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Silvia Florea, The Academic Setting: Aspects of Pragmatic Competence and Transfer in Inter-Cultural Communication

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Magazine: 11 – 12
Date: 2013
Silvia FLOREA
Universitatea “Lucian Blaga” din Sibiu, Facultatea de Litere și Arte, Catedra UNESCO “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Faculty of Letters and Arts, UNESCO Chair
: silviafl2002@yahoo.com

Abstract

The Academic Setting: Aspects of Pragmatic Competence and Transfer in Inter-Cultural Communication

 

Starting from the principle of communicative efficiency, the present paper reviews current research on pragmatic competence and, against that background, examines nonnative students’ (NNS) pragmatic competence and pragmatic transfer in academic inter-cultural communicative actions. Despite a certain universal pragmatic knowledge shared by all speakers, the present paper sustains that nonnative English students’ pragmatic competence in English (L2) can be significantly improved unless culture-specific knowledge from native (L1) intra-cultural communication situations is transferred to situations of L2 intercultural communication.

Keywords: communicative efficiency, pragmatic competence, nonnative students, academic inter-cultural communicative actions, universal pragmatic knowledge

 

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Note bibliografice

1. The term “communicative action” includes Fraser’s (1990) acceptance and is thought of as being more accurate than the more familiar “speech act” term, as it is neutral between the spoken and written modes.

2.  N.A. Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania.

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