Topics for debates
Suggested dimensions/topics:
1. Language as a media to transmit information and as a tool to exchange ideas: definitions made by Chinese and European scholars.
2. Language as a culture carrier and its translatability.
3. Language as a social signal: identity, differences between social groups and instrumentalisation of ideologies.
4. Diversity of multi-lingualism and commonality of human values.
5. Possible research cooperation in the future.