Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Contact and Conflict in English Studies (Sabine Coelsch-Foisner and Herbert Schendl) -- The Expression of Societal and Cultural Conflict in Language (Gabriella Mazzon) -- Māori English on the Background of Cultural and Linguistic Contact in Aotearoa - New Zealand (Alexander Onysko) -- Research Perspectives on English as a Lingua Franca (Barbara Seidlhofer/Nora Dorn/Claudio Schekulin and Anita Santner-Wolfartsberger) -- Language Contact, Culture Contact and Intergenerational Conflict (Eva Duran Eppler) -- Hip Hop Discourse: Identity Formation and Tirolean Youth (Julia Averill) -- 'There is no method …'? Contact and Conflict in Interdisciplinary Studies (David Fuller) -- The Two Cultures Revisited: Strategies in Science Drama, with an exemplary reading of Caryl Churchill's A Number (2002) and Elfriede Jelinek's Kein Licht (2011/12) (Sabine Coelsch-Foisner and Christopher Herzog) -- Evil Encountered? - Childhood, Violence and Innocence in British Crime Fiction (Dorothea Flothow) -- Failure, Farce, and Futile Rage: Cultural Criticism and the Crisis of 'High Art' in Thomas Bernhard and William Gaddis (Matthias Mösch) -- Notes on Contributors.