ICPS
2023 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2023
Emotions and Language Choice: Codeswitching Is Motivated By Emotional Processes
- Reem Dallasheh Khatib
University of Haifa - Zohar Eviatar
University of Haifa - Hamutal Kreiner
Department of Behavioral Sciences, Ruppin Academic Center
Abstract
We explored how emotions affect the amount and type of language used by adult multilingual Arabic and Hebrew (ASP\HSP) native speakers. Results: a higher overall codeswitching rate among fluent multilinguals (ASP) compared to HSP. for ASP's Codeswitching was made specifically for MSA. Emotional processes are suggested to affect language choice.
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