Determine emotion-label words: Quantifying emotional prototypicality of 1,122 second-language English words
Abstract A comprehensive database of emotional prototypicality (EmoPro) scores for 1,122 words in second-language (L2) English was provided and aided in selecting L2 English emotion-label words. EmoPro refers to the degree to which a word clearly represents or conveys an emotion. The results showed that EmoPro was influenced by various factors, including valence, arousal, socialness, age of acquisition (AoA) and concreteness. EmoPro in the L2 context demonstrated its ability to predict naming and lexical decision performance. The similarities observed between EmoPro in the L2 and in the first language (L1) exhibited comparable correlations with other emotional and semantic factors and shared associations with predictors in the L1. This study also serves as a valuable tool for research on L2 emotion words, especially in the selection of prototypical emotion-label words in L2 English.
Authors
- Juan Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2361-5369)
- Chenggang Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3837-3841)
- Yaxuan Meng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7323-9827)
Institutions
- Shanghai International Studies University (CN)
- Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (CN)
- University of Macau (MO)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Bilingualism Language and Cognition
- Published
- 2025-02-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s1366728925000136
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.24
Funders
- Jilin Office of Philosophy and Social Science