I-IV -- Preface -- Instead of an introduction: Conceptual issues in analyzing intercultural communication -- Ι. Socio-political contexts of intercultural communication -- Socio-political influences on cross-cultural encounters: Notes towards a framework for the analysis of context -- II. Socio-psychological perspectives of intercultural communication -- Attribution theory and intercultural communication -- Contact between German and Turkish adolescents: A case study -- III. Language choice -- Language choice in multilingual societies: A Singapore case study -- Why speak English? -- IV. Discourse processes -- Keeping the gate: How judgements are made in interethnic interviews -- Foreigner talk, code switching and the concept of trouble -- The man (or woman) in the middle: Discoursal aspects of non-professional interpreting -- V. Selected elements of discourse -- Multiple formulae Aspects of Turkish migrant workers' German in intercultural communication -- The use of alors in French-Dutch negotiations: A case study -- What interactants do with non-talk across cultures -- About the Authors -- Index of subjects -- Index of names