Current Issues in Intercultural Pragmatics

1. Introduction (by Kecskes, Istvan); 2. Part I. The socio-cultural turn in pragmatics; 3. Chapter 1. Determinacy, distance and intensity in intercultural communication: An emancipatory approach (by Crawshaw, Robert); 4. Chapter 2. "Western" Grice?: Lying in a cross-cultural dimension (by Meibauer, Jorg); 5. Part II. Lingua franca communication; 6. Chapter 3. Why is miscommunication more common in everyday life than in lingua franca conversation? (by Mustajoki, Arto); 7. Chapter 4. "Burn the antifa traitors at the stake...": Transnational political cyber-exchanges, proximisation of emotions (by Baider, Fabienne H.); 8. Part III. Business communication; 9. Chapter 5. The interpersonal pragmatics of intercultural financial discourse: A contrastive analysis of European vs. Asian earnings conference calls (by Crawford Camiciottoli, Belinda); 10. Chapter 6. Face-threatening e-mail complaint negotiation in a multilingual business environment: A discursive analysis of refusal and disagreement strategies (by Decock, Sofie); 11. Part IV. Cultural perceptions; 12. Chapter 7. Auto- and hetero-stereotypes in the mutual perception of Germans and Spaniards (by Hass, Jessica); 13. Chapter 8. The interactive (self-)reflexive construction of culture-related key words (by Schroder, Ulrike); 14. Chapter 9. "It's really insulting to say something like that to anyone": An investigation of English and German native speakers' impoliteness perceptions (by Schauer, Gila A.); 15. Part V. Translation; 16. Chapter 10. Identities and impoliteness in translated Harry Potter novels (by Pleyer, Monika); 17. Chapter 11. Presuppositions, paralanguage, visual kinesics: Three culture-pragmatic categories of errors and misunderstanding in translation and interpreting illustrated on the basis of the language pair German/Greek (by Seel, Olaf Immanuel); 18. Part VI. Pragmatic development; 19. Chapter 12. Development of pragmatic routines by Japanese learners in a study abroad context (by Osuka, Naoko); 20. Chapter 13. A cross-sectional study of Syrian EFL learners' pragmatic development: Towards a taxonomy of modification in interlanguage requests (by Ali, Ziyad); 21. Chapter 14. The pragmatic competence of student-teachers of Italian L2 (by Gauci, Phyllisienne); 22. Chapter 15. Adaptive management and bilingual education: A longitudinal corpus-based analysis of pragmatic markers in teacher talk (by Maguire, Laura); 23. Index