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The Importance of Cultural Values in Intercultural Communicaton: Italians and Rumanians in Contact

Mariana Minascurta    Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia    

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abstract

In the intercultural contexts the participants not only interact on the linguistic and extra-linguistic level, but unwittingly negotiate the ‘frames’ belonging to theirs culture of reference. This study is oriented to examin some ‘communicative barriers’ that originate from the cultural values underlying the communication between Italian and Romanian interlocutors. The cultural background could act as communicative filter because is internalized in the minds of the speakers in an unconscious way.

Published
March 1, 2017
Accepted
March 21, 2017
Submitted
Nov. 21, 2016
Language
IT

Keywords: Socio-pragmatic competenceIntercultural communicative competenceSoftware of the mindIntercultural communicationCommunicative competence

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