La interacción intercultural: negociación sociodiscursiva entre hablantes de lenguas culturas diferentes.

Abstract

This paper discusses the issue of intercultural interaction and how it is made up of discursive, symbolic and sociocultural elements. In an attempt of getting a better understanding of the exchange, it is first described from its most general conceptualization; and then we make a distinction regarding its features that define it as an intracultural or intercultural interaction. Our approach to the interaction it is from a social event dimension, and not a description of the functioning of its mechanism. Therefore, we also relate it with the negotiation from the perspective of the senses, images and identities. Some sociolinguistic examples illustrate aspects of the intercultural interaction which is currently characterized by the convergence of the use of two or more languages; and two or more speakers’ cultural symbolic systems who participate in it.