Somatic and Social : Chinese Americans Talk About Emotion  

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Tsai, Jeanne L. ; Simeonova, Diana I. ; Watanabe, Jamie T.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pspc) vol. 30 no. 9 (Sep. 2004), page 1226-1238.
Topik: somatic pathology; culture; verbal expression; emotion; language; Chinese; LIWC
Fulltext: 1226.pdf (166.53KB)

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Empirical findings suggest that Chinese and Americans differ in the ways that they describe emotional experience, with Chinese using more somatic and social words than Americans. No one, however, has investigated whether this variation is related to differences between Chinese and American conceptions of emotion or to linguistic differences between the English and Chinese languages. Therefore, in two studies, the authors compared the word use of individuals who varied in their orientation to Chinese and American cultures (European Americans [EA], more acculturated Chinese Americans [CA], and less acculturated CA) when they were speaking English during emotional events. Across both studies, less acculturated CA used more somatic (e. g., dizzy) and more social (e. g., friend) words than EA. These findings suggest that even when controlling for language spoken, cultural conceptions of emotion may shape how people talk about emotion.

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