The embodiment of emotion-label words and emotion-laden words : Evidence from late Chinese–English bilinguals
Tang, D., Fu, Y., Wang, H., Liu, B., Zang, A., & Kärkkäinen, T. (2023). The embodiment of emotion-label words and emotion-laden words : Evidence from late Chinese–English bilinguals. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, Article 1143064. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1143064
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TekniikkaHuman and Machine based Intelligence in LearningKoulutusteknologia ja kognitiotiedeEngineeringHuman and Machine based Intelligence in LearningLearning and Cognitive SciencesCopyright
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Although increasing studies have confirmed the distinction between emotion-label words (words directly label emotional states) and emotion-laden words (words evoke emotions through connotations), the existing evidence is inconclusive, and their embodiment is unknown. In the current study, the emotional categorization task was adopted to investigate whether these two types of emotion words are embodied by directly comparing how they are processed in individuals’ native language (L1) and the second language (L2) among late Chinese-English bilinguals. The results revealed that apart from L2 negative emotion-laden words, both types of emotion words in L1 and L2 produced significant emotion effects, with faster response times and/or higher accuracy rates. In addition, processing facilitation for emotion-label words over emotion-laden words was observed irrespective of language operation; a significant three-way interaction between the language, valence and emotion word type was noted. Taken together, this study suggested that the embodiment of emotion words is modulated by the emotion word type, and L2 negative emotion-laden words tend to be affectively disembodied. The disassociation between emotion-label and emotion-laden words is confirmed in both L1 and L2 and therefore, future emotion word research should take the emotion word type into account.
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This work was supported by the scholarship from China Scholarship Council (No. 201906060171).License
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