Applied Intercultural Linguistics at University of Hildesheim

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Are you are enthusiastic about exploring "foreign" cultures? Are you eager to learn how people from other cultures think, speak and act, and why they do so? Are you interested to study how people exchange ideas and try to understand each other? How the society and culture they grow up in influence their world views and their behaviour and every communicative setting? This degree course offers you a diversified perspective on communication by teaching you concepts and methods from the fields of applied linguistics, intercultural communication and cultural studies that help you understand why people from different cultures act differently and enhance your ability to perform in intercultural settings. It teaches you where knowledge originates, how speech patterns are formed, how they can be analysed and how they differ across cultures and how exactly the media people use to communicate influence the content of the message. By the end of the degree, you will be able to apply different methods to different types of communication and analyse face-to-face communication as well as texts and images and all other forms of cultural representation. In the first year of study, courses will be mainly taught in German and English, but later on, you may expand your communicative competence in other foreign languages such as Russian, Spanish and French. In addition to the linguistic perspective, a few selected courses in information science will offer you insights into how humans process and assess information and how they interact with machines and via machines in complex global information and communication systems. Domains of study: Applied linguistics Linguistic action theories Speech act theory Intercultural Ccommunication Cultural studies Pragmatics Multilingualism and multilingual communication English as a lingua franca (ELF)