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Emotions in the cross-fire: Structuralist vs. post-structuralist stances in bilingualism research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2008

CLAIRE KRAMSCH
CLAIRE KRAMSCH*
Affiliation:
German Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, [email protected]
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What Aneta Pavlenko discusses in this fascinating article is so widely researched, so cogently conceptualized and so richly reflected upon, that one feels like a spoilsport to bring up a debate which the author herself claims to have avoided, namely the “universalist/relativist debate about basic emotions”. If I do so in this Commentary, it is not to invalidate the large body of work in cross-cultural psychology and cross-cultural semantics that Pavlenko refers to, nor to put into question the wealth of data she and Jean-Marc Dewaele have collected through their international webquestionnaire, but to bring to the fore the dilemma in which any bilingual researcher of bilingualism finds herself.

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , July 2008 , pp. 177 - 179
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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