Dialogue and culture

1. Introduction; 2. Part I. Language, biology and culture: The crucial debate; 3. Minds in Uniform: How generative linguistics regiments culture and why it shouldn't (by Sampson, Geoffrey); 4. The sociobiology of language (by Weigand, Edda); 5. Part II. Theoretical positions; 6. Some general thoughts about linguistic typology and dialogue linguistics (by Bisang, Walter); 7. Intercultural dialogue and academic discourse (by Cmejrkova, Svetla); 8. The speech act of refusals within the minimal action game: A comparative study of German and Japanese (by Grein, Marion); 9. Gestural regulators in French, Japanese and American English dialogues (by Nash, Caroline E.); 10. Quantity scales towards culture-specific profiles of discourse norms (by Weizman, Elda); 11. Part III. Empirically oriented studies of the 'mixed game': Specific action games, politeness and selected verbal means of communication; 12. Dialogue interpreting as intercultural mediation: An analysis in health care multicultural settings (by Baraldi, Claudio); 13. Cultural differences in the speech act of greeting (by Feller, Sebastian); 14. Refusals and politeness in directive action games: Cultural differences between Korean and German (by Cho, Yongkil); 15. How diplomatic can a language be? The unwritten rules in a language: An analysis of spoken Sinhala (by Premawardhena, Neelakshi Chandrasena); 16. Cultural values and their hierarchies in everyday discourse (by Shilikhina, Ksenia); 17. Cultural and contextual constraints in communication (by Walrod, Michael R.); 18. General index; 19. List of contributors