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75: Love and fury at the linguistics of emotions

Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics

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Is There a Difference Between English and French?

There's some interesting research on bilingual people and their experience of emotion terms. It often seems to happen that when people learn a language young or with family, they have stronger emotional associations with that language's emotion words. And this can be either helpful in the context where if you're trying to be extra affectionate with someone,. like say you're having kids and you want to talk about particularly affectionate words. But then also sometimes it can be helpful for people to use that second or third language and make it easier to talk about without getting overwhelmed by emotions.

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