Foreword

OVERVIEW:PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES

1.The Future of Cross Cultural Communication：Perspective of 20 years of the IAICS

2.China's Intercultural Communication Studies：Its Current status and problems

THEORY

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4.Discourse Identity，Social Identity，and Confusion in Intercultural Communication

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5.The Framework of Cultural Space

6.Sociolinguistic Approach to Intercultural Communication

7.Cultural Identification，Cultural Identity and Communication

8.Hierarchical Manifestation in Intercultural Communication

9.Intercultural Communication and Global Democracy：A De-weyan perspective

ETHNO-RELATIvnlY AND MULTICuLTuRALISM

10.On the Multiculturalism of Asian Englishes

11.0n Chinese Indirectness：A multi.dimensional exploration

12.Changes in the Cultural Arguments of Chinese Political Leaders

13.Politeness Phenomena in Japanese Intercultural Business Communication

14.Reconstructing Eastern Paradigms of Discourse Studies

15.A Contrastive Study of Requests in Chinese and American Cultures

INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCIES

16.Intercultural Nonverbal Communication(In)competence

17.When Shyness Is Not Incompetence：A case of Thai communication competence

18.A Contrastive Analysis of Chinese and American Views about Silence and Debate

19.Understanding Strategic Competence for Intercultural Communication

20.Multimodal Manifestation of Conceptual Metaphors in Multimedia Communication

21.Intercultural Communication Between Japanese and Thais Through Discrepancies in Images

MANAGEMENT OF CONFLICT

22.Analyzing an Intercultural Conflict Case Study：Application of a social ecological perspective

23.Intercultural Sensitivity and Conflict Management Styles in Cross. Cultural Organizational Situations

24.Dealing with Chinese Negotiating Partners：A cross。cultural CO-operation strategy

25.How to Avoid Language Conflict in Europe in the Third Millennium

26.Reporting on Sino.Japan Conflicts in The New York Times：A

critical discourse analysis

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27.Intercultural Dialogicality Between LCl and LC2 in the EFL/ESL Classroom

28.Covert Culture in the Foreign Language Classroom：Confronting contrast in target and base mindsets

29.An Analysis of Language Use and Topic Management in Business Decision-making Meeting

30.Do They Tell Stories Differently?：Discourse marker use by Chinese native speakers and nonnative speakers

31.Intercultural Communication Education and Foreign Language

Education：Shared precedents，procedures，and prospects

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