Course TIG 224 · Year II · Summer 2024-2025

German Language. Linguistic and Cultural Mediation

Compulsory course in Translation and interpretation, taught by Valentin Todescu.

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Overview

Lecturer
Valentin Todescu
Seminar tutor
Valentin Todescu
Type of course
Compulsory
Language of instruction
English, German
Erasmus language
English, German
Domain
Applied Modern Languages
Field of study
Translation and interpretation
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Class
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Lectures/seminars
Entry requirements
-

Aims

Defining, describing and explaining the fundamental elements specific to the respective cultures and civilizations and some fundamental negotiation and mediation techniques, methods, principles

Using notions of history, culture and civilization of medium complexity to identify and explain the elements that fundamentally differentiate certain cultures and can give rise to conflicts

Applying basic principles in order to negotiate, organize events or mediate conflicts of cultural origin or that may have cultural implications

Course contents

K1. Einführungskurs: Die Herausforderung der Kommunikation in einer interkulturellen Welt – 2 Stunden

K2. Interkulturelle Kommunikationskompetenz – 2 Stunden

K3. Kulturelle Unterschiede in zwischenmenschlichen Beziehungen – 2 Stunden

K4. Gender und Kommunikation – 2 Stunden

K5. Kulturen und Lernstile – 2 Stunden

K6. Nonverbale interkulturelle Kommunikation (1) – 2 Std.

K7. Nonverbale interkulturelle Kommunikation (2) – 2 Std.

K8. Interkulturelle Kommunikation und Stereotypisierung – 2 Stunden

K9. Verhandlung von Bedeutungen innerhalb und zwischen Kulturen: Kommunikation am Arbeitsplatz – 2 Stunden

K10. Verhandeln von Bedeutungen innerhalb und zwischen Kulturen: Witze verstehen und erzählen – 2 Stunden

K11. Kulturelle Unterschiede in der Überzeugungskraft – 2 Stunden

K12. Kulturelle Unterschiede in der Struktur von Gesprächen – 2 Stunden

K13. Hintergrund, Interpretation und Missverständnisse – 2 Stunden

 

Learning outcomes

Linguistic and cultural mediation and negociation in languages A and B 

Assessment

written and oral examination

Recommended reading

Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind;
Geert Hofstede
McGraw-Hill, New York, 1991 · all
The centrality of culture: notes on the cultural revolutions of our time, in Thompson, Kenneth. Media and Cultural Regulation. London, Thousand Oaks, New Delh
Hall, Stuart
Sage Publication & The Open University, Los Angeles, 1997 · 207-238
Intercultural Competence (international ed. of 7th revised ed.).
LustMyron W. & Jolene Koester
Pearson Education, London, 2012 · all