Pragmatic failure of intercultural communication in higher education. A spoken discourse analysis

Travail de Recherche , 2012 , 24 Pages

Médias / Communication - Communication interculturelle

The researcher of this paper is interested in analyzing spoken discourse. Due to the absence of cross-cultural awareness there could be a high obstacle in understanding the message that is perfect linguistically. This could generally mirror pragmatic failure and in particular, in the classrooms.

This research paper therefore aims at analyzing many conversations to the language in use in different contexts for achieving the following:

- Highlighting the importance of intercultural awareness betweenEnglish speakers / learners as well as the problems caused by itsabsence.
- Analyzing different spoken discourses on pragmatic failure interms of words, sentence, discourse and Intonation.
- Defining the intercultural competence, pragmatic competenceand discourse analysis.
- Presenting the relationship between the discourse analysis andculture.
- Recommending pedagogical implications to English authors,teachers, educational policy makers and learners.

As the number of non-native speakers has become recently increasing and has surpassed the number of native speakers, the culture of non-native speakers could not be ignored in the interaction between non-native speakers to native speakers or between the non-native speakers to native-speakers. Hence, the importance of cultural dimension in communicative competence has been also increasing between English learners and speakers.

Table of Contents

1 Background of the Study
1.1 Introduction
1.2 A rationale for the choice of topic
1.3 Purpose of the Study
1.4 Significance of the Study
1.5 Questions of the study

2 Literature Review
2.1 Intercultural competence(ICC), Discourse and pragmatic competence
2.2 Cultural studies and Discourse analysis

3 Methodology

4 Data analysis of spoken discourse
4.1 Cultural words
4.2 Sentence level
4.3 Discourse level
4.4 Intonation

5 Discussion

6 Pedagogical implications

7 Conclusion

8 References

9 Appendices 24-
9.1 Appendix 1
9.2 Appendix 2
9.3 Appendix 3
9.4 Appendix 4

• Auteur: Elsayed Mahmoud (Auteur)
• Année de publication: 2012
• Pages: 24
• N° de catalogue: V318326
• ISBN (ebook): 9783668192621
• ISBN (Livre): 9783668192638
• Langue: anglais
• mots-clé: pragmatic