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Le langage amoureux : un "coup de foudre", et après ?

Ce podcast explore le langage de l'amour avec la linguiste Julie Neveux. On y découvre les 4 phases du langage amoureux (fantasme, fusion, appropriation, figé), son évolution (ex: impact du numérique) et la puissance du "je t'aime". #amour #langage #podcast
Duration
23.1 mins
Level
intermediate
Word Count
2773 (776 unique words)
Topics
Arts & Literature
Communication
Essays
Language
Relationships
Social Issues
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Welcome to Passerelle, a podcast designed to spark curiosity in French learners.
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Hi, I'm Emilie, and this week, as always, I'd like to invite you to take a few minutes to reflect on a question together.
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In each episode, I try to bring you different topics to explore.
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My goal is simply to share some food for thought and encourage you to start asking yourself questions in French.
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Today, we're going to talk about love and language.
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Sometimes, a story begins with love at first sight.
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You meet someone, you fall in love, every relationship is different.
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And yet, the words we use to express love are often the same.
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These words of love build our stories.
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"Love Language: From First Encounters to Heartbreak, How Words Reveal Our Feelings" is the title of an essay published by Julie Neveux.
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She is a linguist.
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What interests her are the words we use. More precisely, what those words reveal about us and how they directly influence our love stories.
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Some of these stories, therefore, begin with love at first sight.
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To have a "coup de foudre" in French means to fall in love suddenly, to fall head over heels for someone immediately.
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In the 17th century, this expression referred more broadly to a heavy blow, meaning a difficult life experience, a painful ordeal to endure, often unexpected.
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It wasn't until the 18th century that "love at first sight" began to specifically refer to sudden passion.
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A passion that hits you like a ton of bricks the moment you meet someone.
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This week, we're exploring how we talk about love and what linguistics can teach us about our relationships.
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First, let's look at the different phases of love language.
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Julie Neveux identifies four in her book.

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