Search results for "cultural communication"
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Le plurilinguisme au sein d'AEGEE
2009
4 pages à partir de la présentation orale, lors des "Premières assises européennes du plurilinguisme" en novembre 2005; Ce chapitre décrit et analyse les pratiques langagières observées (langues parlées) au sein de l'association étudiante AEGEE. Il examine la question du multilinguisme au sein de l'association étudiante AEGEE, et constate une tension entre trois occurrences complémentaires : le recours pragmatique à une langue véhiculaire, l'idéal d'une communauté polyglotte, et un plurilinguisme spontané dans certaines situations.
Le fonctionnement d'un espace utopique européen
2008
12 pages; Ce chapitre présente la notion d'« espace utopique », définie à partir de la réflexion de Paul Ricœur. En examinant la manière dont l'association étudiante AEGEE se construit en tant qu'espace utopique, ainsi que les conséquences pour son fonctionnement, le chapitre tente d'apporter un nouvel éclairage aux travaux, menés par Éric Dacheux, sur les « associations européennes de citoyenneté ».
What is intercultural communication competence in the context of the European Parliament? : perceptions about the required intercultural skills from …
2005
Project-Based Learning and Competence Assessment in Translation Training
2016
This proverb condenses the philosophical underpinnings for the Declaration of Bologna and the transformation of the methodological scenario in higher education. The process of harmonisation and convergence of educational curricula in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) has involved undertaking far-reaching transformations in university systems at all levels. This also entails new implications and challenges for teachers and students: changes in learning objectives and teaching methodologies, the use of ICTs and new ways of gaining access to knowledge and communication, changes in evaluation systems and organisation of resources, etc.
A test of the relationship between argumentativeness, individualism/collectivism, and conflict style preference in the United States and Finland
2016
This study explored relationships between argumentativeness and collectivism/individualism in Finland and the United States. Data were gathered in the United States (n = 412) and Finland (n = 261). The analysis suggested: (a) collectivism was negatively correlated with argumentativeness, (b) individualism was positively correlated with argumentativeness, and (c) Finnish participants reported lower levels of argumentativeness than Americans. Cultural differences between the United States and Finland are discussed as reasons for the differences between the nations on argumentativeness. peerReviewed
Dispositifs interculturels à distance
2008
In the context of intercultural online communication, certain dimensions of ICT we might call “figures sensibles” (Boutaud 2006) can be critically useful to understand co-construction, especially when these dimensions are also constitutive of an educational context. Thus, transparency, performance and conviviality help us interpret what can be called collaborative online interaction. Dispositive memory thrives on these dimensions and completes them. It explains in part the continuity of socially constructed identity of the community in question. It is the community aspect which in our context imposes itself despite cultural differences.
Troubled Talk in Cross-cultural Business Emails. A digital Conversation Analysis of Interactions
2018
This study analyses the troubled talk occurring in an exchange of business emails between an Italian manufacturing company's general manager, his staff and their Pakistani consultants. The exchange is a communicative event in which conflicts (i.e. troubles) arise due to a variety of causes: the computer-mediated communication, the use of English as a Lingua Franca, the cultural differences between interactants and the stressful nature of the situation. Set in the tradition of studies which look at issues of intercultural differences in communication, (Katan 2006; Cucchi 2010; Manca 2016), this research addresses the question of the ongoing adaptation between high context and low context com…
Teaching and learning about interculturality in 2020: reflections on current and future practices from a European University perspective
2020
International audience; 20 years of studying and teaching interculturality as a British expat in France have shaped the way I think about and teach interculturality applied to business settings in today’s mediatized world. Accusations of cultural appropriation, discrimination, religious and ethnic tensions, even genocides are among the challenges societies are currently facing, linked to identity claims and power dynamics, where “cultures” serve very often as a pretext for symbolic or physical violence. Yet, despite the lonely protests of a few academics, dominant media discourse, numerous politicians as well as “public opinion” in many countries all tend to legitimise the view that “cultur…