Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Philosophical and Linguistic -- Aspects -- What is language: Some preliminary remarks -- Toward a Fregean pragmatics: Voraussetzung, -- Nebengedanke, Andeutung -- Part II: Cognitive Aspects -- The role of explicature in communication and in -- intercultural communication -- Illocutionary constructions: Cognitive motivation -- and linguistic realization -- "A good Arab is not a dead Arab - a racist -- incitement": On the accessibility of negated concepts -- Part III: Intercultural Aspects -- Developing pragmatics interculturally -- Formulaic language in English Lingua Franca -- Language evolution, pragmatic inference, and the -- use of English as a lingua franca -- On non-reductionist intercultural pragmatics and -- methodological procedure -- From downgrading to (over) intensifying: A -- pragmatic study in English and French -- Toward a universal notion of face for a universal -- notion of cooperation -- Backmatter