Masterclass – Master’s in Specialized Translation and Interpreting
27 March 2017 | 18.30 | Lab. 3, ISCAP
Masterclass – Master in Intercultural Studies for Business
31 March 2017 | 18.30 | Room 005, ISCAP
“Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) in English
for Professional Purposes (applied to written texts)”
ABSTRACT
This worshop aims at offering Portuguese students of Higher Education the opportunity to get to grips with the linguistic rituals of behaviour, rhetorical conventions and communication strategies in English for professional purposes, and use this understanding to communicate with British people effectively and appropriately in the intercultural professional scenario. The workshop will be divided into two main parts: (a) exploring the way universal value dimensions have been negotiated into differing culture-specific value orientations in Portuguese and British English; and (b) acquiring intercultural communicative competence (ICC) in English for professional purposes.
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Dr. Francisco Miguel Ivorra Pérez is currently a lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Valencia (Spain). He holds a Ph.D. in English Studies, and his thesis dealt with the influence of cultural values on English and Spanish business websites. His main areas of research are discourse analysis, intercultural communication and English and Spanish for academic and professional purposes. He has published articles in international journals like Atlantis, Journal of Intercultural Communication, Clina, Miscelanea Journal of English and American Studies as well as book chapters in different books such as A Multidisciplinary Approach to Service Encounters: Brill or Multiple Voices in Academic and Professional Discourse: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. He also the author of the book entitled La Comunicación intercultural y el discurso de los negocios, edited by the University of Alicante (Spain). Dr. Francisco Miguel Ivorra is also a member of the Interuniversity Institute of Applied Modern Languages (IULMA) at the University of Valencia (Spain) and Head of the research group “SILVA” (Group of Support for Investigation in Language Variation Analysis).