9:00 - 9:30

Registration / Information – Room W6B 325

9:30 - 9:45

Official welcome – Room W6B 336

9:45 - 10:45

Keynote address 1 : Anna Wierzbicka – Room W6B 336
Living cross-culturally: insights from cross-cultural literature
by authors of non-Anglo background
Chair: Bert Peeters

10:45 - 11:05

Coffee break – W6 Courtyard

Room W6B 336 - Chair: Cliff Goddard

11:05 - 11:35

Ethnolinguistics 1:
Anna Gladkova
The discourse of duša in Russian language and culture

11:40 - 12:10

Ethnolinguistics 2:
Kyung Joo Yoon
Imposition as an expression of ceng 'affection' in the Korean cultural context

12:15 - 12:45

Ethnolinguistics 3:
Carol Priestley
What's in a name? Cultural values and terms of address and reference in a Papuan language

12:45 - 14:15

Lunch - W6 Courtyard

Room W6B 336 - Chair: Anna Gladkova

14:15 - 14:45

Ethnolinguistics 4:
Patrick Farrell
Closeness and other notions of proximity in English and across cultures

14:50 - 15:20

Ethnolinguistics 5:
Siti Zuraiyni Yassin
Cultural interpretations of pemimpin 'leader' in relation to Malay women's status in society

15:25 - 15:55

Ethnolinguistics 6:
Sailal Arimi
The essence of Indonesian basa-basi (phatic communication)

15:55 - 16:25

Coffee break - W6 Courtyard

Room W6B 336 - Chair: Patrick Farrell

16:25 - 16:55

Ethnolinguistics 7:
Sophia Waters
Rude Australians and mal élevés 'badly brought up' French: the semantics of social interaction concepts from Australian English and French

17:00 - 17:30

Ethnolinguistics 8:
Cliff Goddard
When key terms in global discourse have English-specific meanings: a case study of "security"

17:35 - 18:05

Cross-cultural 1:
Anne Morel-Lab, Michel Wauthion
Intangible at work - Analysis of actual communicative behaviour: A "cross-cultural" approach

9:00 - 9:30

Registration / Information – Room W6B 325

9:30 - 10:30

Keynote address 2: Juliane House – Room W6B 336
Misunderstanding in cross-cultural communication
Chair: Bert Peeters

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break - W6 Courtyard

Room W6B 336
Chair: Yoko Sato

Room W6B 338
Chair: Fabienne Baider

11:00 - 11:30

Cross-cultural 2:
Isao Higashimori
Joke interpretation and cultural differences: a relevance-theoretic account

Pedagogical 1:
Trevor Hay, Yongyang (Catherine) Wang
On speaking terms with elder brother

11:35 - 12:05

Cross-cultural 3:
Wing-sat Chan
The cultural adaptation of Chinese letters for professional communication in the bi-literal trilingual setting of Hong Kong

Pedagogical 2:
Colette Mrowa-Hopkins
Some lessons language students learn: self-discovery through ethnography in LC2 learning

12:10 - 12:40

Cross-cultural 4:
Amr Salah
Cross-cultural misunderstanding and interpersonal clashes: Critical Thinking Issues

Pedagogical 3:
Marika Kalyuga
A cross-cultural approach to teaching grammar

12:40 - 14:15

Lunch - W6 Courtyard

Room W6B 336
Chair: Vittoria Grossi

Room W6B 338
Chair: Colette Mrowa-Hopkins

14:15 - 14:45

Cross-cultural 5:
Isabel Knoerrich
Cultural linguistics applied to modern Hispanoarabistics

Pedagogical 4:
Fabienne Baider, Freiderikos Valetopoulos
Associative semantic networks and intracultural knowledge: from identity to identification

14:50 - 15:20

Cross-cultural 6:
Huamei Han
"Tell me something about yourself": language, culture and job interviews

Pedagogical 5:
Marie-Noëlle Guillot
Interruption in advanced learner French: issues of pragmatic discrimination

15:25 - 15:55

Cross-cultural 7:
Jagdish Kaur
Intercultural communication in a Lingua Franca: some sources of misunderstanding

Pedagogical 6:
Chen Xu
Intercultural communication study in China

15:55 - 16:25

Coffee break - W6 Courtyard

Room W6B 336
Chair: Isabel Knoerrich

Room W6B 338
Chair: Marika Kalyuga

16:25 - 16:55

Pedagogical 7:
Juliana De Nooy
Intercultural lessons from beyond the classroom: student participation in public Internet forums

17:00 - 17:30

Cross-cultural 8:
Vittoria Grossi
Intercultural communication: locating culture in IT workplace communication

9:00 - 9:30

Registration / Information – Room W6B 325

9:30 - 10:30

Keynote address 3: Christine Béal – Room W6B 336
Turn-taking, rituals and requests in French and English: a cross-cultural and intercultural approach
Chair: Bert Peeters

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break - W6 Courtyard

Room W6B 336
Chair: Kimiko Tsukada

Room W6B 338
Chair: John Wakefield

11:00 - 11:30

Cross-cultural 9:
Yoko Sato
Retrospective verbal reports as a way to investigate cross-cultural pragmatic failure

Comparative 1:
Guangwei Hu, Haoxuan Cao
Hedging and boosting in the abstracts of research articles in Chinese- and English-language journals of applied linguistics

11:35 - 12:05

Cross-cultural 10:
Anita Perkins
Linguistic constructions of sociocultural difference: the initial perceptions of Japanese and German students at a New Zealand University

Comparative 2:
Andrey Nefedov, Elizaveta Kotorova
Studying cross-cultural patterns: communicative-pragmatic organisation of utterances

12:10 - 12:40

Cross-cultural 11:
Marilyn Plumlee
Cultural alignment and divergence between Korean and overseas students in Korea

Comparative 3:
Maicol Formentelli
Address strategies in English and Italian academic settings

12:40 - 14:15

Lunch - W6 Courtyard

Room W6B 336
Chair: Anita Perkins

Room W6B 338
Chair: Marilyn Plumlee

14:15 - 14:45

Cross-cultural 12:
Yongheng Cao
A study on pragmatic failure in Chinese EFL learners' cross-cultural communication behaviors

Comparative 4:
Chavalin Svetanant
Fear and respect: overlap of emotional domains across Japanese and Thai

14:50 - 15:20

Cross-cultural 12A:
Huimin Xie
How do Wu Chinese speakers request and give advice?

Comparative 5:
Sandhya Gopalakrishnan, Felicity Cox, Kimiko Tsukada
Perception of Malayalam voicing contrasts by non-native listeners from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds: comparison of Australian English, Hindi and Korean listeners

15:25 - 15:55

Cross-cultural 14:
Ali Reza Atashpanjeh, Mohammad Hossein Keshavarz
Cultural concepts and students' stereotypic beliefs

Comparative 6:
John Wakefield
Linguistic socialization of the young: Cantonese vs. English

15:55 - 16:25

Coffee break - W6 Courtyard

Room W6B 338
Chair: Chavalin Svetanant

16:25 - 16:55

Comparative 7:
Maria Tarantino
Cross-cultural epistemico-pragmatic variance in modal meanings

17:00 - 17:30

Comparative 8:
Christine Béal, Kerry Mullan, Véronique Traverso
Conversational joking during social visits in France and Australia