A large-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. INDICE: - 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 andWritten 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 -
- ISBN: 978-1-4039-4316-3
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 03/09/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés