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Philosophical Hermeneutics: A Path to Intercultural Understanding Through Translation Panahbar, Ehsan; Dabaghi, Azizollah
Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 1 (2012): January 2012
Publisher : Richtmann Publishing

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In philosophical hermeneutics, the thoughts of Gadamer and Ricoeur about conditions of attaining to understandingare of utmost interest. Gadamer, by proposing "fusion of horizons" and considering the prejudices of interpreter as basic factorsof interpreting and understanding of all phenomena, and Ricoeur, by believing that we as human being only can understand theSelf through understanding Other, have paved the paths to attaining intercultural understanding. This study tried to investigatethe fundamental role of translation in the intercultural understanding from the window of philosophical hermeneutics, becauseaccording to Gadamer all understandings occur in language and this asserts that translation, as a linguistic and culturalphenomenon, can, after catastrophe of Babel, take the hearts and tongues of scattered human beings close to each other andas Ricoeur believes, humanity enjoys equivalence in spite of alterity.
Telephone Conversation Opening in Iran: Males and Females in Focus Dabaghi, Azizollah; Khadem, Akram
Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 3 (2012): September 2012
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This paper aims to compare the structure of telephone conversation opening in Iran between males and females withparticular attention to the “how are you” sequence. Natural data are 30 recorded telephone conversations by both males and females indifferent age groups. The data are transcribed for analysis to see how these two groups perform their telephone conversation openings.Due to the differences in their nature, there seems some considerable differences will be observed between the males and the femalesnot only in the “how are you” section but also in the selection of words.