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The present article aims to point out the necessity to raise intercultural awareness and to build intercultural communication competence in Professional Foreign Language Classes. After defining the main concepts involved and having as a starting point G. Hofstede’s cultural dimension’s theory, the article brings forward several proposals of activities and makes reference to certain available and useful resources and methods that could serve the announced objective.

The present article starts from the already well-known relationship between translation studies and pragmatics and aims to offer an analysis of the way in which several instances of irony in John Galsworthy’s novels are translated into Romanian. The paper approaches the phenomenon of irony comprising pragmatic theories such as: irony as substitute of literal meaning, as echoic mention, as pretence or simulation of illocutionary force of speech acts.

The present article aims to offer a theoretical, yet partial, insight into the linguistic analysis of mentalities (the pragmatic and discursive approach), when the given corpus is the literary text and, even more, when we compare literary works of different authors from different cultures and/or ages.