Date/Horaire
23/09/2026
18h00 - 19h30 Europe/Paris
Made in France et Ailleurs Webinar with Mohammad Ehteshamul Haque « Reading Between Cultures: A Lens for Indian, French and South Korean Business Writing »
Business writing carries a cultural signature that most frameworks leave unexamined. When Culture Collides with Language’s reading lens has four moving parts.
- The first is a comparative diagnosis across twelve cultural dimensions, anchored on the writer-responsible and reader-responsible axis, which asks whether the author or the reader carries the burden of clarity.
- The second reads cultural logic: the philosophical drivers beneath a style, its politeness protocols, its rhetorical preferences and its orientation to time.
- The third turns to writing architecture, tracing how those forces settle into a national document form, from the opening sentence and the flow between ideas to tone, evidence and overall structure.
- The fourth calibrates for context, weighing the individual, the organisation, the relationship and the task, since a national pattern rarely survives contact with a specific desk unchanged.
- Two contrasts put the lens to work. Against India, a higher-context French style meets Indian norms of directness and deference, with politeness strategies doing much of the lifting. Against South Korea, two cultures often filed together as ‘high-context’ pull apart: French documents reward conceptual framing and elaboration, while Korean ones lead with hierarchy and face-work. Attendees leave able to place a document’s origin and adapt their own writing in turn.