Resumen de ‘Good for you!’ Processing social emotions in L2 discourse comprehension: an ERP study
Andrea González-García Aldariz, Pablo Rodríguez Gómez, Carlos Romero-Rivas, Sara Rodríguez Cuadrado, Alice Foucart, Eva M. Moreno
Social factors impact sentence comprehension in a first language (L1), suggesting that semantic processing cannot be dissociated from social and moral emotions in relation to pro/antisocial individuals. Given that integrating multiple types of information and processing emotion-laden pragmatic information is costlier in a second language (L2), we investigated whether social factors would affect discourse comprehension similarly in L2. Processing the outcomes of scenarios involving pro/antisocial protagonists provoked similar neural patterns in L2 as in L1 (Rodríguez-Gómez, Martín-Loeches, Colmenares, Romero Ferreiro & Moreno, 2020), suggesting that L2 users simultaneously integrate semantic and discourse-pragmatic information during sentence comprehension.
