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related article on L1/L2 and social norms

Posted by paradowski on 22 May 2014 at 10:42 GMT

Interesting. This corroborates earlier research on the influence of the mother tongue vs. foreign language on social norms:

Gawinkowska, M., Paradowski, M.B., Bilewicz, M. (2013) Second language as an exemptor from sociocultural norms. Emotion-Related Language Choice revisited. PLoS ONE 8(12): e81225. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0081225

http://www.plosone.org/ar...

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