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| Title: | Dynamic emotion concepts of L2 learners and L2 users: A Second Language Acquisition perspective |
| Author: | Jean-Marc Adrien Dewaele |
| Email: | click here to access email |
| Institution: | Birkbeck College, University of London |
| Linguistic Field: | Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics; Semantics |
| Abstract: | Pavlenko's keynote paper calls for a rethinking of models of the mental lexicon in the light of recent research into emotion and bilingualism. The author makes a convincing case for the inclusion of affective aspects in the study of the mental lexicon. Indeed, the knowledge of the degree of emotionality of a word and of its affective valence is just as important as the knowledge of that word's grammatical class, or its gender. From a pragmatic point of view, one could argue that an L2 user's inaccurate or incomplete understanding of the emotionality and valence of an emotion word, or an emotion-laden word, in the L2 might lead to unwanted illocutionary effects, which might be far more embarrassing than phonological, morphological or syntactical errors. |
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This article appears in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Vol. 11, Issue 2, which you can read on Cambridge's site or on LINGUIST . |
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