IQR Journal of Literature and Linguistics
Volume 1, Issue 1, Sept 2025
Bilingual and Emotional Language Processing: A Cross-Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Study
Syed Nadeem, Sajid Nehal, Raju Sriva
Abstract
Bilingualism is closely associated with the neurological, cognitive, and socio-cultural factors. This study investigates how people with bilingual capabilities, skills, and expertise process, perceive, understand, express, or display emotions across their native and learned languages, first and second languages. This paper draws on psycholinguistic and cross-linguistic perspectives. It provides an in-depth view of the immediacy and emotional intensity that form a much stronger and powerful native language. The study identifies and analyzes factors such as affective bonding, socialization, deep cultural values and traditions that have an impact on the first language and the second language. The research clearly shows how emotional processing plays a key role in strengthening cognitive effort. It has also become evident that age of acquisition, proficiency, socio-cultural environments, shape emotional language processing.
Keywords
Emotional Language, Psycholinguistic Study, Cross Linguistic Study, Bilingual Language Processing
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