Comment envisager le paradigme de la politesse en contexte d’enseignement/apprentissage du français médical ?
How to Look at the Paradigm of Politeness within the Context of Medical French Teaching/Learning ?

Case study : Manuel de langue française pour les sciences et les métiers de la santé [French for Science and Health care sector]

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to bring new impetus into the paradigm of cultural mediation, an element inherent to our present-day perception and assimilation of alterity. From this perspective, the notion of politeness is at the core of the theoretical framework surrounding cultural mediation. In addition, politeness distinguishes itself as an intercultural element that can optimize the assimilation of a living language and of a foreign culture. In fact, it is particularly this relation of contiguity that enables us to approach the process of language acquisition by the intervention of one of the main actors involved in this process, the foreign language textbook. Thus, it is our purpose to give an overview of the role of this component in the elaboration of FSP resources. More specifically, we intend to focus on the Manuel de langue française pour les sciences et les métiers de la santé [French for Science and Health care Sector] in order to examine the ways in which politeness is showcased as a vector of instructional materials design and, consequently, of the process of living language teaching/learning.

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