Reviews for Emotions and Multilingualism

The average rating for Emotions and Multilingualism based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-06-15 00:00:00 Sung Lam Read for uni, but this was a lovely overview of the way that our multiple languages interact with identity and lived experiences. It talks about a lot of qualitative studies, not much from the "hard" sciences.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-11-17 00:00:00 Andrew McColgan I found this book about bilingualism when I wrote mine on same subject. "Emotions and multilingualism" is unique in his genre, an overview on how different languages may actually get different responses from the same subject. In this book Pavlenko does not limit the study to emotions but necessarily includes affections and behaviors as well. She investigates for example how a certain language, more than another can, in a multilingual subject, trigger feelings and memories, what language a patient may prefer or reject in psycho therapy, what's the reason and meaning of code switching and much more. This book is particularly interesting to all those who speak more than one language or have family or friends who do so. Reading it, you may finally understand why for example you basically curse in your first language but find it much easier to say "I love you" in your second language. Although it is a book written for academic purposes, it is highly readable but it is obviously not trivial literature: you have to be well motivated to get through the whole book.