Different languages, different emotions? Perspectives from autobiographical literature

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

Volumn 25, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 140-158

  Besemeres, Mary ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Autobiography; Bilingualism; Cross cultural; Emotions

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248712897     PISSN: 01434632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01434630408666526     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Attinasi, J. and Friedrich, P. (1995) Dialogic breakthrough: Catalysis and synthesis in life-changing dialogue. In B. Mannheim and D. Tedlock (eds) The Dialogic Emergence of Culture (pp. 33-53). Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
2. Baran-czak, S. (1989) The Weight of the Body: Selected Poems. (M.J. Krynski, R. Lourie, R.A. Maguire and the author, trans.) Evanston, IL: TriQuarterly Books.
3. Baran-czak, S. (1990) E.E.: The Extraterritorial. In Breathing Under Water and Other East European Essays (pp. 9-15). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
4. Besemeres, M. (2002) Translating One's Self: Language and Selfhood in Cross-Cultural Autobiography. Oxford: Peter Lang.
5. Bichniewicz, M. (transcribed). (n.d.) Listy rodzinne Marii i Tadeusza Smolenskich z lat 1944-46 (po powstaniu warszawskim) (Family letters of Maria and Tadeusz Smolenscy from 1944-1946, after the Warsaw Uprising). Unpublished correspondence.
6. Bruner, J. (1990) Acts of Meaning. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
7. Diamond, C. (1988) Losing Your Concepts. Ethics (January), 255-277.
8. Donald, M. (2001) A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
9. Doroszewski, W. (ed.) (1958-69) Sl ownik Je{ogonek}zyka Polskiego. 11 vols. Warsaw: PWN.
10. Haiman, J. (1989) Alienation in Grammar. Studies in Language 13, 129-170.
11. Hessler, P. (2001) River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze. London: John Murray.
12. Hoffman, E. (1989) Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language. London: Vintage.
13. Kellman, S. (2000) The Translingual Imagination. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
14. Kingston, M. (1976) The Woman Warrior: Memoir of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. New York: Vintage Books.
15. Kirman, P. (2000) Interview with Nino Ricci. Suite101.com. At http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/canadian_literature/31651.
16. Mori, K. (1997) Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures. New York: Henry Holt.
17. Ng, L. (1994) Silver Sister. Port Melbourne, Victoria: Mandarin Australia.
18. Novakovich, J. and Shaphard, R. (eds) (2000) Stories in the Stepmother Tongue. Buffalo, New York: White Pine Press.
19. Parks, T. (1996) An Italian Education. London: Vintage.
20. Pavlenko, A. (2001) 'In the world of the tradition, I was unimagined': Negotiation of identities in cross-cultural autobiographies. The International Journal of Bilingualism 5 (3), 317-344.
21. Ricci, N. (1990) The Book of Saints. New York: Picador USA.
22. Ricci, N. (1993) In a Glass House. New York: Picador USA.
23. Ricci, N. (1997) Where She Has Gone. New York: Picador USA.
24. Stearns, P. (1994) American Cool: Constructing a Twentieth-Century Emotional Style. New York: New York University Press.
25. Wierzbicka, A. (1999) Emotions Across Languages and Cultures: Diversity and Universals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
26. Xinran (2002) The Good Women of China. London: Vintage.
27. Ye, V.Z. (2003) 'La Double Vie de Veronica: reflections on my life as a Chinese migrant in Australia.' Mots Pluriels No. 23. At http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/motspluriels/MP2303vzy.html.