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The bilingual emotion lexicon and emotion in vivo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2008

ROBERT SCHRAUF
ROBERT SCHRAUF*
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Department of Applied Linguistics, 305 Sparks Building, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, [email protected]
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The keynote article by Aneta Pavlenko provides a compelling framework for the mental representation of emotion concepts in the two languages of the bilingual (novice or expert), and this may very well be its most telling contribution to the literature. However, I would like to concentrate my remarks on the author's development of the notion of emotionality in the latter third of the paper. I do this, first, because it seems to me that the majority of our work on the bilingual emotion lexicon derives from studies that have been done in the absence of actual emotional experience, and, second, because I believe that the author's development of the concept of emotionality sets the agenda for the next stage of research in this field.

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , July 2008 , pp. 185 - 187
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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