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Meaning of emotions may vary across different languages, study shows
Posted on 12/19/19 at 7:01 pm
Posted on 12/19/19 at 7:01 pm
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The way humans conceptualise emotions such as anger, fear, joy and sadness may vary across different languages, researchers have said.
A new study, which included data from more than 2,000 languages, suggests there is “significant variation” in how emotions are expressed across cultures.
As an example, the researchers said the word “surprise” is closely associated with “fear” in some of the languages spoken in the Pacific Islands, while those in south-east Asia equate the same word with concepts like “hope” and “want”.
Given that one language family has negative associations with the word and another has positive associations, you can imagine how speakers of these different languages might respond to people jumping from behind furniture or out of a dark room and shouting 'Surprise!'
Joshua Jackson, a PhD student at the University of North Carolina and lead author on the study, said: “The emotion ‘surprise’ is particularly helpful for understanding this study.
“Given that one language family has negative associations with the word and another has positive associations, you can imagine how speakers of these different languages might respond to people jumping from behind furniture or out of a dark room and shouting ‘Surprise!’.”
The team from the University of North Carolina in the US and the Max Planck Institute in Germany used a method known as “colexification” to identify semantic patterns in a sample of 2,474 languages.
The process involved analysing words that had more than one meaning.
The researchers found that languages across the globe described emotions differently, despite being equated in translation dictionaries.
For example, Persians in Iran use the word “aenduh” to express both the concepts of “grief” and “regret”, while in Dargwa, which is spoken in the Russian republic Dagestan, the word “dard” is used to indicate “grief” as well as “anxiety”.
Writing in the journal Science, the researchers noted: “Persian speakers may therefore understand ‘grief’ as an emotion more similar to ‘regret’, whereas Dargwa speakers may understand ‘grief’ as more similar to ‘anxiety’.
In addition, the team found that geography played a role in emotional expression across different cultures, with language groups located closer to one another sharing more similar views of emotion compared with faraway language clusters.
Mr Jackson said: “This difference is likely because of historical contact and communications among nearby groups, which has led to a stronger shared understanding of emotions.”
However, the team found that all languages were able to distinguish emotions primarily based on whether they are pleasant or unpleasant to experience, regardless of geography.
According to the researchers, the findings suggest that “universal elements of emotion experience may stem from biological evolution”.
Mr Jackson said: “In such a diverse sample, I was surprised to see how universally languages distinguished pleasant emotions from unpleasant emotions.”
RTWFU
This post was edited on 12/19/19 at 7:09 pm
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Posted on 12/19/19 at 7:06 pm to Dandy Lion
Emojis about to homogenize all that.
Posted on 12/19/19 at 7:09 pm to Dandy Lion
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the researchers said the word “surprise” is closely associated with “fear” in some of the languages spoken in the Pacific Islands
Surprise is closely associated with fear in the US if it’s followed by “bitch”.
Posted on 12/19/19 at 7:20 pm to Dandy Lion
*downvotes in Spanish *
Posted on 12/19/19 at 7:37 pm to Dandy Lion
This seems like a massive waste of time, effort, and money.
Posted on 12/19/19 at 7:37 pm to Dandy Lion
What exact are you saying
Posted on 12/19/19 at 7:45 pm to Dandy Lion
Who gaf?
Posted on 12/19/19 at 9:05 pm to Dandy Lion
Get emotional on this, Choir Boi:
Ahhhh, we meet again. I guess we’ll just have to keep stealing threads since we don’t have p.m. so here goes.
Point 1: You like to cut and paste what people claiming to be masons say. Sorry, that don’t work. I do not know them to be masons but, better yet, I can provide a minimum of 10 men I know to be masons in those same positions that will have differing opinions. Guess whom I’m believing??
Point 2: I attended lodge meetings for many years. During those same years I was an active member of a v.f.d. I attended many business meetings there as well. Over the years I have attended many church services including Baptist, Catholic, and Methodist. It’s my learned opinion that Masonic meetings have nothing in common with church services. They are business meetings including pledge of allegiance and a prayer. What am I getting at? We have as much to do with Christianity as my v.f.d. Nothing for, nothing against. Freemasons are not a church, not at any level, .. er, degree.
Point 3: The meeting! So if we aren’t getting into religious issues what are we doing? Reports on sick and infirmed. Discussions about prospective members. Information passed on as to when blood mobile is going to be there. Information from the Grand Lodge. Plans for cooking jambalaya for the Special Olympics. All those anti-Christ things ya see.
