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On Cultures and Interactions

2014

International audience; This chapter echoes the need expressed by scholars to develop a new model for examining intercultural interactions, in order to distinguish cross-cultural and intercultural approaches. Arguing that nation-centric studies have difficulty accounting for the complexity of communication processes taking place between foreigners, the author suggests that communication science and a “semiopragmatics” approach to interpersonal interactions can be used to reconceptualise the relationship between cultures, identities and communication, taking into account the mediating role of the contextual factors specific to the encounter itself. The chapter thus aims to lay down the found…