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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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The Relationship Between Grief and Anxiety

In Persian, to move beyond love, Persian has a single word that encompasses the concepts of both grief and regret. If you turn to a language like a dar gua, grief is more closely linked with what we would translate as the concept of anxiety. In Austronesian languages, which are spoken in sort of the South Pacific and Southeast Asia, they've got fear and surprised as linked together on their emotional map.

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