Emotions in multiple languages

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Emotions in multiple languages

Jean-Marc Dewaele

Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-256) and indexes

"First published in hardback in 2010. This paperback edition first published in 2013"--T.p. verso

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Alarge-scale investigation on how multilinguals feel about their languages and use them to communicate emotion. Combining quantitative and qualitative approaches, the author looks at the factors that affect multilinguals' self-perceived competence, attitudes, communicative anxiety, language choice and code-switching.

Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Tables Preface and Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Perspectives on Emotion Epistemological and Methodological Perspectives Method, Research Question and Hypotheses The Independent Variables Results: Self-perceived Competence in Oral and Written Language Results: Communicating Feelings (in general) Results: Communicating Anger and Swearing Results: Attitudes towards Languages and Perception of Emotionality of Swearwords Results: Foreign Language Anxiety Results: Code-switching and Emotion Concluding Remarks References Appendix Index

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