This paper discusses the relationship between the emotive function and multilingualism. By discussing the two main theoretical approaches of this relationship - on the one hand, the vision of the mother tongue as the only true medium of emotions, and on the other, the vision of the second language as a possibility for the creative recombination of emotional scripts - , this article insists on interculturalism as a valid perspective for research about emotions in human language. Comparing the theoretical reflections of Anna Wierzbicka and Aneta Pavlenko, both of whom were influenced by emigration, with the increasingly deterritorialized status of poetic language, this text aims to emphasize the ambivalence of the discursive articulation of emotions.
emotive function; multilingualism; interculturalism