Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Instead of an introduction: Conceptual issues in analyzing intercultural communication; I. Socio-'political contexts of intercultural communication; Socio-political influences on cross-cultural encounters: Notes towards a framework for the analysis of context; II. Socio-psychological perspectives of intercultural communication; Attribution theory and intercultural communication; Contact between German and Turkish adolescents: A case study; III. Language choice; Language choice in multilingual societies: A Singapore case study; Why speak English?; IV. Discourse processes
  • Keeping the gate: How judgements are made in interethnic interviewsForeigner talk, code switching and the concept of trouble; The man (or woman) in the middle: Discoursal aspects of non-professional interpreting; V. Selected elements of discourse; Multiple formulae. Aspects of Turkish migrant workers' German in intercultural communication; The use of alors in French-Dutch negotiation: A case study; What interactants do with non-talk across cultures; About the Authors; Index of Subjects; Index of Names