Anna Wierzbicka First Language Summary

The author Anna Wierzbicka is right about the fact that bilingualism has a major influence on one person’s emotions or thoughts because every specific language has its own lexical and cultural script in order to provide emotions and feelings. Consequently, that leads to an alteration of the conceptual representation of emotion, therefore bilingual individuals are mostly tempted to express different emotions based on the language they are speaking at the time. Moreover,they have to adopt different personalities considering that the differences in how emotions are expressed affect individual’s ability to reason about them. In this paper, I argue that bilingual experience engage different emotions, different perspectives for their speakers
This fact leads to the idea that bilingual persons express and feel deeper emotions in their first language than in the second language. Their emotions get more affected in their first language because of its specific scripts, conceived especially for the correct use of expressing feelings and emotions in that language, considering the fact that they are familiar with that type of script. Furthermore, there is a complex and strong relationship between emotions and language and many specialized authors approach this subject, more specifically the conceptualizations and representations of emotions in different languages among bilinguals, especially when it comes to the first language of the speaker. The author Anna Wierzbicka exposes this controversial topic in one of her articles in which she studies and presents the impact that bilingual experiences have on people’s emotions and also touches on the fact that bilingual individuals experience greater emotional intensity in their first language compared to the second one. She states in her article an example of this main