Psycholinguistics

 

There is no coincidence that English people are known by privacy, Polish people by honesty and Japanese by respect for the others. The differences between peoples come from the first language: structure, grammar, words. In the book "Through the Language Glass. How Worlds Colour Your Wold” dr Guy Deutscher states that the language we speak creates in our brain certain schemes and evaluation of reality. Therefore, the word "bridge" for Spanish is associated with strength, but for Germans with elegance. In most European languages, not just people, but the words have a specific gender and phenomena that influence our perception. Death in Polish is feminine, so death’s imagine is an old woman with a scythe in hand, while in German is masculine (der Tod), in English, there is no gender, so it looks like skeleton. The importance of gender things show cartoons, dubbed in different languages, for example in French fork will be dubbed by a woman, while in Polish by a man. That shows that by learning languages we don’t only discover different cultures. Moreover, that’s the best key to understanding the world.

Source: nesweek.pl

The true face of Dracula

Dracula is a horror novel written by the Irish writer Bram Stoker, published in England in 1897. That’s why many of us thinks that Dracula is only a vampire. However, the true is that Dracula is also historical figure and namely it is Vlad III the Impaler. He lived in the fifteenth century and, as it can be assumed from his nickname, he wasn’t very mild king. Everyone thinks his castle is in Bran, but in fact it’s in Poenari. He was often capricious ruler, he was as cruel as he could impaled mice when he was closed in the dungeon. Currently, in Romania Dracula's character is used to drive tourism. Romanians approach him with respect, treating him as an important figure in their history, often as a national hero. 

Romanian king, Vlad Impaler

Castel of Dracula

The real castle of  Dracula

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