Emotionality differences between a native and foreign language: theoretical implications

Frontiers in Psychology

Catherine L. Caldwell-Harris¹ 

关键词: bilingualism;    emotion;    context dependence;    embodiment;    language acquisition;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01055

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

The topic editors, Cornelia Herbert and colleagues, have noted that language has historically been assumed to be independent from emotions. The historical backdrop to this is the long reign of faculty psychology, which viewed the human mind as composed of discrete abilities (see discussion in Barrett, 2013). The mental modularity popularized by Chomsky (1965) and Fodor (1983) continued this view following the cognitive revolution of mid-century. Emotion had no role in information processing psychology, leading to its neglect in the cognitive sciences (Cromwell and Panksepp, 2011). Indeed, the classic emotion-cognition divide has been criticized in the past decades by theorists who are otherwise not natural allies (e.g., Damasio, 1994; Cromwell and Panksepp, 2011; Lindquist, 2013). An alternative to faculty psychology is psychological construction (Lindquist, 2013). On this view, mental abilities and mental states like emotions are constructed from the dynamic interaction of physiological states, situation-specific information, and conceptual knowledge.

【 授权许可】

CC BY