Intercultural dialogue in practice. Managing value judgement through foreign language education

摘要

'Dialogos' is a Greek word widely mistranslated and wrongly understood because of a confusion between 'dyo' et 'dia' It does not mean a conversation between two people or two groups but an acceptance, by two participants or more, that they will compare and contrast their respective arguments to the very end. Dialogue is accordingly a perilous exercise, for it implies a risk that either participant may find his or her argument transformed, and thus their very identity put to the test. The prefix 'dia' is equivalent to the Latin 'trans' connoting a considerable shift in space, time, substance and thought. Stenou (2005, p. 125) as quoted in Houghton (2012, pp. 149-150)