Bilingual Minds

Emotional Experience, Expression, and Representation

Edited by Dr. Aneta Pavlenko

Publication date:

09 March 2006

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781853598739

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.

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

This is a very cohesive piece of work with various chapters complementing each other. This is a fascinating book that I would recommend highly to anyone interested in bilingualism.