What is love It depends which language you speak 1 nbsp Now a study of two dozen terms related to emotion in nearly 2500 languages suggests those misunderstandings aren t all in your head Instead emotional concepts like love shame and anger vary in meaning from culture to culture even when we translate them into the same words People have argued about emotions since the ancient Greeks To find out how a concept like love varies from language to language Joshua Conrad Jackson a Phd on the subject carried out a study 2 nbsp He teamed up with Johann Mattis List a computational linguist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena Germany who manages the Database of Cross Linguistic Colexifications CLICS uses data from field linguists and anthropologists to catalog relationships between concepts and the words that represent them in nearly 3000 languages Importantly CLICS can take words that represent more than one concept like dull and reveal other words that express the same concepts in all languages in the database That kind of concept mapping was just what Jackson was looking for 3 nbsp Over 2 years Jackson and List assembled a team of statisticians psychologists and linguists to analyze the CLICS data in the largest ever study of its kind They started with 24 emotional concepts and used multiple statistical methods to map how they were related to different words in 2474 languages in 20 language families 4 nbsp The more words the two concepts had in common the closer their relationship When the researchers analyzed the networks they found that the links between emotional concepts differed even more than expected across language families nbsp 5 nbsp At the very least Jackson hopes his study offers some insight for language learners Just learning the words isn t learning the language he says adapted from https www sciencemag org news 2019 12 what love it depends which language you speak The passage doesn t mention the following A Emotional concepts such as love shame and anger can be interpreted differently in a different language nbsp B CLICS is a large database of certain emotional concepts and the words that represent them nbsp C Learning a language is more than learning the vocabulary nbsp nbsp D A number of experts in the related fields joined forces in the largest study ever conducted E Learning a language should go hand in hand with learning the culture nbsp

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C Learning a language is more than learning the vocabulary nbsp nbsp Analysis A Emotional concepts such as love shame and anger can be interpreted differently in a different language nbsp 1 nbsp Now a study of two dozen terms related to emotion in nearly 2500 languages suggests those misunderstandings aren t all in your head Instead emotional concepts like love shame and anger vary in meaning from culture to culture even when we translate them into the same words B CLICS is a large database of certain emotional concepts and the words that represent them nbsp CLICS uses data from field linguists and anthropologists to catalogue relationships between concepts and the words that represent them in nearly 3000 languages D A number of experts in the related fields joined forces in the largest study ever conducted 3 nbsp Over 2 years Jackson and List assembled a team of statisticians psychologists and linguists to analyze the CLICS data in the largest ever study of its kind nbsp E Learning a language should go hand in hand with learning the culture nbsp nbsp Instead emotional concepts like love shame and anger vary in meaning from culture to culture even when we translate them into the same words Except Analysis C Learning a language is more than learning the vocabulary nbsp nbsp nbsp At the very least Jackson hopes his study offers some insight for language learners Just learning the words isn t learning the language he says not vocabulary

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The answer is D A number of experts in the related fields joined forces in the largest study ever conducted