Jules Verne’s ‘Around the World in 80 Days’: Multilingualism, Multiculturalism and Symbols by Haroula Hatzimihail and Ioannis Pantelidis

In this announcement, the various –linguistic and non-linguistic- symbols used in the literary work ‘Around the World in 80 days’, written by Jules Verne, are examined from an intertemporal and contemporary point of view. The references through these points of view, in matters of multiculturalism and multilingualism, are becoming classical in nature: they concern the necessity of the applied ability to communicate between individuals who belong to different social classes and age groups, speak the same or different languages, come from different cultures, with rights and obligations in their various areas of life, etc.