Comparing English and French for Business Coursebooks: a Cross-Cultural Discourse Analysis

The focus of this article is to present the discipline Cross-Cultural Discourse Analysis and show how approach was used in analysis business language coursebooks published France United Kingdom. After presenting foundations discipline, two areas comparison will be explored. first area concerns representation professional activity examines work women men represented differently both languages. second explores age characters contributes a specific type woman French coursebooks, while English serves represent an opposition between youth old age. These results are indicative contrastive reveals certain aspects languages that would otherwise go unnoticed single set coursebooks.