Machine generated contents note: pt. I Background -- 1.Intercultural Communication: An Overview / Ingrid Piller -- 2.Perspectives on Intercultural Discourse and Communication / Leila Monaghan -- 3.Cultures and Languages in Contact: Towards a Typology / John Edwards -- pt. II Theoretical Perspectives -- 4.Interactional Sociolinguistics: Perspectives on Intercultural Communication / Jenny Cook-Gumperz -- 5.Ethnography of Speaking / Scott F. Kiesling -- 6.Critical Approaches to Intercultural Discourse and Communication / Ryuko Kubota -- 7.Postmodernism and Intercultural Discourse: World Englishes / Suresh Canagarajah -- pt. III Interactional Discourse Features -- 8.Turn-Taking and Intercultural Discourse and Communication / Deborah Tannen -- 9.Silence / Ikuko Nakane -- 10.Indirectness / Michael Lempert -- 11.Politeness in Intercultural Discourse and Communication / Janet Holmes -- pt. IV Intercultural Discourse Sites --

12.Anglo---Arab Intercultural Communication / Abdelali Bentahila -- 13.Japan/Anglo-American Cross-Cultural Communication / Kikue Yamamoto -- 14."Those Venezuelans are so easy-going!" National Stereotypes and Self-Representations in Discourse about the Other / Lars Fant -- 15."Face," Stereotyping, and Claims of Power: The Greeks and Turks in Interaction / Arin Bayraktaroglu -- 16.Intercultural Communication and Vocational Language Learning in South Africa: Law and Healthcare / Pamela Maseko --17.Indigenous---Mestizo Interaction in Mexico / Rocio Fuentes -- pt. V Interactional Domains -- 18.Translation and Intercultural Communication: Bridges and Barriers / Eirlys E. Davies -- 19.Cultural Differences in Business Communication / John Hooker -- 20.Intercultural Communication in the Law / Diana Eades -- 21.Medicine / Claudia V. Angelelli -- 22.Intercultural Discourse and Communication in Education / Amanda J. Godley --

23.Religion as a Domain of Intercultural Discourse / Jonathan M. Watt.