Contact:Wikus van Zyl
- +27 21 201 0071
Location: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rMsLTDIVTtO_1z2AbebOuw
Join us for the
launch of 'Multilingualism in Ancient Contexts: Perspectives from Ancient Near
Eastern and Early Christian Contexts'. Multilingualism remains a thorny issue
in many contexts, be it cultural, political, or educational. Debates and
discourses on this issue in contexts of diversity (particularly in
multicultural societies, but also in immigration situations) are often
conducted with present-day communicational and educational needs in mind, or
with political and identity agendas. This is nothing new. There are a vast number
of witnesses from the ancient West-Asian and Mediterranean world attesting to
the same debates in long past societies. Could an investigation into the
linguistic landscapes of ancient societies shed any light on our present-day
debates and discourses? This volume suggests that this is indeed the case. Register
at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rMsLTDIVTtO_1z2AbebOuw