CROSSING BORDERS, CULTURES AND MENTALITIES THROUGH MEDIA COMMUNICATION
CROSSING BORDERS, CULTURES AND MENTALITIES THROUGH MEDIA COMMUNICATION

Summary/Abstract: Whenever you cross the border of your native country, you are exposed to intercultural differences which you sincerely hope to address successfully. This is the case for journalists and politicians who are confronted with such situations, unavoidable in their jobs. It is said that intercultural competence consists in meeting representatives of other communities, in trying (and eventually succeeding) to know, understand and accept somebody else’s culture, universe, beliefs and mentality. Sometimes, journalists and politicians find themselves in difficult situations having to ask questions or to answer them in a convenient way. There are situations when mentalities and convictions of persons taking part in an interview are opposite to each other, but the participants to the interview must behave in a “face saving” way. We intend to analyze some manifestations of intercultural competence in two programmes: Internationales, on TV5 International et Hard Talk, broadcast on BBC International. These programmes deal with aspects of political life as seen through the eyes of politicians and journalists. The journalists and the politicians belong to different countries and they try, during the interview, to express their opinion or the opinion of their respective governments, about events that have been taking place and concern their respective countries without hurting their interlocutor’s feelings. Such communicative exchanges are interesting from a linguistic point of view, more precisely from the point of view of politeness theory and the one of conversational maxims. Papers must be prefaced by an abstract in English up to 250 words. The text will be written in 10pt high, Italic, justified, left-right alignment. A number of maximum 8 keywords will be written 10pt below the abstract. The words will be 10pt high, Italic, left alignment, and separated by a semicolon.

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