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“Love” in different linguistic cultures
View(s):A lecture on ‘Comparative Analysis of the Concept of “Love” in Different Linguistic Cultures’ will be delivered by Ven Dr Waskaduwe Siri Sarana Thero, on July 28 at the Council Room of the Royal Asiatic Society, 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 7 (1st floor of the Mahaweli Centre Building) at 5. 30 pm).
Venerable Dr Waskaduwe Siri Sarana Thero is a former Researcher at the South Ural State University, Russia. His lecture explores love through psycholinguistics and cultural-linguistics, comparing how Sinhalese, Russian, German, and Kazakh speakers understand it.
It provides an introduction to psycholinguistic and cultural-linguistic research methodologies, and key findings in these fields, focusing on how different cultures perceive the concept of “love”.