Communicative Events: Intercultural Communication Between Italians and Germans

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_321
dc.title	Communicative Events: Intercultural Communication Between Italians and Germans
dc.contributor.author	Speggiorin Maria
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	it
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/elle/2016/1numero-monografico/la-comunicazion-interculturale-tra-italiani-e-tede/
dc.description.abstract	The aim of this article is to investigate the importance of Cultural Knowledge related to communicative events when learning or teaching a second or a foreign language. This will be especially carried out through some examples of cultural differences between the italian speaking community and the german speaking one concerning specific situations. Those examples are useful, even though not sufficient, in order to stress the necessity to persist in developing such intercultural skills when aiming at communication.
dc.relation.ispartof	EL.LE
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 5 \| Issue 1 \| March 2016
dc.issued	2016-03-01
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2280-6792
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/2280-6792/ELLE-5-1-16-3
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Communicative Event
dc.subject	Communicative Event
dc.subject	German speaking countries
dc.subject	German speaking countries
dc.subject	Kaffeetrinken
dc.subject	Kaffeetrinken
dc.subject	Pragmatics
dc.subject	Pragmatics
dc.subject	Vortrinken
dc.subject	Vortrinken

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Maria Speggiorin Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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The aim of this article is to investigate the importance of Cultural Knowledge related to communicative events when learning or teaching a second or a foreign language. This will be especially carried out through some examples of cultural differences between the italian speaking community and the german speaking one concerning specific situations. Those examples are useful, even though not sufficient, in order to stress the necessity to persist in developing such intercultural skills when aiming at communication.

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March 1, 2016

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Keywords: Pragmatics • Kaffeetrinken • Vortrinken • German speaking countries • Communicative Event

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