Intercultural Competence and Pragmatics

• Main Author: Schauer, Gila A. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer Nature 2024
• Subjects: Semantics & pragmatics; Communication studies; Media studies; Language: reference & general; Higher & further education, tertiary education; intercultural competence; pragmatic competence; intercultural teaching; intercultural communicative competence; L2 pragmatics; teaching of L2 pragmatics; intercultural competence in foreign language teaching; language and culture; intercultural skills; intercultural communication; communicative competence; intercultural competence in higher education; intercultural education; interlanguage pragmatics; ICC; IC
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This Open Access book examines the link between intercultural competence (IC) and pragmatics by asking frontline modern foreign language teachers in higher education teaching a variety of languages (e.g., Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish) how they conceptualise intercultural...