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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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How to Carve Up the Emotion Space

There's still so much variation between even related languages in how we carve up the emotion space. Just because a language uses the same word for two concepts that are distinguishable doesn't necessarily mean that speakers aren't distinguishing between them, authors say. It seems like it would be really cool if we could do this from a historical perspective as well,. If we're finding languages that are historically related or geographically related have similar emotion words, then it seems like looking through history would be a fun way of looking at that.

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