Point 4: I don’t know what Old George or the other 12 of the 39 men that signed the constitution may have done in their lifetime to go against the cause of Christ but I’m pretty proud of what those Freemasons accomplished. The downside is all the signs and symbols they and others have placed in Washington. Do you know how many and their locations? I don’t.
Point 5: Speaking of those symbols and signs, I wonder how they will be used when the anti-Christ (probably George Bush) will take charge and rid us of Christianity. I’ve heard G. Bush is a member of the Biderberg Group. That group is actually the The Knights Templar and G.B. will be placed in charge of the U.S. when they take charge. The Scottish Rite and the York Rite will be under his direction. The words that was placed in my mind when I was hypnotized during my Master Mason’s degree will be passed out through the land and we will be powerless to resist. I think those bad boys known as Shriners, everyone of them a Freemason, will be next in line while us Master Masons will be the military equivalent of privates. Be ever watchful. The boogieman cometh.
Point 6: You want a real live boogieman? One that exists right now and is a danger to Christianity? How about an old man that tells us we should build bridges, not fences and then goes back to Rome where he hides behind walls and counts his gold? No, not every pope. Just this one. A known believer in socialism. And what does socialism bring? Eventually it seeks the removal of religion and replaces it with belief in government. The greatest danger to Christianity, socialism/communism. Rhetorical question: Do you give your 10% to the church? Any at all? You are guilty of not doing your part for Christ if the answer is no. Part of your money is going to a man whose works will lead to the removal of Christianity if the answer is yes. … and why is he sitting on so much gold when people in this world are so needy?
Ahhhh, we meet again. I guess we’ll just have to keep stealing threads since we don’t have p.m. so here goes.
Point 1: You like to cut and paste what people claiming to be masons say. Sorry, that don’t work. I do not know them to be masons but, better yet, I can provide a minimum of 10 men I know to be masons in those same positions that will have differing opinions. Guess whom I’m believing??
Point 2: I attended lodge meetings for many years. During those same years I was an active member of a v.f.d. I attended many business meetings there as well. Over the years I have attended many church services including Baptist, Catholic, and Methodist. It’s my learned opinion that Masonic meetings have nothing in common with church services. They are business meetings including pledge of allegiance and a prayer. What am I getting at? We have as much to do with Christianity as my v.f.d. Nothing for, nothing against. Freemasons are not a church, not at any level, .. er, degree.
Point 3: The meeting! So if we aren’t getting into religious issues what are we doing? Reports on sick and infirmed. Discussions about prospective members. Information passed on as to when blood mobile is going to be there. Information from the Grand Lodge. Plans for cooking jambalaya for the Special Olympics. All those anti-Christ things ya see.
Point 4: I don’t know what Old George or the other 12 of the 39 men that signed the constitution may have done in their lifetime to go against the cause of Christ but I’m pretty proud of what those Freemasons accomplished. The downside is all the signs and symbols they and others have placed in Washington. Do you know how many and their locations? I don’t.
Point 5: Speaking of those symbols and signs, I wonder how they will be used when the anti-Christ (probably George Bush) will take charge and rid us of Christianity. I’ve heard G. Bush is a member of the Biderberg Group. That group is actually the The Knights Templar and G.B. will be placed in charge of the U.S. when they take charge. The Scottish Rite and the York Rite will be under his direction. The words that was placed in my mind when I was hypnotized during my Master Mason’s degree will be passed out through the land and we will be powerless to resist. I think those bad boys known as Shriners, everyone of them a Freemason, will be next in line while us Master Masons will be the military equivalent of privates. Be ever watchful. The boogieman cometh.
Point 6: You want a real live boogieman? One that exists right now and is a danger to Christianity? How about an old man that tells us we should build bridges, not fences and then goes back to Rome where he hides behind walls and counts his gold? No, not every pope. Just this one. A known believer in socialism. And what does socialism bring? Eventually it seeks the removal of religion and replaces it with belief in government. The greatest danger to Christianity, socialism/communism. Rhetorical question: Do you give your 10% to the church? Any at all? You are guilty of not doing your part for Christ if the answer is no. Part of your money is going to a man whose works will lead to the removal of Christianity if the answer is yes. … and why is he sitting on so much gold when people in this world are so needy?
Posted on 12/19/19 at 9:37 pm to Dandy Lion
K
Posted on 12/19/19 at 10:33 pm to Dandy Lion
Tl; dr: Sapir Whorf hypothesis
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