This volume provides a variety of theoretical and analytical perspectives on misunderstanding within different types of spoken interaction/discourse - such as in news media interviews, legal and medical situations, communication by second language learners and between different cultural and social groups, and mistakes in everyday conversation.
1. INTRODUCTION
Juliane House, Gabriele Kasper, & Steven Ross
2. MISUNDERSTANDING IN INTERCULTURAL UNIVERSITY ENCOUNTERS
Juliane House, Hamburg University, Germany
3. PARASITIC FORMS OF MISUNDERSTANDING
Volker Hinnenkamp, Augsburg University, Germany
4. REPETITION AS A SOURCE OF MISCOMMUNICATION IN ORAL PROFICIENCY INTERVIEWS
Steven Ross, Kwansei Gakuin University, Sande-Kobe, Japan & Gabriele Kasper, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, USA
5. MISUNDERSTANDINGS IN POLITICAL INTERVIEWS
Elda Weizman, Bar-Ilan University, Israel & Shoshana Blum-Kulka, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
6. "I COULDN'T FOLLOW HER STORY…": GENDER AND ETHNIC DIFFERENCES IN NEW ZEALAND NARRATIVES
Janet Holmes, Victoria University, New Zealand
7. IDENTITY, ROLE, AND VOICE IN CROSS-CULTURAL (MIS)COMMUNICATION
Claire Kramsch, University of California at Berkeley, USA
8. MISUNDERSTANDING TEACHING AND LEARNING
Joan Turner, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK & Masako Hiraga, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan
9. THE POLITICS OF MISUNDERSTANDING IN THE LEGAL SYSTEM: ABORIGINAL ENGLISH SPEAKERS IN QUEENSLAND
Diana Eades, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, USA
10. DISTRUST: A DETERMINING FACTOR IN THE OUTCOMES OF GATEKEEPING ENCOUNTERS
Julie Kerekes, Stanford University, USA
