Taboo words and reprimands in a second language

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1、AppliedPsycholinguistics24(2003),561579PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmericaDOI:10.1017.S0142716403000286TaboowordsandreprimandselicitgreaterautonomicreactivityinafirstlanguagethaninasecondlanguageCATHERINEL.HARRISBostonUniversityAYS¸EAYC¸IC¸EG˘IIstanbulUniv

2、ersityJEANBERKOGLEASONBostonUniversityADDRESSFORCORRESPONDENCECatherineL.Harris,PsychologyDepartment,BostonUniversity,64CummingtonSt.,Boston,MA02215.E-mail:charris@bu.eduABSTRACTSecondlanguagespeakerscommonlyacknowledgethattabootermscanbeutteredwithgreat

3、ereaseintheirsecondlanguage(L2)thanintheirfirstlanguage(L1).Toinvestigatethisphenomenonpsychophysiologically,32TurkishEnglishbilingualsratedavarietyofstimuliforpleasantnessinTurkish(L1)andEnglish(L2)whileskinconductancewasmonitoredviafingertipelectrodes.

4、Par-ticipantsdemonstratedgreaterautonomicarousaltotaboowordsandchildhoodreprimands(Shameonyou!)intheirL1comparedtotheirL2.ThisfindingprovidesquantifiablesupportforthesubjectiveexperiencesofL2speakers.Bilingualspeakershavereportedthatitiseasiertosaysomeki

5、ndsofemotion-allychargedwordsorexpressionsinalanguagethatisnottheirnativelanguage.Inthisstudy,weexploredthepossibilitythatthisdifferencebetweenafirstlanguage(L1)andasecondlanguage(L2)haspsychophysiologicalcomponents.Inparticular,wehypothesizedthattaboowo

6、rdsinanativelanguagewouldelicitstrongerskinconductanceresponsesthansimilartaboowordslearnedlaterinlifeinanL2.WealsohypothesizedthatemotionalexpressionslearnedearlyinlifeinanL1(suchasthekindsofreprimandsyoungchildrenhear)wouldevokegreaterphysiologicalresp

7、onses,whethertheindividualsexperiencingthesere-sponseswerefullyawareofthemornot.Anumberofauthorshaveremarkedthattaboowordsappeartogeneratelessanxietywhenspokeninaforeignlanguage(Ferenczi,1916;Greenson,1950;Javier,1989).Bilingualspeakersalsofeelfreertodis

8、cussembarrassingtopics2003CambridgeUniversityPress0142-7164/03$12.00AppliedPsycholinguistics24:4562Harrisetal.:AutonomicreactivityinL1andL2intheirL2(Bond&Lai,1986;Sechrest,Flores,&Arellano,1968).AnooshianandHertel(1994)no