Switching Codes, Switching Code: Bilinguals' Emotional Responses in English and Greek

The emotional weight of I love you in multilinguals’ languages

“…L2 learners faced with emotion concepts that have no equivalent in their L1 will eventually acquire the concept through secondary affective socialization, slowly developing the prototypical script for that emotion (Pavlenko, 2008). Examples of such language-and culturespecific concepts are the Russian ''perezhivat''' (to experience something keenly/to worry/to suffer things through) (Pavlenko, 2002a,b), Greek ''stenahoria'' (discomfort-sadnesssuffocation) and ''ypohreosi'' (deep sense of cultural and social obligation) (Panayiotou, 2004a(Panayiotou, ,b, 2006. Pavlenko (2008) argues that emotion concepts can co-exist in bicultural speakers.…”

Predicting Code-switching in Multilingual Communication for Immigrant Communities

“…Park et al (2014) studied how the use of emoticons differ across cultures in Twitter data. Panayiotou (2004) studied how bilinguals express emotions in faceto-face environments in different languages. We are the first to investigate the role of emoticons as a non-linguistic factor in predicting code-switching on social media.…”

Self-reported use and perception of the L1 and L2 among maximally proficient bi- and multilinguals: a quantitative and qualitative investigation

“…Similarly, Panayiotou (2004aPanayiotou ( , 2004b) investigated the differences in GreekEnglish and English-Greek bilinguals' reactions to hearing the same story read to them in both languages. Participants interpreted and related the same events differently, depending on the language context.…”