INTERACTION AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION PATTERNS WITHIN THE ROMANIAN VILLAGE
INTERACTION AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION PATTERNS WITHIN THE ROMANIAN VILLAGE

Summary/Abstract: The present paper aims at analyzing patterns of interaction and intercultural communication within two Romanian multiethnic villages in order to identify the common features of the Romanian pattern of openness, dialogue and intercultural communication. The paper is based on a research accomplished between 2012 and 2013, covering the intercultural relationship within two villages: Cața, situated in Brasov County and Breaza, situated in Suceava County. Cața village was founded by Germans and is currently inhabited by Romanians, Hungarians and Roma people, whereas Breaza, located in Suceava County, is inhabited by Romanians, Hutsuls and Ruthenians who declared themselves Romanians in the 2011 census. The research was conducted through the participative observation method (completed by interviews), using a communicative behavior pre-coding scheme, implying an observation record and an interview guide constructed in compliance with Dell Hymes’ S-P-E-A-K-I-N-G model. Despite their common historical background, these two cultural spaces are characterized by different patterns of intercultural communication. Nevertheless, the most relevant features are similar and create a common framework of intercultural communication: both cultural spaces are permissive in relation to intercultural communication and both communities are at least multiethnic speech communities governed by rules of coexistence, specific to each village. The analysis of the intercultural communication within Cața and Breaza and the comparative analysis reveal a constant of all previous ethno-psychological researches with regard to Romanian people, a communicative disposition of the Romanians and, implicitly, their openness, although under the apparent mark of closeness.

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