Language May Help Create, Not Just Convey, Thoughts and Feelings

[alex gross]

> I love you in English, feel ambivalent about it in French, but in Yahgan 
> you all turn my stomach.

Thanks, Jess, I feel much the same wayS about everyone here.

This finding has been around for a long time & used to be considered basic 
in our field.

Ervin-Tripp, 1964:

http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ervintrp/pdf/An%20Analysis%20of%20the%20Interaction%20of%20Language,%20Topic%20and%20Listener.pdf

Can anyone guess why it has receded from us?

All the best!

alex


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From: "jess tauber" <phonosemantics at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 4:08 PM
Subject: [FUNKNET] Language May Help Create, Not Just Convey,Thoughts and 
Feelings


> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101103111206.htm
>
> I love you in English, feel ambivalent about it in French, but in Yahgan 
> you all turn my stomach.
>
> Jess Tauber
> phonosemantics at earthlink.net
>