Tradiţii şi obiceiuri – reprezentări identitare. Studiu de caz
Traditions and Customs –Identity Representations .Case Study

Summary/Abstract: Each person has its own process of internalization and expression of national identity points of reference. However, there are elements to which they constantly resort, irrespective of the culture of belonging of the individual: traditions and habits. This study presents an intercultural dialogue between the students of the same university ("Iuliu Haţieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Cluj-Napoca) of different nationalities (Romanian-French) who resort to tradition for shaping an identity picture. The contact between the two cultures was possible due to the motivation of students to discover more of each other's culture and their desire to improve their language skills. In this context, we intend to make an inventory of common / distinct elements presented by students for shaping an identity portrait. The questions that guided the analysis are: why? how? (What is what we consider representative to be told about the traditions of own culture? How is the discourse?). This research was conducted within international project Tandem, bilingualism and construction of disciplinary knowledge - an approach of French as a foreign language or French with specific objectives in contact with the languages of Central and Eastern Europe, coordinated by lecturer PhD Aurora Băgiag held at the “Iuliu Haţieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in the period 2012-2014.

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