Culture in communication : analyses of intercultural situations / Aldo Di Luzio, Susanne Gunthner, Franca Orletti.

Papers presented at a workshop Oct. 1994, at the Villa Vigoni in Menaggio (Como, Italy).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Communication, contexts and culture / Hubert Knoblauch -- Contextualization and ideology in intercultural communication / John J. Gumperz -- Asymmetries of knowledge in intercultural communication / Susanne G✹thner and Thomas Luckmann -- Three ways of analysing communication between East and West Germans as intercultural communication / Peter Auer and Friederike Kern -- Cooperation, collaboration and pleasure in work / Jenny Cook-Gumperz -- The making of a witness / Marco Jacquemet -- Intercultural negotiation / Jochen Rehbein -- Constructing misunderstanding as a cultural event / Volker Hinnenkamp -- Inter- and Intra-cultural aspects of dialogue-interpreting / Frank Ernst M赬ler -- The conversational construction of social identity in native/non-native interaction / Franca Orletti -- External appropriations as a strategy for participating in intercultural multi-party conversations / Gabriele Pallotti.