The Pragmatics of International and Intercultural Communication: Selected Papers from the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 1987. Volume 3: The Pragmatics of International and Intercultural Communication

This volume contains a selection of papers from a special session of the International Pragmatics Conference (Antwerp, August 1987) and from the Symposium on Intercultural Communication (Ghent, December 1987). Studying the communicative styles of cultures and social groups, both at the descriptive level and at the level of pragmatic theory construction, should be a target of pragmatics as a discipline. A clear view is needed of the restrictions on adaptability involving potential fields of conflict in intercultural and international communication. As the contributions to this volume demonstrate, very little should be taken for granted in this respect. 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.