When is a First Language More Emotional? Psychophysiological Evidence from Bilingual Speakers

摘要: This chapter will review recent studies measuring physiological aspects of bilinguals’ emotional response to stimuli presented in speakers’ first and second language. We also introduce a new theory, ‘the contexts learning theory’, developed account for findings from existing bilingualism emotion. then evaluate the data consistent with this predictions it makes, overall prospects integrating psychophysiological research cross-linguistic cross-cultural research. The connections between emotion cognition have been increasingly studied over past decade (e.g. Damasio, 1994, 1999; LeDoux, 1996, 2002; Panksepp, 1998). Less attention has paid correlates One arena which concomitants language are keenly felt is bilingual sense that there greater arousal associated their compared Intuitions like these documented writings authors (Pavlenko, 1998), testimonials patients undergoing psychotherapy (Altarriba & Santiago-Rivera, 1994; SantiagoRivera Altarriba, Schrauf, 2000), laboratory (Anooshian Hertel, Aycicegi Harris, 2004; Bond Lai, 1986; Marian Neisser, 2000; Schrauf Rubin, However, investigation personal experiences, such as feels more emotional, traditionally assumed lie outside scope scientific cognitive sciences avoided studying subjective experience several reasons: (1) origins revolution