translate English to French: The relationship with language teaching is close, however: many areas of misunderstanding between cultures may be the result of lack of equivalence between words or meanings or, on another level, of differences in communicative behaviour (saying goodbye, making excuses, refusing, expressing disagreement, etc.). Developing pluricultural awareness also has linguistic dimensions, both cognitive and affective; it therefore has the function of managing the cultural misunderstandings which may result from lack of linguistic understanding, lack of mutual knowledge or difficulties accepting other ways of behaving or doing things as a result of ethnocentric assessments.
La proximité avec les enseignements langagiers est cependant forte : bien des malentendus d’une culture à l’autre peuvent tenir à la non équivalence entre des mots ou entre des significations ou encore, sur un autre plan, à des différences dans les comportements communicationnels (prendre congé, s’excuser, refuser, exprimer son désaccord…). La sensibilisation d’orientation pluriculturelle présente ainsi des dimensions linguistiques, tout autant que cognitives et affectives.