Tag: linguistic engineering

How Do We Make Sense of Things? The Language Connection

Posted on by Andreea Sepi in Übersetzungen, COMMUNICATION, INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION, Psychology, Rhetoric, Speech Communication, TRANSCREATION, TRANSLATION, Written Communication

As award-winning blogger Maria Popova once said, "We can never see the world as it really is". And that's because, on the one hand, we are part of the very system we are trying to describe, and on the other because the things we perceive make little or no sense to us until we plot … Continue reading How Do We Make Sense of Things? The Language Connection →

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Language and Deception: Distortion and Socially Constructed Reality

Posted on by Andreea Sepi in BRANDING, COMMUNICATION, INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION, MARKETING, Presentations, Psychology, TRANSCREATION, Written Communication

Motto: "What's in a name? That which we call a roseBy any other name will smell as sweet."William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet Over the weekend, a couple of my friends have watched Michael Moore's latest documentary, Planet of the Humans. The one aspect that caused the most bewilderment among them seems to be the … Continue reading Language and Deception: Distortion and Socially Constructed Reality →