My belly is angry, my throat is in love ΓÇô how body parts express emotions in Indigenous languages

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 July My belly is angry my throat is in love - how body parts express emotions in Indigenous languages My belly is angry, my throat is in love ΓÇô how body parts express emotions in Indigenous languages 01/07/2021 | 9 MINS Many languages in the world allude to body parts to describe emotions and feelings, as in ΓÇ£broken-heartΓÇ¥, for instance. While some have just a few expressions like this, Australian Indigenous languages tend use a lot of them, covering many parts of the body: from ΓÇ£flowing bellyΓÇ¥ for ΓÇ£feel goodΓÇ¥ to ΓÇ£burning throatΓÇ¥ for ΓÇ£be angryΓÇ¥ to ΓÇ£staggering liverΓÇ¥ meaning ΓÇ£to mournΓÇ¥. As a linguist, I first learnt this when I worked with speakers of the Dalabon, Rembarrnga, Kune, Kunwinjku and Kriol languages in the Top End, as they taught me their own words to describe emotions. Recently, with the help of my collaborator Kitty-Jean Laginha, I have looked systematically for such expressions in dictionaries and word lists from 67 Indigenous languages across Australia. We found at least 30 distinct body parts involved in about 800 emot

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 July My belly is angry my throat is in love - how body parts express emotions in Indigenous languages My belly is angry, my throat is in love ΓÇô how body parts express emotions in Indigenous languages 01/07/2021 | 9 MINS Many languages in the world allude to body parts to describe emotions and feelings, as in ΓÇ£broken-heartΓÇ¥, for instance.

While some have just a few expressions like this, Australian Indigenous languages tend use a lot of them, covering many parts of the body: from ΓÇ£flowing bellyΓÇ¥ for ΓÇ£feel goodΓÇ¥ to ΓÇ£burning throatΓÇ¥ for ΓÇ£be angryΓÇ¥ to ΓÇ£staggering liverΓÇ¥ meaning ΓÇ£to mournΓÇ¥.

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