Bilingual minds [[electronic resource] ] : emotional experience, expression, and representation / / edited by Aneta Pavlenko

• Pubblicazione: Clevedon, : Multilingual Matters, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (340 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.446019
• Soggetto topico: Bilingualism - Psychological aspects; Emotions
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: PavlenkoAneta <1963->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- The Contributors -- Preface: Multilingualism and Emotions as a New Area of Research -- 1. Bilingual Selves -- 2. Language and Emotional Experience: The Voice of Translingual Memoir -- 3. A Passion for English: Desire and the Language Market -- 4. Feeling in Two Languages: A Comparative Analysis of a Bilingual’s Affective Displays in French and Portuguese -- 5. Expressing Anger in Multiple Languages -- 6. Joking Across Languages: Perspectives on Humor, Emotion, and Bilingualism -- 7. Translating Guilt: An Endeavor of Shame in the Mediterranean? -- 8. Envy and Jealousy in Russian and English: Labeling and Conceptualization of Emotions by Monolinguals and Bilinguals -- 9. Cognitive Approaches to the Study of Emotion-Laden and Emotion Words in Monolingual and Bilingual Memory -- 10. When is a First Language More Emotional? Psychophysiological Evidence from Bilingual Speakers -- 11. Bilingual Autobiographical Memory and Emotion: Theory and Methods -- Afterword -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Bilingual minds
• ISBN: 1-84769-981-2; 1-280-50177-4; 9786610501779; 1-85359-874-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450494003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Bilingual education and bilingualism ; ; 56.