Höflichkeit und F a c e in interkultureller Kommunikation im DaF-Unterricht : Politeness and face in intercultural communication in GFL teaching

Abstract

When introducing pragmatic aspects of the German language, such as politeness, face and conversational patterns in the context of their cultural background, GFL textbooks still tend to reduce the linguistic part to routine formulas and speech acts. The present article shows how a bridge can be built between routinized and (self-)reflexive learning and thus also between language teaching and academic knowledge transfer. This can be achieved by means of a module which has been employed successfully in GFL teaching at a Brazilian university. It reveals how the integration of conversational sequences of intercultural communication between Germans and Brazilians can promote (a) general linguistic-pragmatic, (b) specific intercultural and (c) cognitive-reflexive competencies.