Provides a representative picture of the scholarly substance of the successful pragmatics conference held in Antwerp. Volume three combines papers from the "Ghent Symposium on Intercultural Communication", to focus on the special problems involved with intercultural and international communication.

1. Preface; 2. Intercultural and international communication: Introduction (by Blommaert, Jan); 3. How much culture is there in intercultural communication? (by Blommaert, Jan); 4. Accident and method in the study of intercultural communication: Colonial description os Swahili in the former Belgian Congo (by Fabian, Johannes); 5. Understanding in intercultural encounters (by Gumperz, John J.); 6. Talking a person into interethnic distinction: A discourse analytic case study (by Hinnenkamp, Volker); 7. Verbal listening behavior in conversations between Japanese and Americans (by Miller, Laura); 8. Fieldword as a form of intercultural communication (by Pinxten, Rik); 9. Intercultural dimensions of pragmatics in film synchronisation (by Niemeier, Susanne); 10. Objevtivism in pragmatics as a hindrance to intercultural communication (by Schneider, Hans Julius); 11. Foreigner talk revisited: Limits on accommodation to nonfluent speakers (by Smith, Sara W.); 12. A pragmatic perspective on international communication (by Verschueren, Jef); 13. References; 14. Index of names; 15. Index of subjects