Emotions in the cross-fire: Structuralist vs. post-structuralist stances in bilingualism research
- 1 July 2008
- journal article
- peer commentaries
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
- Vol. 11 (2) , 177-179
Abstract
What Aneta Pavlenko discusses in this fascinating article is so widely researched, so cogently conceptualized and so richly reflected upon, that one feels like a spoilsport to bring up a debate which the author herself claims to have avoided, namely the “universalist/relativist debate about basic emotions”. If I do so in this Commentary, it is not to invalidate the large body of work in cross-cultural psychology and cross-cultural semantics that Pavlenko refers to, nor to put into question the wealth of data she and Jean-Marc Dewaele have collected through their international webquestionnaire, but to bring to the fore the dilemma in which any bilingual researcher of bilingualism finds herself.Keywords
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