Lexical and contextual emotional valence in foreign language vocabulary retention An experimental study and the Deep Epistemic Emotion Hypothesis

Kanazawa, Yu

Mental Lexicon, 2024, 18(3), 339-365

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タイトル
Lexical and contextual emotional valence in foreign language vocabulary retention An experimental study and the Deep Epistemic Emotion Hypothesis
著者
NRID
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ORCID
0000-0003-1398-5913 0000-0003-1398-5913
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著者名
Kanazawa, Yu
キーワード等
congruency
contextual word retention
emotion
emotional context
epistemic emotions
foreign language
recall memory
valence
vocabulary
内容
Kanazawa Y. Lexical and contextual emotional valence in foreign language vocabulary retention An experimental study and the Deep Epistemic Emotion Hypothesis. Mental Lexicon 18 339, (2024); https://doi.org/10.1075/ml.23001.kan.
抄録
Studies suggest that not only words per se but also surrounding contexts play significant roles in foreign language vocabulary retention. This study investigated how different conditions of lexical and contextual emotional valence differently affect foreign language vocabulary retention. The target words were either positive (LexVal+), neutral (LexVal=), or negative (LexVal-) in meaning. Each visually enhanced target word was embedded in a sentence either positive (CtxVal+), neutral (CtxVal=), or negative (CtxVal-) in meaning. Sentences with different combinations of lexical valence and contextual valence were presented in the Study Session, which were later incidentally recalled in the Test Session. It was revealed that positive and negative words were remembered more often than neutral words and that negative contexts resulted in better retention of the embedded words than neutral contexts. These findings are in accordance with the predictions of the emotionally enhanced memory, the Emotion-Involved Processing Hypothesis, and the role of affect in the Modular Cognition Framework. Further, even if the target item is not emotional, embedding it in emotional context may result in better retention, a finding with potential pedagogical implications. Interestingly, words embedded in emotionally congruent contexts were not learned better than those in incongruent contexts, a finding contrary to expectation. The result may be explainable via the Deep Epistemic Emotion Hypothesis, calling for more empirical study.
出版者
John Benjamins Publishing Company
収録物名
Mental Lexicon
巻(号)
18(3)
ページ
339-365
刊行年月
2024-09-03
言語
英語
ハンドルURL
https://hdl.handle.net/11094/98226
PISSN
18711340
eISSN
18711375
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DOI (出版社版)
https://doi.org/10.1075/ml.23001.kan
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open access
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© John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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Accepted Manuscript
カテゴリ
学術雑誌論文 Journal Article