English-Slovene Intercultural Studies

• Ways of defining culture and cultural difference
• Cultural models
• Globalisation and localisation
• Socio-cultural norms, conventions, orientations
• Metacommunication and frames
• Context of situation, cultural context
• Relationship between language and culture
• Social and cultural specifics of English speaking environments and Slovenia
• Speech acts in Slovene and English
• Different kinds of discourse in Slovene and English
• Translation and and intercultural communicative competence

Predmet temelji na gradivu, ki ga pripravita predavatelja. Priporočena literatura:/
The course is based on material prepared by the lecturer. Recommended reading:
Connor, Ulla. 1996. Contrastive Rhetoric. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. COBISS.SI-ID - 3497314
Hampden-Turner, Charles and Trompenaars, Fons. 2012. Riding The Waves of Culture: Understanding Diversity in Global Business. McGraw Hill. COBISS.SI-ID - 21075222
Katan, David. 2004. Translating Cultures. An Introduction for Translators, Interpreters and Mediators. 2nd edition. Manchester: St Jerome. COBISS.SI-ID – 56015458 2nd ed. 2014
Limon, David. 2007. Writing across cultures. In: Delanoy, Werner (ed), Helbig, Jörg (ed.), James, Allan (ed.) Towards a Dialogic Linguistics. Wien: Lit Verlag. pp. 147-159. COBISS.SI-ID - 35424098
Limon, David. and Šabec, Nada. 2001. Across Cultures: Slovene-British-American Intercultural Communication. Maribor: Obzorja. COBISS.SI-ID - 45731073
Mole, John. 2003. Mind Your Manners: Managing Business Cultures in the New Global Europe. London: Nicholas Brealey. COBISS.SI-ID – 2011
Scollon, Ron and Scollon, Suzanne Wong. 1995. Intercultural Communication: A Discourse Approach. Oxford: Blackwell. COBISS.SI-ID – 56352866 2012 3rd ed.