Bilingual Minds

Dr. Aneta Pavlenko is an Associate Professor at the College of Education, Temple University, Philadelphia, US. She has lectured widely in Europe, North America, and Japan, and published numerous scientific articles and book chapters on sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics of bilingualism and second language acquisition. She is an author of Emotions and Multilingualism (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and a co-editor of three volumes, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, and Gender (Mouton de Gruyter, 2001), Negotiation of Identities in Multilingual Contexts (Multilingual Matters, 2004), and Gender and English Language Learners (TESOL, 2004).

• Preface1. Bilingual Selves - Aneta Pavlenko2. Language and Emotional Experience - Mary Besemeres (Australian Research Institute)3. A Passion for English: Desire and the Language Market - Ingrid Piller (Basel University) and Kimie Takahashi (The University of Sydney)4. Feeling in Two Languages - Michèle Koven (University of Illinois)5. Expressing Anger in Multiple Languages - Jean-Marc Dewaele (University of London)6. Joking Across Languages - Jyotsna Vaid (Texas A&M University)7. Translating 'Guilt' - Alexia Panayiotou (University of Cyprus)8. Envy and Jealousy in Russian and English - Olga Stepanova Sachs and John Coley (Northeastern University)9. Cognitive Approaches to the Study of Emotion-laden and Emotion Words in Monolingual and Bilingual Memory - Jeanette Altarriba (University at Albany)10. When is a First Language More Emotional? - Catherine Harris (Boston University), Jean Berko Gleason (Boston University) and Ayse Aycicegi (Istanbul University)11. Bilingual Autobiographical Memory and Emotion: Theory and Methods - Robert Schrauf (Penn State University) and Ramon Durazo-Arvizu (Loyola University)Afterword

This is a very cohesive piece of work with various chapters complementing each other. This is a fascinating book that I would recommend highly to anyone interested in bilingualism.