The language of anger in Chinese and English narratives

Ho, Judy Woon Yee

doi:10.1177/1367006908353235

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“…However, the materials included in ChiE in this paper are all generally regarded a high level of China English. Previous studies (e.g., Dewaele & Pavlenko, 2002;Woon, 2009;Dewaele & Qaddourah, 2016, etc. ) have suggested that language competence influences the emotional expressions of bilinguals.…”

Section: Prepositional Collocates Of Anger Adjectives In the English Varietiesmentioning

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A Corpus-Based Study on Construction of “Anger Adjectives + Prepositions” in World Englishes

Zhang¹,

Cao²

2021

ELLS

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Anger as one of the basic emotions has attracted much attention. In the construction of “Anger adjectives + prepositions”, the temporal duration of the Anger adjectives is closely related to their prepositional collocates. Differences in the use of the Anger adjectives and their prepositional collocates might be captured in the world English varieties. The corpora used in this study cover eight varieties of English. The five varieties of English used in Canada, Philippines, Singapore, India and Nigeria are from the International Corpus of English (ICE). The China English corpus (ChiE) consists of news texts crawled from six Chinese English media. American English is taken from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and British English is taken from British National Corpus (BNC). By investigating the use of the Anger adjectives and their prepositional collocates in the eight varieties of English, this paper finds that, on the continuums of the temporal duration of Anger adjectives, most varieties of English are closer to American English, whereas only Singapore English is close to British English. The distribution of Anger adjectives in the English varieties is largely in accordance with the Concentric Circles of world Englishes whereas the continuums of the temporal duration of emotions present a new insight into their relations.

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Section: Prepositional Collocates Of Anger Adjectives In the English Varietiesmentioning

confidence: 93%

A Corpus-Based Study on Construction of “Anger Adjectives + Prepositions” in World Englishes

Zhang¹,

Cao²

2021

ELLS

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“…AM recall involves two components: the knowledge related to the memory of the event and the activation of the emotional state experienced during the event (Mills & D'Mello, 2014). The prompts for the AMs were created in accordance with previous studies that also used a similar emotion elicitation method to examine the bilingual emotional vocabulary (e.g., Ho, 2009;Marian & Kaushanskaya, 2008). All the participants were asked to write AMs of anger and surprise based on the following prompt: "Write about a real personal experience in which you felt particularly angry/surprised in Spanish/German.…”

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The “emotional brain” of adolescent Spanish–German heritage speakers: is emotional intelligence a proxy for productive emotional vocabulary?

Vidal Noguera,

Mavrou

2024

Bilingualism

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Autobiographical memories (AMs) are partly influenced by people's ability to process and express their emotions. This study investigated the extent to which trait emotional intelligence (EI) contributed to the emotional vocabulary of 148 adolescents – 60 speakers of Spanish as a heritage language (HL) raised in Germany, 61 first-language (L1) German speakers and 27 L1 Spanish speakers – in their written AMs of anger and surprise. The results revealed that heritage speakers with high trait EI used more emotional words in their AMs. These bilinguals also used more positive, negative and high-arousal words in their HL and in their AMs of anger. Similar patterns were observed in the AMs produced in Spanish (HL and L1), but L1 Spanish speakers used more emotional words in their AMs of surprise. By contrast, L1 German speakers used more emotional words than bilinguals in their AMs in German, and AMs of anger in German included more emotional vocabulary than those addressing surprise events.

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“…Chinese lexicon usage is more complex for writing and emotional expression. As a tonal language, a Chinese word may be composed of single or multiple characters (Wierzbicka, 1999;Woon Yee Ho, 2009). Liu and Zhao (2013) imply that emotion expressed in Chinese is more ambiguous than in English since Chinese has more modesty and prudence in positive words.…”

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Managerial sentiment and corporate risk-taking: evidence from Chinese listed companies’ annual reports

Qin,

Cui,

Yan

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Purpose This paper aims to examine whether managerial sentiment, extracted from annual reports, is associated with corporate risk-taking in the context of Chinese companies. This study expands the vein of literature on overconfidence theory. Design/methodology/approach By leveraging textual analysis on Chinese listed companies’ annual reports, the authors construct firm-level managerial sentiment during 2007 and 2021 to examine how managerial sentiment influences corporate risk-taking after control for firm characteristics. Corporate risk-taking is denoted by corporate investment engagements: capital expenditures and net fixed asset investment. Findings Results show that incentives for corporate risk-taking are likely to increase with the positive managerial sentiment and decrease with the negative sentiment in companies’ annual reports. Positive managerial sentiment is associated with over-/under-investment and low/high investment efficiency. Further additional tests show that the managerial sentiment effect only holds during low economic uncertain years and samples of private-owned firms. Furthermore, the robust tests indicate that there is no endogenous issue between managerial sentiment and corporate risk-taking. Research limitations/implications Annual report textual-based managerial sentiment may not perfectly reflect managers’ lower frequency sentiment (e.g. weekly, monthly and quarterly sentiment). Future studies could attempt to capture managers’ on-time sentiment by using media sources and corporate disclosures. Practical implications To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this paper is the first research to provide insights into supervising managers’ corporate decisions by observing their textual information usage in corporate disclosure. Moreover, the approach of measuring managerial sentiment might be a solution to monitoring managerial class. Originality/value This paper contributes to the literature on accounting and finance studies, adding another piece of empirical evidence on content analysis by examining a unique language and institutional context (i.e. China). Besides, the paper notes that in line with the English version disclosure, based on Chinese semantic words, managerial sentiment in the Chinese-speaking world has magnitude on corporate decisions. The research provides insights into supervising managers’ corporate decisions by observing their textual information usage in corporate disclosure. Moreover, the approach to measuring managerial sentiment may be a practical solution to monitoring managerial class.

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The language of anger in Chinese and English narratives

Cited by 9 publications

References 22 publications

A Corpus-Based Study on Construction of “Anger Adjectives + Prepositions” in World Englishes

A Corpus-Based Study on Construction of “Anger Adjectives + Prepositions” in World Englishes

The “emotional brain” of adolescent Spanish–German heritage speakers: is emotional intelligence a proxy for productive emotional vocabulary?

Managerial sentiment and corporate risk-taking: evidence from Chinese listed companies’ annual reports

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