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Direct linkSchrauf, Robert W.; Sanchez, Julia – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2004
The "working emotion vocabulary" typically shows a preponderance of words for negative emotions (50%) over positive (30%) and neutral (20%) emotions. The theory of affect-as-information suggests that negative emotions signal problems or threat in the environment and are accompanied by detailed and systematic cognitive processing, while…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Monolingualism, Foreign Countries, Contrastive Linguistics
