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Multi-linguilism shapes children's emotional
development
Friday August 03, 2012 05:49:19 PM,
IANS
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Washington: In
television classic "I Love Lucy", Ricky Ricardo switched into
rapid-fire Spanish whenever he was upset, despite the fact that
Lucy had no idea what her Cuban husband was saying.
This kind of code-switching, or switching back and forth between
different languages, happens all the time in multi-lingual
environments, and often in emotive situations.
Psychological scientists Stephen Chen and Qing Zhou of the
University of California, Berkeley, and Morgan Kennedy of Bard
College, have sought to demystify this linguistic phenomenon, the
journal Perspectives on Psychological Science reports.
Drawing on research from psychology and linguistics, the
researchers seek to understand better how using different
languages to discuss and express emotions in a multi-lingual
family might play an important role in children's emotional
development, according to a California statement.
"Over the past few years, there's been a steadily growing interest
in the languages multi-lingual individuals use to express
emotions," says Chen. "We were interested in the potential
clinical and developmental implications of emotion-related
language shifts, particularly within the context of the family."
Bilingual parents may use a specific language to express an
emotional concept because they feel that language provides a
better cultural context for expressing an emotion. For example, a
native Finnish speaker may fall back on English to tell her
children that she loves them because it is uncommon to explicitly
express emotions in Finnish.
Thus, the language that a parent chooses to express a particular
concept can help to provide cues that reveal his or her emotional
state. Language choice may also influence how children experience
emotion and such expressions can potentially elicit a greater
emotional response when spoken in the child's native language.
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