Spoken Discourse analysis on pragmatic failure of Intercultural communication in higher education

Forschungsarbeit , 2016 , 25 Seiten

Sprachwissenschaft / Sprachforschung (fachübergreifend)

The issue of intercultural awareness in education has become recently debatable between the researchers, authors and Discourse analysts in the last few decades as a result of its importance in all forms of education for a better future. This led to that the year of 2008 to be the European year of intercultural dialogue.

Based on the debate between the researchers that acquiring English does not have to be separated from acquiring the culture that it formulates, this paper analyzes the spoken discourses between people belong to different contexts to emphasize on the importance of including intercultural competence in the educational pedagogy and the problems that could occur in its absence.

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
9.1 Appendix 1
9.2 Appendix 2
9.3 Appendix 3
9.4 Appendix 4

• Autor: Elsayed Mahmoud (Autor:in)
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
• Seiten: 25
• Katalognummer: V343658
• ISBN (eBook): 9783668342026
• ISBN (Buch): 9783668342033
• Sprache: Englisch
• Schlagworte: discourse analysis, discourse, intercultural competence