An Intercultural Perspective on the Formative Discourse Concerning Time for Romanians and Russians

The present research is confined to the activity of developing a set of materials (curriculum, teacher’s guide, course support notes) for the Intercultural Communication course, intended for students and lecturers of the Faculty of Letters (specialties in the field of Education and Philology). It has already become axiomatic that in language learning not only linguistic competence is essential, but also the communicative and intercultural one, since language is closely connected to the people’s mind, culture, worldview etc. We have proved this by analyzing one of the cultural dimensions revealed by the American researcher Hoftede Geert – the temporal orientation, since time is one of the main systems of organizing life.