La compétence de communication interculturelle en français des affaires

Abstract

Intercultural is often talked about. Intercultural is said to be a fashion today but in reality it is still relatively little known in depths and therefore little accepted. This paper aims at defining intercultural and the intercultural communication competence within the framework of French for business teaching/learning. Definitions of intercultural result from the domains and ideologies to which we adhere. These definitions lead to take a stand on this issue, explicitly or implicitly, compared to life choices from the society. To build the concept of intercultural means to take into consideration different variables, namely linguistic, cultural, socio-psychological, historical, political and anthropological factors. Our aim is to analyse various definitions of intercultural, through various domains and methods, in order to define intercultural and the intercultural communication competence in the field of French for business.