Evolving metaphors and contextual understanding of the Japanese language
Evolving metaphors and contextual understanding of the Japanese language Ever since we as human kind developed spoken and written language, we have ingrained metaphorical descriptions of the world in our nature, which corresponds to our way of thinking. However, the ways in which these metaphors arise and function in culture depends on what society we […]
How Eastern Asian Languages Differ in Writing
Are you thinking of translation into Chinese or Japanese? To an average person from Europe or North America, Chinese, Japanese and Korean may all look similar. Westerners are more used to studying and coming into contact with European languages like Spanish, German, or Russian, and the more exotic ones, such as Eastern Asian languages, all […]
