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Communication et Interculturation

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Interpersonal communication brings together individuals who try to make sense of one another in a given context. In this ongoing intersubjective process, they use culturally-structured knowledge and references to conjure up figures and styles rooted in identity-play. Whether in organisations, in the media, or in our open, cosmopolitan, liquid societies of late modernity, identities appear ever more present, ever more pressing. They are linked to the cultural traits that people use to “perform” and make sense of themselves and others in different social situations. The forms, figures and styles in circulation are mediated and updated through these everyday symbolic interactions, within a social sphere that has been deterritorialized then reterritorialized, notably by digital media and open state borders. How can we understand the links between communication, cultures and identities in the light of globalisation, where mediatization is present in all spheres of social life? This book builds on research published in French and English linking communication and interculturality, to then take into consideration the process of “interculturation” in the global social sphere. Through the “semiopragmatics” approach, combining micro, meso and macro-social perspectives, it sheds light on the dialectical relationship linking the cultural and identity-based dynamics of interpersonal interactions, and the communication-based circulation of cultures and identities.