Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Martin Putz
  • Radical cultural difference: anthropology's myth? / Roger M. Keesing
  • Culture, cognition, and grammar / Ronald W. Langacker
  • Areal influence on grammaticalization / Bernd Heine
  • 'Cultural scripts': a new approach to the study of cross-cultural communication / Anna Wierzbicka
  • Language and cross-cultural communication / Ayo Bamgbose
  • Communication disruptions: on benefits and disadvantages of language contact / Konrad Ehlich
  • European languages in African society and culture: a view on cultural authenticity / Alexis B. Tengan.
  • Context of language planning in Africa: an illustration with Nigeria / Efurosibina Adegbija
  • Prognosis for language management in the Third Republic / Conrad M.B. Brann
  • Revalorizing the autochthonous languages of Africa / Vic Webb
  • Cultural variation in the interrelation of speech acts and turn-taking / Michael Clyne
  • Intercultural contact and communication in South-East Papua New Guinea / Tom Dutton
  • Towards and independent and ethnically pure Flanders / Kas Deprez.