Pragmatic competence and pragmatic failure in cross cultural communication: usage of vehicular...

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Pragmatic competence and pragmatic failurein cross cultural communication:

usage of vehicular languages and standardised tools

Paolo Tentori - Novantiqua Multimedia


Cross cultural communication

Webref: Thomas J., Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Failure,https://rodas5.us.es/file/a26cd06f-d80f-47b8-a5f0-fb23430aa5fc/1/thomas_failure_wimba_SCORM.zip/files/thomas_pragmatic_failure.pdf

Communication between two people who don’t sharea common linguistic or cultural background.

Linguistic competence

Decontextualized knowledge of “intonation, syntax, semantic”.

Pragmatic competence

The ability to use language “effectively in context”.





Linguistic competence“Grammar”

Decontextualized “formal system of language”.

Pragmatic competence“Pragmatics”

The use of language “in a goal-oriented speech situation”.





Linguistic competence“Grammar”

Prescriptive rules.

Pragmatic competence“Pragmatics”

Probable rather then categorical rules.

“The nature of pragmatic ambivalence is such that it is not possi-ble to say that the pragmatic force of an utterance is ‘wrong’.

All we must avoid is that it could fail to achieve the speaker’s goal.





Sentence meaning

One level “of meaning”.

Speaker meaning

Several level “of meaning”.




Speaker’s intention

Pragmatic failure

Inability to understand “what is meant by what is said”.

Pragmatic competence

Ability to understand “what is meant by what is said”.




Standardised translation

Linguistic propose“Grammar”

Provided “from specialistes:translators, cultural mediators”.

Pragmatic instruments“Pragmatics”

Several level “of instruments:written, audio, direct speech”.

Enel


Webref: http://www.gr.ch/DE/themen/Integration/neuzugezogen/gesundheit/krankheit/Seiten/default.aspx


Pragmatic instruments

“Flexibility” in language processing

“Problem solving” approach



Pragmatic instrumentsTelephone interpreter services

Webref: http://www.eurostreet.it https://www.apss.tn.it/stranieri



Webref: Stathopoulou M. (2015). Cross-Language Mediation in Foreign Language Teaching and Testing, Bristol: Mul-tilingual Matter

Interlingual Mediation

Recontextualisation

Simplification, condensation,elaboration, refocusing.

Compatibility

Mediation strategy in order to achieve a communicative goal.

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