Lecturers:
Sandra Tominac Coslovich and Jana Kegalj
Having many nationalities onboard has become widespread on many ships. This imposes great demands on communication and understanding of differences. Thus, this lecture will try to define the notion of culture and raise the awareness of the importance of cross-cultural competences in the maritime industry and especially onboard vessels. It will also address the danger and necessity of stereotypes and some of the prejudices in the maritime field about different nationalities, illustrated by several contrast-culture scenarios and case studies of life onboard. The lecture will also provide a brief overview of different culture theories and give suggestions of how they can be used as background knowledge in dealing with individuals from different cultures.
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Biography:
Sandra Tominac Coslovich is an associate professor at the Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Maritime Studies, University of Rijeka. She graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy with a degree in English and Croatian language and literature. She received her PhD in 2010 from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb. Since 2002, she has been working at the Faculty of Maritime Studies, University of Rijeka, where she teaches courses on maritime English and multiculturalism and communication on board. Her areas of interest include maritime English, cross-cultural studies in the maritime industry, translation of maritime terminology, discourse analysis and corpus linguistics. Since 2009, she has been a consultant to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) for Maritime English and a member of the Papers’ Committee of the IMO IMLA International Maritime English Conference (IMEC). She is also a member of the Croatian Applied Linguistics Society (HDPL).
Jana Kegalj holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Croatian language and literature and English language and literature and an MSc degree in Translation Studies. She is currently a PhD student of linguistics at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. She has been working as an assistant in the Foreign Languages Department of the Faculty of Maritime Studies in Rijeka since 2016, where she has been teaching maritime English and marine engineering English to undergraduate students. She is also an active translator and court interpreter.
