Intercultural Miscommunication Past and Present

Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky is professor emerita at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland). She teaches at University of Vienna and Academy of Management in Warsaw, where she holds a professorial position. Her research interests include synchronic and diachronic pragmatics, intercultural communication, text linguistics, and discourse analysis.

Contents: Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky: Introduction - Zofia Golebiowski: Concessivity in scholarly prose: An intercultural study - Richard Trappl: Intercultural terminology and its political contexts: Towards a Sino-Western glossary - Matylda Weidner: On some 'dis-ings' leading to a possible 'mis-ing' - Anatolij Dorodnych/Anna Kuzio: The role of cultural scripts and contextualization cues in intercultural (mis)communication - Cliff Goddard: Cultural scripts and communication style differences in three Anglo Englishes (English English, American English and Australian English) - Anna Wierzbicka: When cultural scripts clash: Miscommunication in «multicultural» Australia - María Marta García Negroni/María Laura Spoturno: Bridging gaps across cultures: The case of glosses in Caramelo, a Chicana novel - Denise Gassner: Intercultural miscommunication and the use of 'vague language' - Michal Krzyzanowski: (Mis-)communicating Europe? On deficiencies and challenges in political and institutional communication in the European Union - Joanna Kopaczyk: Communication gaps in seventeenth century Britain: Explaining legal Scots to English practitioners - Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky: From monarch, through traitor, to martyr and saint: Power shift in the trial of King Charles I.