"Intercomprehension between unrelated languages" is the title of a study day scheduled for Thursday, 7 April at 9 a.m., at the Aula magna organized by the University Language Center and dedicated to the Well-be Intercomprehension project, which was awarded a 25,000-euro grant as part of the second call for research projects promoted by the European university network EUniWell, of which Unifi is a member.
The day will be opened by institutional greetings from Delegate for International Relations and Multilateral Agreements Giorgia Giovannetti. The proceedings will be introduced by Annick Farina, president of the University Language Center, and Hugues Sheeren scientific coordinator of Wellbe-Intercomprehension.
"The goal of the project is to make it possible for two individuals who speak different Neo-Latin and/or Germanic idioms to understand each other, Farina and Sheeren explain, "without having to go through a third language of which neither of the interlocutors is a native speaker".
The day is also an opportunity to reflect on the possibility of "intercomprehension" when idioms are not close to each other as they belong to different language families, with particular reference to those within the European Union.
