贝茨·霍弗、贾玉新、本名信行、宋莉编著的《跨文化交际--东西方对话/外教社跨文化交际丛书》以“东西方的交汇”为主题，从国际跨文化交际（ICS）创刊以来的论文中精选31篇论文，共分为六大部分。文章作者来自世界各地，讨论了跨文化交际研究的热点议题，反映了这一时期来跨文化交际研究的研究成果。

在多元文化相互交融的21世纪，人们越来越真切地意识到，“跨文化交际”作为构建跨文化社会身份的社会资本，在全球化的宏大叙事中享有独特的话语权，肩负着跨越文化边界、超越自我、超越对立并最终实现和谐人类社会的责任和义务。但作为21世纪全球化的建设者，我们尚未做好充分准备，仍不习惯以全球化为背景，从跨文化的视角来观察、审视、诠释并参与“地球村”概念越加真实的21世纪的社会生活。

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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

 3．Towards a Comprehensive Perspective for Intercultural Communication Study 45

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

 Ron SCOLLON

 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

THE EDUCATIONALComxxi

 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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