LA COMPÉTENCE DE COMMUNICATION
INTERCULTURELLE EN FRANÇAIS DES AFFAIRES
The intercultural communication competence in French for business
Author(s): Carmen AvramSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics
Published by: EDITURA ASE
Keywords: Businesses; intercultural communication; competence; intercultural definition
Summary/Abstract: Intercultural is often talked about. Intercultural is said to be a fashion today but in reality it is stillrelatively little known in depths and therefore little accepted.This paper aims at defining intercultural and the intercultural communication competence within theframework of French for business teaching/learning.Definitions of intercultural result from the domains and ideologies to which we adhere. Thesedefinitions lead to take a stand on this issue, explicitly or implicitly, compared to life choices fromthe society. To build the concept of intercultural means to take into consideration differentvariables, namely linguistic, cultural, socio-psychological, historical, political and anthropologicalfactors.Our aim is to analyse various definitions of intercultural, through various domains and methods, inorder to define intercultural and the intercultural communication competence in the field of Frenchfor business.
Journal: Dialogos
- Issue Year: 9/2008
- Issue No: 17
- Page Range: 75-80
- Page Count: 5
- Language: French