us about language and thought (Cambridge University Press, 2014). She is former President of the American Association for Applied Linguistics and winner of the 2006 BAAL Book of the Year award and the 2009 TESOL Award for Distinguished Research.
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