How Your Personality Changes in Another Language
Kerstin answers a listener question about how personalities change when people speak different languages
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Show Notes
In today's podcast, I'm excited to tackle a big question:
Listener Maria writes that she hears people sounding different to her depending on the language they speak. Could it be that learning another language can change your entire personality?
Listen in to hear me discuss a few of the aspects that contribute to how we perceive personality through a language:
- Language Attitudes and Egocentricity: What you think about different languages and accents
- Pragmatics: How people use language to navigate interactions
- Language Skills: How a learner's situation affects how they express themselves
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Links:
- Fluent Show Episode 95 “French is Romantic, Arabic is Aggressive”
- M.Lynne Murphy : University of Sussex
- Lynne Murphy (@lynneguist) / Twitter
- Kerstin | The Fluent Show (@thefluentshow) / Twitter
- Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage - Penelope Brown, Stephen C. Levinson - Google Books
- Sociolinguistics | Linguistic Society of America
- Politeness in Europe (Multilingual Matters)