The Handbook of Intercultural Discourse and Communication -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Background -- 1: Intercultural Communication: An Overview -- 2: Perspectives on Intercultural Discourse and Communication -- 3: Cultures and Languages in Contact: Towards a Typology -- Part II: Theoretical Perspectives -- 4: Interactional Sociolinguistics: Perspectives on Intercultural Communication -- 5: Ethnography of Speaking -- 6: Critical Approaches to Intercultural Discourse and Communication -- 7: Postmodernism and Intercultural Discourse: World Englishes -- Part III: Interactional Discourse Features -- 8: Turn-Taking and Intercultural Discourse and Communication -- 9: Silence -- 10: Indirectness -- 11: Politeness in Intercultural Discourse and Communication -- Part IV: Intercultural Discourse Sites -- 12: Anglo-Arab Intercultural Communication -- 13: Japan/Anglo-American Cross-Cultural Communication -- 14: "Those Venezuelans are so easy-going!" National Stereotypes and Self-Representations in Discourse about the Other -- 15: "Face," Stereotyping, and Claims of Power: The Greeks and Turks in Interaction -- 16: Intercultural Communication and Vocational Language Learning in South Africa: Law and Healthcare -- 17: Indigenous-Mestizo Interaction in Mexico -- Part V: Interactional Domains -- 18: Translation and Intercultural Communication: Bridges and Barriers -- 19: Cultural Differences in Business Communication -- 20: Intercultural Communication in the Law -- 21: Medicine -- 22: Intercultural Discourse and Communication in Education -- 23: Religion as a Domain of Intercultural Discourse -- Index.