Publications

Publication details [#46666]

Bouchara, Abdelaziz. 2002. Höflichkeitsformen in der Interaktion von Deutschen und Arabern. Ein Beitrag zur interkulturellen Kommunikation. [Politeness Forms in Interaction between Germans and Arabs. A contribution to intercultural communication.] (Reihe Germanistische Linguistik 235). De Gruyter. IX+265 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

German

Keywords

interaction | intercultural communication | language and culture | misunderstanding | politeness

Language as a subject

Arabic | German

Annotation

Drawing on Gumperz' intercultural communication approach and Brown/Levinson's politeness theory, this study examines misunderstandings between Germans and Arabs in the course of private social gatherings, caused by cultural differences in the interpretation of politeness.