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‘Time’ in French Cultural Education
Cross-Cultural Studies
2017,
46(), pp.465-495
DOI : 10.21049/ccs.2017.46..465
Publisher : Center for Cross Culture Studies
Research Area : Literature
DOI : 10.21049/ccs.2017.46..465
Publisher : Center for Cross Culture Studies
Research Area : Literature
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The purpose of this study is to verify whether the concept of time conveys meanings similar to nonverbal communicative elements in foreign language education. This study surveys cultural traits of time from the French cultural education perspective. Anthropologist Edward T. Hall points out that each cultural community has developed a different perception of time and experience, and that time conveys the meaningful message nonverbally similar to the nonverbal elements such as space, gesture, eye movement, and facial expression. I investigated the time experiences of a drinking party in France and in Korea, from a cultural relativistic point of view. The subject of a drinking party was chosen on the ground that a drinking party is highly related to most people’s daily lives and it also indicates how they have a relationship with others. I sought a new direction in foreign language cultural education by analyzing how cultural differences between the two communities, especially the relationships between individuals and organisations, ways to separate leisure and labor, and the nonverbal elements, are presented in the two drinking parties.
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