Intercultural competence or transcultural competence as goal for language learning?
Organiser Apeltauer, Ernst / Hudabiunigg, Ingrid
U of Flensburg · Germany, Chemnitz U of Technology · Germany
Misunderstandings among people of different cultural backgrounds are often traced back to differing values, customs and behaviour patterns. But there are also forms of communication and implied meanings, which might provoke misunderstandings. Results of empirical research can help us to describe some systematic differences.
Contributors to Symposium:
Apeltauer, Ernst / Sayınsoy-Özünal, Birsen · Zur nominalen Anrede im Deutschen und Türkischen / Nominal forms of address in German and Turkish (U of Flensburg ·Germany, U of Istanbul · Turkey)
Hudabiunigg, Ingrid · Negotiating meanings in intercultural encounters (Chemnitz U of Technology ·Germany)
Bąk, Paweł·Metaphors in the everyday communication and in the press discourse as a problem of the Polish-German language contacts (Rzeszów U · Poland)
Krohn, Dieter · Problems of intercultural communication between Germans and Swedes in everyday conversation (U of Uppsala · Sweden)
Musolff, Andreas · “Turkish” voices in “German” debates on EU enlargement conducted by British students (Durham U · UK)
Šarić, Ljiljana · Images of the Balkans: An obstacle for cross-cultural communication (U of Oslo ·Norway)