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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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What Are the Differences Between Cold and Hot Anger?

There are two kinds of anger. You have sort of cold anger and hot anger. So I see rage and spicy rage. And then fear is produced with a higher pitch, less variation in terms of up and down pitch variation and lower energy. There are like all these different parameters that we are manipulating when we show emotion in our voices. This seems to be English specific because there's also a Japanese study where speakers, especially female speakers, use a lower pitch for sadness.

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