LINGUIST List 36.2136

Thu Jul 10 2025

Qs: What is "awe" in your native language?

Editor for this issue: Daniel Swanson <daniellinguistlist.org>



Date: 10-Jul-2025
From: Valerie van Mulukom <v.vanmulukombrookes.ac.uk>
Subject: What is "awe" in your native language?
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We are a group of interdisciplinary scholars, located in Oxford, the United Kingdom (Oxford Brookes University & the University of Oxford), and we are running a cross-cultural project on the psychology of "awe".

However, it struck us that "awe" does not appear readily translatable into other languages, and that more information is needed about the translation and the cross-cultural psychological construct of "awe" across the world.

Therefore, we have now set up a survey through which we hope to collect international responses regarding the translation of "awe" into other languages. We also ask what connotations the translation has, and in which contexts it works.

The survey takes about 15 minutes to complete, and hopefully should be fun!
You can find the survey here: https://brookeshls.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0qD5U4yK4ppBWKO

We hope that through LinguistList we will be able to reach a variety of languages.
Do get in touch if you have any questions.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
Text/Corpus Linguistics
Translation
Typology




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