Emotion, cognition and bilingualism: A commentary on Hinojosa, Moreno and Ferré (2019)

ABSTRACT

The article comments on an infant research territory charted by Hinojosa et al. (2019) in Affective neurolinguistics: Towards a framework for reconciling language and emotion. Acknowledging the sprouting of affective neurolinguistics in the semantic and syntactic unification process, lexico-semantic and morphosyntactic and visual word and sentence processing domain, we expand on their thought to flesh out the aspect of bilingualism. Speakers of two or more languages are constantly fighting in receiving emotional input. One language may oust the other language to elicit the emotions, or bilinguals overthrow monolingual peers in perceiving emotion stimuli. This article claims that to amplify the significance of emotion-language intersection in the brain entirely, emotions should be studied in mono- and bilingual contexts.

KEYWORDS:

• Emotion
• language
• cognition
• bilingualism

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