A Priming Study on the Processing Mechanism of Emotional Colexification in Chinese and L2 English from the Perspective of Typology
The emotional concepts of different languages in the world have different colexification structures,but few studies verified the reality of mental representations of emotional colexification networks.The current study utilized the affective priming paradigm to explore the representational patterns and cognitive features of Chinese and L2 English emotional colexification networks in Chinese-English bilinguals.The results show that:(1)valence influences the colexification processing of Chinese and L2 English.The response time of positive and negative words is significantly shorter than that of neutral words,and the accuracy is also higher.(2)The emotional priming effect only appears in the Chinese colexification processing.(3)There are representational networks in the processing of Chinese and L2 English emotional colexification word pairs,which partly accord with the Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European colexification networks constructed by Jackson et al.(2019)and support the constructionist theory of emotion.Our findings can provide certain enlightenment for further research on emotional colexification.
linguistic typologyemotioncolexificationprocessing mechanismpriming study
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