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Conférence de Pr. Charles LI, le 21 novembre à VillejuifLe LACITO et le programme ERC Sinotype ont le plaisir de vous inviter à une conférence du Prof. Charles LI, professeur émérite à l'Université de Californie à Santa Barbara, et chercheur invité au Collegium de Lyon, intitulée "Cognition, the Whorfian hypothesis and language complexity. A perspective from the Chinese spatial metaphor for time. ". La conférence aura lieu le mercredi 21 Novembre 2012 à 14h30, dans la salle de conférence R-de-C du bâtiment D, CNRS, 27 rue Guy Môquet, à Villejuif. (métro Villejuif-Paul Vaillant-Couturier)  Plan d'accès : http://www.vjf.cnrs.fr/reseau/glv.htmlSummary:The conference will examine issues in cognition, the Whorfian Hypothesis and language complexity from a synchronic description and a hitherto uncharted diachronic account of the linguistic as well as conceptual metaphors for PAST and FUTURE. Currently, how do Chinese people conceptualize the past and the future? In the past, how did Chinese people conceptualize the past and future? What is the dominant metaphor for PAST and FUTURE in the Chinese language presently and in the past? In what way do answers to these questions shed light on complexity?&#160;