Introduction -- Concessivity in scholarly prose: An intercultural study. Zofia Golebiowski, Deakin University -- Intercultural terminology and its political contexts:Towards a Sino-Western glossary. Richard Trappl, University of Vienna -- On some 'dis-ings' leading to a possible 'mis-ing'. Matylda Weidner, University of Antwerp -- The role of cultural scripts and contextualization cuesin intercultural (mis)communication. Anatolij Dorodnych and Anna Kuzio, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland -- Cultural scripts and communication style differences in three Anglo Englishes (English English, American English and Australian English). Cliff Goddard, University of New England, Australia -- When cultural scripts clash:Miscommunication in "multicultural" Australia. Anna Wierzbicka, Australian National University -- Bridging gaps across cultures:The case of glosses in Caramelo, a Chicana novel. Maria Marta Garcia Negroni, CONICET, University of Buenos Aires and Maria Laura Spoturno, CONICET, University de la Plata -- Intercultural miscommunication and the use of 'vague language'. Denise Gassner,Macquarie University, Sydney and University of Fribourg -- (Mis-) communicating Europe? On deficiencies and challenges inpolitical and institutional communication in the European Union. Micha Krzyanowski, University of Lancaster -- Communication gaps in seventeenth century Britain:Explaining legal Scots to English practitioners. Joanna Kopaczyk, Poznan -- From monarch, through traitor, to martyr and saint:Power shift in the trial of King Charles I. Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky, University of Vienna.