Algerian cultural understanding of the president Obama's speeches
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2015
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university of Oum-El-Bouaghi
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Communication between groups of people may take different types and forms. Whether Direct or indirect, verbal or nonverbal, physical or abstract; communication is a daily necessary act of life. In a multicultural interactive context, there are two major communicative bases. The direct audiovisual and indirect in forms of interaction with others' productions like writings. In the same stream of communicative samples, the American-Algerian communicative attitude has a set of special characteristics. The investigation of such characteristics is the main aim of the conducted research. In a form of an empirical study; relying on the mathematical theory of communication and the knowledge gap theory, the success of an American-Algerian communicative act was tested under multiple possible scenarios. American-Algerian indirect interaction resulted in the use of french linguistic background, while, the direct audiovisual one required more skillfulness in the english language itself. The result is related to the Algerian historical background, linguistic linkage and similarities between french and english, and high technology globalization.
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Communication : communication non verbale