Table of contents
List of contributorsvii
Forewordix
Part I: Theoretical orientations: The interaction of language and culture
Radical cultural difference: Anthropology's myth?
Culture, cognition, and grammar
Areal influence on grammaticalization
"Cultural scripts": A new approach to the study of cross-cultural communication
Language and cross-cultural communication
Communication disruptions: On benefits and disadvantages of language contact
Part II: Case studies: The manipulation of language in intercultural contact
European languages in African society and culture: A view on cultural authenticity
The context of language planning in Africa: An illustration with Nigeria
A prognosis for language management in the Third Republic
Revalorizing the autochthonous languages of Africa
Cultural variation in the interrelation of speech acts and turn-talking
Intercultural contact and communication in South-East Papua New Guinea
Towards an independent and ethnically pure Flanders
Subject index
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