Bilingual Minds Emotional Experience, Expression, and Representation

by Pavlenko, Aneta

• ISBN13: 9781853598739
• ISBN10: 1853598739
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-09
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Summary

"The goal of this volume is to highlight an affective dimension of the bi-/multilingual experience and to place emotion on a par with cognition in investigations of bilingual minds. Opening up a new field, the contributors ask several novel and provocative questions. To answer these and related questions, the contributors employ both quantitative and qualitative approaches and draw on advances in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, psychology, neurolinguistics, and literary criticism. This book will be of great interest not only to scholars in the fields of bilingualism and second language acquisition, but also to all who live their lives through the means of more than one language."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Dr. Aneta Pavlenko is an Associate Professor at the College of Education, Temple University, Philadelphia, US. She has lectured widely in Europe, North America, and Japan, and published numerous scientific articles and book chapters on sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics of bilingualism and second language acquisition. She is an author of Emotions and Multilingualism (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and a co-editor of three volumes, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, and Gender (Mouton de Gruyter, 2001), Negotiation of Identities in Multilingual Contexts (Multilingual Matters, 2004), and Gender and English Language Learners (TESOL, 2004).

Table of Contents

The Contributors	vii
Preface	xii
Bilingual Selves	1	(33)
Aneta Pavlenko
Language and Emotional Experience: The Voice of Translingual Memoir	34	(25)
Mary Besemeres
A Passion for English: Desire and the Language Market	59	(25)
Ingrid Piller
Kimie Takahashi
Feeling in Two Languages: A Comparative Analysis of a Bilingual's Affective Displays in French and Portuguese	84	(34)
Michele Koven
Expressing Anger in Multiple Languages	118	(34)
Jean-Marc Dewaele
Joking Across Languages: Perspectives on Humor, Emotion, and Bilingualism	152	(31)
Jyotsna Vaid
Translating Guilt: An Endeavor of Shame in the Mediterranean?	183	(26)
Alexia Panayiotou
Envy and Jealousy in Russian and English: Labeling and Conceptualization of Emotions by Monolinguals and Bilinguals	209	(23)
Olga Stepanova Sachs
John D. Coley
Cognitive Approaches to the Study of Emotion-Laden and Emotion Words in Monolingual and Bilingual Memory	232	(25)
Jeanette Altarriba
When is a First Language More Emotional? Psychophysiological Evidence from Bilingual Speakers	257	(27)
Catherine L. Harris
Jean Berko Gleason
Ayse Aycicegi
Bilingual Autobiographical Memory and Emotion: Theory and Methods	284	(28)
Robert W. Schrauf
Ramon Durazo-Arvizu
Afterword	312	(5)
Aneta Pavlenko
Index	317