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Tytus, Agnieszka Ewa and Marko Mijatovic. 2019. The bi-personal bilingual: a study of the perceived feeling of a changed self. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 22 (2) : 224–236.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | culture | emotion | language proficiency | personality

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper states that four chief categories play a crucial role in occasioning the feeling of becoming a different person when using a different language, to wit cultural differences, language proficiency, ‘breaking free’ from the L1 personality, and personality shifts due to interlocutor reactions.