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Do you see / hear / understand how he feels? Multimodal perception of a Chinese speaker’s emotional state across languages and cultures
Get PDFEmotion perception is crucial for interpersonal communication, as the interpretation of the emotional state of one’s interlocutor affects the interpretation of the content of their utterances. This process, which relies on the interpretation of both verbal and nonverbal cues, might be more challenging when communicating in a foreign language, with someone from another culture, or when not all communication channels are available. This study investigates whether perceptions of the Chinese speaker’s emotional state differ between (a) first language (L1) users, additional language (LX) users, and non-users (L0) of Mandarin, with (b)different proficiency levels and (c)different cultural backgrounds, and (d)depending on the modality of communication. This study mainly relies on quantitative data collected via an online survey embedded with 12 multimodal emotion stimuli. For each stimulus, the 1599 participants (651 L1, 406 LX and 542 L0 Mandarin speakers) had to rate how pleasant and how activated the speaker was feeling (core affect rating) and then had to choose a label that describes his feeling (emotion categorisation). Moreover, eight Chinese informants took part in a focus-group interview to discuss about the Chinese culture and intranational cultural differences. Results revealed (slight) differences in L1, LX, and L0 users’ core affect ratings, but no effect of proficiency. Different cultural groups across the globe rated the speakers’ core affect similarly, but (slight) intranational cultural differences appeared. Communication modality also explained variation in core affect ratings, especially for pleasantness. Moreover, the data suggest substantial cross-linguistic, cross-cultural and cross-modal variation in emotion categorisation. This research tempers the assumptions that core affect and that specific emotions are universal and it highlights the role of both language and culture –insofar as they are distinct from each other –in emotion perception
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No full textInvestigating emotion perception via the two-dimensional affect and feeling space: an example of a cross-cultural study among Chinese and Non-Chinese participants
Get PDFThe categorical approach to cross-cultural emotion perception research has mainly relied on constrained experimental tasks, which have arguably biased previous findings and attenuated cross-cultural differences. On the other hand, in the constructionist approach, conclusions on the universal nature of valence and arousal have mainly been indirectly drawn based on participants' word-matching or free-sorting behaviors, but studies based on participants' continuous valence and arousal ratings are very scarce. When it comes to self-reports of specific emotion perception, constructionists tend to rely on free labeling, which has its own limitations. In an attempt to move beyond the limitations of previous methods, a new instrument called the Two-Dimensional Affect and Feeling Space (2DAFS) has been developed. The 2DAFS is a useful, innovative, and user-friendly instrument that can easily be integrated in online surveys and allows for the collection of both continuous valence and arousal ratings and categorical emotion perception data in a quick and flexible way. In order to illustrate the usefulness of this tool, a cross-cultural emotion perception study based on the 2DAFS is reported. The results indicate the cross-cultural variation in valence and arousal perception, suggesting that the minimal universality hypothesis might need to be more nuanced
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No full textGoing Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Emotion recognition ability across different modalities: the role of language status (L1/LX), proficiency and cultural background
Get PDFThis paper considers individual differences in the Emotion Recognition Ability (ERA) of 1368 participants in different modalities. The sample consisted of 557 first language (L1) and 881 foreign language (LX) users of English from all over the world. This study investigates four independent variables, namely modality of communication, language status (L1 versus LX), proficiency, and cultural background. The dependent variable is a score reflecting ERA. Participants were asked to identify an emotion (happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise and disgust) portrayed by a native English-speaking actress in six short recordings – either audiovisual or audio-only – embedded in an online questionnaire. English proficiency was measured through a lexical recognition test. Statistical analyses revealed that participants were better able to recognise emotions when visual cues are available. Overall, there was no difference between L1 and LX users' ERA. However, L1 users outperformed LX users when visual cues were not available, which suggest that LX users are able to reach L1-like ERA when they can rely on a sufficient amount of cues. Participants with higher proficiency scores had significantly higher ERA scores, particularly in the audio-only condition. Asian LX users were found to score significantly lower than other LX users
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