Linguistics and Multilingual Studies Research Reading Group
| Topic |
Language and Emotions |
| Date |
Commencing 7th March 2011 |
| Time |
2pm-4pm |
| Venue |
HSS Meeting Room 3 (Level 3) |
An informal reading group on Language and Emotion will be held regularly, starting from March 7th by reading two interesting journal papers. One of them is a psychology paper (Scherer 2005), addressing the issue of what is emotion; the other one is a linguistics paper (Pavlenko 2008), addressing the issue of bilingual emotion lexicon.
The PDF version of the two papers can be downloaded from our library E-journals:
- Scherer, R. Klaus. 2005. What are emotions? And how can they be measured? Social Science Information 44.4: 695-729.
- Pavlenko, Aneta. 2008. Emotion and emotion-laden words in the bilingual lexicon. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 11.2: 147-164.
The focus of the reading group will be mainly on the defining features of emotions, and how emotion words are represented in our mental lexicon.
Supplementary readings:
- Pavlenko, Aneta. 2008. Structural and conceptual equivalence in acquisition and use of emotion words in a second language. Mental Lexicon, 3, 1, 91-120.
- Wranik, Tanja and Klaus R. Scherer. 2010. Why do I get angry? A componential appraisal approach. In M. Potegal et al. (eds) International Handbook of Anger. 243-266.
*The reading group will be arranged on Mondays, twice a month. If you have some interesting papers to share with the group members, please mention them and we can put them in our reading list, and discuss them in our reading group.
Enquiry: liuhongyong (liuhongyong@ntu.edu.sg)
