Aneta Pavlenko Knihy

Exploring the intricate relationship between language and emotions, this groundbreaking work delves into how bilinguals perceive and express feelings in their different languages. Aneta Pavlenko challenges traditional monolingual perspectives in linguistics and psychology, addressing questions about emotional experiences, language learning, and the preferences of writers for their second language. This thought-provoking analysis is aimed at scholars and researchers across various disciplines, offering new insights into the emotional landscape of multilingualism.

If languages influence the way we think, do bilinguals think differently in their respective languages? And if languages do not affect thought, why do bilinguals often perceive such influence? For many years these questions remained unanswered because the research on language and thought had focused solely on the monolingual mind. Bilinguals were either excluded from this research as 'unusual' or 'messy' subjects, or treated as representative speakers of their first languages. Only recently did bi- and multilinguals become research participants in their own right. Pavlenko considers the socio-political circumstances that led to the monolingual status quo and shows how the invisibility of bilingual participants compromised the validity and reliability of findings in the study of language and cognition. She then shifts attention to the bilingual turn in the field and examines its contributions to the understanding of the human mind"