Learnability of inter-cultural pragmatic competences verbalized in tourist guide discourses (original) (raw)

Abstract

Issue and aim: Regarding their professional competences, most people working in contact with tourists admit they need to master communication competences in various languages. The Common European Framework (2000 : 108) defines them at three interconnected levels represented by linguistic, sociolinguistic and pragmatic components. The latter is often eluded in the learning process; however, it is part of the discourse, and it has to be trained to reach a decent level of active inter-cultural communication. Furthermore, the communicative performance of tourist guides relies on the way they handle this competence to manage their group. Data: Willing to evidence the inter-cultural pragmatic competences within tourist guide discourses, two French corpora have been made, one of traveller and guide interactions and the second one of audio-guides. According to Gunnarsson (2009) and Petit (2010), both corpora are representative of professional texts but the first one is made of spontaneous i...

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