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The topic of INTERCULTURAL AWARENESS and PRAGMATICS gained its importance in the past twenty years: globalization and worldwide contacts between countries and individuals evoked the necessity to communicate inthe most successful way. Intercultural communication is derived from the following fundamental definitions: COMMUNICATION is an active relationship established between people through language, and INTERCULTURAL means a communicative relationship between people of different cultures, where culture is a structured manifestation of human behaviour in social life within specific national and local contexts, e.g. political, linguistic, economic, institutional, professional, and pragmatic. Without good knowledge of the target language rules of usage, language learners would have great difficulty in acquiring the appropriate ways to communicate language functions and may fail in interactive communications with the native speakers of the language unless they are well equipped with pragmatic knowledge of the target language. One of the means to assist the development of foreign language students' pragmatic and intercultural awareness is a text (Bardovi-Harlig 2001). [.]

The topic of INTERCULTURAL AWARENESS and PRAGMATICS gained its importance in the past twenty years: globalization and worldwide contacts between countries and individuals evoked the necessity to communicate inthe most successful way. Intercultural communication is derived from the following fundamental definitions: COMMUNICATION is an active relationship established between people through language, and INTERCULTURAL means a communicative relationship between people of different cultures, where culture is a structured manifestation of human behaviour in social life within specific national and local contexts, e.g. political, linguistic, economic, institutional, professional, and pragmatic. Without good knowledge of the target language rules of usage, language learners would have great difficulty in acquiring the appropriate ways to communicate language functions and may fail in interactive communications with the native speakers of the language unless they are well equipped with pragmatic knowledge of the target language. One of the means to assist the development of foreign language students' pragmatic and intercultural awareness is a text (Bardovi-Harlig 2001). [.]