Resilience and Disaster Relief at Risk: Challenging the Linguistic and Cultural Diversity

1. International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC Davos 2010 R. Eggenberger / E. Werlen C. Badras / U. Dirks / U. Willi Resilience and Disaster Relief at Risk: Challenging the Linguistic and Cultural Diversity. E.Werlen: Linguistic related risk areas of risk communication & Linguistic Interoperability

3. Risk communication - for instance pictures

4. Risk communication - for instance BBK-brochure

5. Understanding what?

10. Reality & Experiences

11. Context and construction of reality

12. Onomasiological perspective: from situation to language

15. Example for interinstitutionel cooperation

16. Example for interinstitutionel cooperation

21. Example: Define the meaning / Semantics What does a word „mean“? „ Valeur“ of a word / of a phrase depends of different surroundings Of whom? Risikokommunikation: Risiko i.S. of „danger“  and what does „danger“ mean?  Risikoreduktion Reduction of risk Topic Darstellen der Risikobereiche der Risikokommunikation und der Risikoreduktion durch linguistische Interoperabilität Risikobereiche der Risiko-kommunikation Risk areas of risk communication Indirect textal surrounding (i.e. kind of information, knowledge ...) Direct textal surrounding (i.e. other words ...)

25. Regular circuit illustrates the isolation or „the inherent human factor“

27. Topografic and institutional complexity