Silence in Intercultural Communication

1. Acknowledgements; 2. Transcription conventions; 3. Chapter 1. Introduction; 4. Chapter 2. A review of silence in intercultural communication; 5. 2.1 Overview; 6. 2.2 Preliminaries: Silence in communication; 7. 2.3 Silence in intercultural communication; 8. 2.4 Silence in multicultural classroom contexts; 9. 2.5 Silence of overseas students from Asia in the Anglo-mainstream classroom; 10. 2.6 Silence in Japanese communication; 11. 2.7 Summary: An overview of silence in intercultural communication; 12. 2.8 Interpreting silence; 13. Chapter 3. The sociocultural context: Silence and talk in Japanese classrooms; 14. 3.1 Japanese high school classroom study; 15. 3.2 Linguistic domain; 16. 3.3. Socio-psychological domain; 17. 3.4 Cognitive domain; 18. 3.5 Summary: Japanese classroom practice and silence; 19. Chapter 4. Perceptions of silence: From a macro-perspective; 20. 4.1 Introduction; 21. 4.2 Linguistic factors contributing to silence; 22. 4.3 Socio-psychological factors contributing to silence: Politeness orientations; 23. 4.4 Cognitive factors contributing to silence; 24. 4.5 Intentional and unintentional silence; 25. 4.6 Summary: Perceptions of silence in intercultural communication; 26. Chapter 5. Performance and perceptions of silence: An empirical view; 27. 5.1 Introduction; 28. 5.2. Methodology of the case studies; 29. 5.3 Talk and silence in the case studies: Comparison of performance and perceptions; 30. 5.4 Linguistic factors contributing to silence; 31. 5.5 Socio-psychological factors contributing to silence; 32. 5.6 Cognitive factors contributing to silence; 33. 5.7. Summary of the chapter; 34. Chapter 6. Re-interpreting silence in intercultural communication; 35. 6.1 Introduction; 36. 6.2 What is 'silence'?; 37. 6.3 The roles of factors affecting silence at different levels of social organisation; 38. 6.4 Rethinking 'the silent East': Perceptions and performance; 39. References; 40. Appendix 1; 41. Appendix 2; 42. Appendix 3; 43. Appendix 4; 44. Appendix 5; 45. Appendix 6; 46. Author index; 47. Subject index