J. Dewaele

Emotions in Multiple Languages (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230289505
• Artikelnr.: 45963463

Autorenporträt

Jean-Marc Dewaele is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. He has published widely on individual differences in psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic, pragmatic, psychological and emotional aspects of Second Language Acquisition and Multilingualism. He is president of the European Second Language Association (2007-2011) and Convenor of the AILA Research Network Multilingualism: Acquisition and Use.

Inhaltsangabe

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