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Poster for a conference on language and society

poster for a conference on language and society

a poster for a conference : The World in Crisis(es) Language(s) and Society(ies) in Motion The word crisis, derived from the Greek word krisis, means judgment, decision. Conceptually speaking, "a crisis is an illness" (a conceptual metaphor justified diachronically by its etymological meaning of "the decisive phase of an illness"), or "it is a war", if we focus on the meaning of "an outbreak with violent manifestations". It is, therefore, a moment of major change. Our societies are plagued by Ver mais