Understanding Emotions Without Language AOW #10

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111102093045.htm

This week I read an article about a study conducted to find out if knowing different languages affects the way that a human perceives body language and facial expression.  They studied German speakers to speakers of Yucatec Maya, a Mayan language spoken in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico.  The findings were that while they used different word to describe the emotion, they were both able to name the same emotion.  The context of this piece was that people understand that we perceive body language, but we don't understand how we do it.  This study was conducted and released for those people.  The purpose of this piece was to inform the general public of this new information.  They reached this purpose through using logos and ethos.  The logos of this piece was in the study itself.  They brought in factual evidence to support their claim.  The ethos was then supported by this use of the study.