Examining the Role of Pragmatics in Cross-Cultural Communities

Abstract

This dissertation examines the role of pragmatics in the cross-cultural communication at Mathematics and Electrical Engineering Department at Ibn Khaldoun University. It seeks to determine whether there both West Afriacn and Algerian students face difficulties in communication to each other .This study was predicated on two assumptions. First, We hypothesis that both Algerian and West African students at department of Mathematics and Electrical Engineering at Ibn Khaldoun University face difficulties in communicating to each other.Second, Algerian students at department of Mathematics and Electrical Engineering at Ibn Khaldoun University use certain facial expressions to succeed in the communicating with the west African students .The results of this research approve our hypotheses