Influences of Culture on Affiliation and Emotion in Bilingual Narratives

Date of Award

2005

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Social Sciences

First Advisor

Raghavan, Chemba

Keywords

Emotion Words, Frog, Where are You?, Bilingual Language Use, Children's Language Usage

Area of Concentration

Psychology

Abstract

Much research has been done with English speaking children and emotion word usage in speech. Researchers have found that boys and girls differ in their use of emotion in narratives and speech. Research shows girls talking more about emotion in general and more about sadness in particular and boys talking about anger more. Girls talk more about people in their narratives. Little work has been done in this realm concerning children who speak Spanish as a first language and who are immersed in Latino culture, where gender stereotypes tend to be more rigid. The current project examines children who are bilingual in both Spanish and English and children who are fluent in English only and their use of emotion in telling the story 'Frog, Where are you?' The narratives were examined for references to others and themes of interconnectedness. Girls used more affiliation than boys did, regardless of language type and girls and boys who were monolingual English speakers used the most emotion words.

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