Beyond Misunderstanding -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Beyond misunderstanding -- Contributions -- References -- Basic assumptions of the linguistic reconstruction of intercultural communication -- Multilingual repertoires and the consequences for linguistic theory -- Introduction -- Translinguistic markers are not abnormalities but rule-governed phenomena -- Rule-governed language choice -- Mixing is rule-governed too -- Stigmata or emblems? -- Multilingualism -- Which status for translinguistic markers? -- Language mixture as stigma -- Exolingual functions of translinguistic markers -- Bilingual speech as an identity marker among multilinguals -- Subcategories of translinguistic markers -- Translinguistic markers as traces of a contact between `codes' or as manifestation of a plural repertoire? -- From on-line mixing to an autonomous variety? -- The case of Chiac in Acadia -- The case of Italoschwyz in Zurich -- What is a `language'? -- Perspectives -- Notes -- References -- The cultural apparatus -- Foreword -- Intercultural communication revisited -- Misunderstanding, cultural filter, action practice -- Evaluation, thought structures, and forms of imagining in conflicts -- Cultural apparatus -- Social groups as action systems -- Ambivalence of negating actions -- Restructuring mental processes -- The emergence of the cultural apparatus in communication -- The apparatus as an aggregate -- Innovations of linguistic action -- Cultural apparatus - Summary of operation -- Conclusions, methodological issues -- Notes -- References -- Notions of perspective and perspectivising in intercultural communication research -- The appeal of the notion of perspective -- A short historical survey -- Studies on perspectivity in intercultural discourse -- Shift of perspective as an empathy strategy.

Taking the Other's Perspective as a motor for the analysis -- Perspectivation as a rhetoric device -- Perspectivation as a strategy for the language mediator -- Perspective as a heuristic axis to analyse intersubjectivity -- Perspectivising as a communicative apparatus -- The contribution of the different notions of perspectivity to intercultural understanding -- An analysis beyond misunderstanding -- Introduction of the analysis -- The constellation of the fragment -- The sequential and action structure of the discourse fragment -- `Rich points' to focus on in intercultural research -- Generalizing, perspectivising and contrasting cultural standards -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Transcription conventions -- Appendix: Transcript -- Interactive analyses of intercultural discourse -- Perspectives in conflict -- Introduction -- German-German data -- Data analysis -- Summary -- Notes -- References -- Beyond `misunderstandings' and `cultural stereotypes' -- Introduction -- Intercultural vs. institutional? A transcript analysis -- The case -- The transcript -- Analysis -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Intercultural communication in institutional counselling sessions -- Introduction -- Research on counselling -- Counselling as an institutional setting -- Counselling in intercultural encounters -- Methodological approach -- Database -- The identification of problems in understanding and miscommunication -- An interactive model of the stages in counselling encounters -- Case studies and examples -- Presentation of problems and formulation of requests -- Processing of proposed solutions and decisions -- Problems in understanding and miscommunication: Potential problem areas -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Ethnic and social groups and their linguistic categorization -- Introduction -- Linguistic ethnic categorizations.

The categorization of social and cultural groups -- Differences between social group categorization and collective reference -- Conclusions -- Transcription notation -- Notes -- References -- ``How are you?'' ``I'm hot'' -- Introduction -- Data -- Small talk -- Characteristics and functions -- Small talk in business settings -- Small talk across cultures -- Small talk sequences in German-British telephone sales -- Conclusion -- Transcription conventions -- Notes -- References -- Where do `we' fit in? -- Introduction -- Background -- Intercultural communication in a virtual community -- The social context of Asatru-E -- Data analysis -- Inclusion and exclusion -- `We' -- Participation and disengagement6 -- Distribution of `we' -- Towards a classification of `we' types -- Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Appendix -- Communicating affect in intercultural lamentations in Caucasian Georgia -- Introduction -- On the communication of grief -- A social constructionist perspective -- Approaches to the analysis of emotive communication -- Elements of Georgian grief semiotics -- West and East Georgian differences in the communication of grief -- Differentiation of styles -- Evaluation of lamentation styles in an ethnography of communication -- Combination of styles: Code switching and style switching -- Mourning for Akaki Danelia, Tbilisi 1997 -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Beyond competence -- Communication and culture -- Power relations and contest -- Demonisation and antagonism -- Consequences and threat -- Condition and reward -- Resistance to discourse of domination -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Authors of Beyond Misunderstanding -- Index -- The Pragmatics & Beyond New Series.