| Asian Bookroom presents Does The Language You Speak Define Your Emotions?Join us to hear Professor Anna Wierzbicka explain how the language we speak defines our emotions. If your first language has no expression for such common concepts in English as 'frustration' or 'being reasonable' and the ideas you are used to expressing in your mother language have no linguistic outlet in English, how easy is it to live happily in Australian society?
These and many other questions are faced daily by a significant proportion of our population. We invite you to explore the fascinating and important world of linguistics and multiculturalism. Anna Wierzbicka is Professor of Linguistics at the Australian National University. She is the author of many books, including Emotions Across Languages and Cultures: Diversity and Universals and most recently Translating Lives. Living with Two Languages and Cultures.
Thursday, 14 February at 6pm Asia Bookroom, Lawry Place, Macquarie.
More about prof. Wierzbicka in Polish in the Sylwetki Twórców section
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