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True Meanings of Words of Emotion Get Lost in Translation: Study Community Community African MES Indian violets: once School bags P7 very popular P16 multiple flowers have rather awards of excellence vanished from view, at 32nd CBSE but it doesn’t have to Gulf Principals’ be this way. Conference. Wednesday, January 15, 2020 Jumada I 20, 1441 AH Doha today: 140 - 220 Inaccurate True meanings of words of emotion get lost in translation: Study. P4-5 COVER STORY STARTUP QATAR HOLLYWOOD Entrepreneurship: a Joker tops Oscar mindset than a mere skill. 2020 nominations. Page 8-9 Page 15 2 GULF TIMES Wednesday, January 15, 2020 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 5am Shorooq (sunrise) 6.23am Zuhr (noon) 11.44am Asr (afternoon) 2.46pm Maghreb (sunset) 5.06pm Isha (night) 6.36pm USEFUL NUMBERS Sarileru Neekevvaru Ajay Krishna is a true-blue soldier who will disable bombs CAST: Aadhi, Ajay, Rajsekhar Aning without safety suit on and walk into operations without a DIRECTION: Anil Ravipudi helmet on his head – that’s how you know he likes to live life SYNOPSIS: Story of a tough army major who is deployed on the edge and is the hero because he has nothing to lose. on a mission to keep the country safe from external threats. 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Winter Dragon Boat Festival 2020 WHERE: Museum of Islamic Art WHEN: January 24 Public Speaking Classes for Adults Row, paddle, hurry up! Qatar’s largest WHERE: Sharq Capital, C-Ring Road Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Wednesday, January 15, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Lost in translation Analysis finds there may be no universal concepts for some emotions. By Nicola Davis Even though we might say there is a word for anger in hundreds of languages, these words actually might not mean the same thing — Joshua Conrad Jackson, co-author of the research from University of North Carolina ‘ Chapel Hill ’ Wednesday, January 15, 2020 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY he true meaning of words may be lost in translation, according to research suggesting the way “I always struggle Tpeople understand terms such as “anger” or “love” diff ers between to translate the languages. For example, while the concept word ‘vulnerable’ of “love” is closely linked to “like” to Polish because and “want” in Indo-European languages, it is strongly linked to there is no direct “pity” in Austronesian languages — a family that includes Hawaiian equivalent. When and Javanese. “Even though we might say I listen to my there is a word for anger in grandmother’s hundreds of languages, these words actually might not mean the stories about her same thing,” said Joshua Conrad Jackson, co-author of the research childhood during from University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. the second world Writing in the journal Science, war, I wonder Jackson and colleagues report how they carried out an analysis whether there of 24 emotional concepts, such as anger, love and pride, across 2,474 was no space for languages. The study also included more than 2,400 non-emotional vulnerability in concepts — such as “quarrel” — Polish history” that were used to further explore meanings and context of emotion — Maja Konkolewska, words. The team then carried out interpreter an analysis based on multiple meanings of words. The Hawaiian word “pu’iwa” something of a paradox. “Our of “fear” and comparing the way are still better than nothing. “What Dr Angeles Carreres, an expert refers to both “fear” and results suggest that there is no that it is expressed and co-lexifi ed we are saying in this paper is not to in translation from Cambridge “surprise”, suggesting a strong single concept of “fear”, but we in diff erent languages,” said throw out translation dictionaries; University, said dictionaries link between the two concepts. couldn’t have done the analysis Jackson. instead, we are saying we can’t take often give a false notion of Other languages in the same without starting with the concept But the team say dictionaries them too seriously,” said Jackson. equivalence, noting that even family may have the same word physical entities like the moon for either “fear” or “surprise” and can be referred to differently a third word, such as “unknown”, “People may universally have the experience of — for example as masculine or furthering the likelihood of a having their heart beat faster when threatened. feminine — reflecting a different link between these two emotion view of the same object. History, concepts within that language However, there is variability in the way that we make she adds, can also shape the family. In other languages, meaning of terms. “The word however, there might be no such meaning of that experience, the behaviours that we ‘nation’ is notorious for the range overlaps, suggesting that fear and of different, often conflicting surprise are unrelated concepts for associate with the experience, and the way that we associations it can bring with it, those speakers. verbally communicate the experience to other people dependent on a country’s, or a The team found emotion community’s, history.” concepts across all language as an emotion” Maja Konkolewska, a freelance families tend to be grouped Polish/English translator and together based on whether they — Joshua Conrad Jackson interpreter and an associate of the were positive or negative and Stephen Spender Trust, said she passive or energetic.
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