THE PRAGMATICS OF INTERCULTURAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Intelcultural and international communication: Introduction -- 1. Universality, human variability, and individuality: How to define a field -- 2. Human variability and language -- 3. Human variability and communicative style -- 4. Fields of application for pragmatic research -- How much culture is there in intercultural communication? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The concept of culture: How cultural is the language user? -- 2.1 What happened with Lumumba? -- 2.2 From accounts to theories, or from problems to solutions -- 2.3 Internationalism and a differentiated view of culture -- 2.4 Towards a theoretical synthesis -- 3. How much culture is there in linguistics? -- 4. Conclusion -- NOTES -- Accidentand method in the study of intercultural communication: Colonial description of Swahili in the former Belgian Congo -- 1. Introduction -- 2. About method -- 3. Point of departure: Serendipity or the significance of the insignificant -- 4. Terms, lists, tables: Cognition and communication -- 5. From product to process: Features of text and structures of communication -- NOTES -- Understanding in Intercultural Encounters -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and method -- 3. Analysis of neighborhood center encounters -- 4. Analysis of Asian Resource Center encounters -- 5. Comparative analysis -- 6. Cultural differences and life chances -- The Job interview -- 7. Practical Applications -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Talking a person into interethnic distinction: a discourse analytic case study -- 1. Contextualization -- 2. Pretexts to contexts -- 3. Method -- 4. The case -- Original German transcript "Türkischmann Du?'' -- English translation: -- 5. Interculturai conversion techniques.

6. Intercultural repair resources -- 7. The unequal accessibility of symbolic goods -- 8. The incorporation of the ethnic order -- 9. Conclusions -- NOTES -- Verbal listening behavior in conversations between Japanese and Americans -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Method -- 3. Listening styles for Americans and Japanese -- 4. Listening in interethnic interactions -- NOTES -- Fieldwork as a form of intercultural communication -- 1. Interaction and communication in the field -- 2. Interviewing in the field: What is happening? -- 3. Conversation in the field: What is "information"? -- 4. Conclusion -- Intercultural dimensions of pragmatics in fílm synchronisation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A semiotic framework for the evaluation of film synchronisation -- 2.1 Semiotic categories in sign systems -- 2.2 Application of semiotic categories to film synchronisation -- 3. Analysis of cultural mistranslation -- 3.1 The geographical context -- 3.2 The historical context -- 3.3 Sociocultural context -- 3.4 Proper names and popular traditions -- 4. Conclusions -- Objectivism in pragmatics as a hindrance to intercultural communication -- Foreigner talk revisited: Limits on accommodation to nonfluent speakers -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Method -- 2.1 Subjects -- 2.2 Procedure -- 2.3 Scoring procedure -- 3. Results -- 4. Discussion -- 4.1 Interpretation of group comparisons -- 4.2 Analysis of failures of accommodation -- 4.3 Pragmatic and cognitive bases for counter-accommodating behaviors -- NOTE -- A pragmatic perspective on international communication -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A pragmatic perspective -- 3. Topic and method of description -- 4. A challenge from Moscow -- 4.1 Some preliminaries -- 4.2 Fragments of a shared world view -- 4.3 Meant but not said -- 4.4 Messages sent and possibly received -- 4.5 Informational content -- 5. Further perspectives -- NOTES -- References.

Index of names -- Index of subjects -- The series Pragmatics & Beyond New Series.