The present study aims to analyse and discuss several studies concerning the effect of bilingualism on the processing of emotion-label words and emotion-laden words. In recent years, psycholinguistic research has shown a growing interest in the relationship between language and emotion, highlighting how emotional words are not processed uniformly. In particular, it has emerged that not all emotional words activate cognitive and emotional processes in the same way, and that these differences may depend on word type, valence, and several factors related to linguistic experience. This perspective has led to a distinction between words that directly express an emotional state (emotion-label words) and words that evoke it indirectly (emotion-laden words), allowing for a more detailed analysis of emotional processing. The chapters examine different perspectives, ranging from neural to behavioural measures, relating the various studies to one another and presenting the main findings emerging from the literature.
Il presente elaborato si propone di analizzare e discutere alcuni studi relativi all’effetto del bilinguismo nell'elaborazione delle parole etichette di emozione e delle parole cariche emotivamente. Negli ultimi anni, la ricerca psicolinguistica ha mostrato un crescente interesse per il rapporto tra linguaggio ed emozione, evidenziando come le parole emotive non vengano elaborate in modo uniforme. In particolare, è emerso che non tutte attivano allo stesso modo i processi cognitivi ed emotivi e che tali differenze possono dipendere dal tipo di parola, dalla valenza e da diversi fattori legati all’esperienza linguistica. Questa prospettiva ha portato a distinguere tra parole che esprimono direttamente uno stato emotivo (emotion-label words) e parole che lo evocano in modo indiretto (emotion-laden words), rendendo possibile un’analisi più fine dell'elaborazione emotiva. I capitoli esaminano diverse prospettive, da misure neurali a comportamentali, mettendo in relazione i vari studi e presentando i principali risultati emersi in letteratura.
L’effetto della lingua nell’elaborazione delle parole etichette di emozione e delle parole cariche emotivamente
D'AGOSTINO CASTELETI, MAITHE
2025/2026
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The present study aims to analyse and discuss several studies concerning the effect of bilingualism on the processing of emotion-label words and emotion-laden words. In recent years, psycholinguistic research has shown a growing interest in the relationship between language and emotion, highlighting how emotional words are not processed uniformly. In particular, it has emerged that not all emotional words activate cognitive and emotional processes in the same way, and that these differences may depend on word type, valence, and several factors related to linguistic experience. This perspective has led to a distinction between words that directly express an emotional state (emotion-label words) and words that evoke it indirectly (emotion-laden words), allowing for a more detailed analysis of emotional processing. The chapters examine different perspectives, ranging from neural to behavioural measures, relating the various studies to one another and presenting the main findings emerging from the literature.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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