Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii
4. PART I THINKING IN WORDS
5. 1. Space and Time in Natural Language: Some Parallels between Spatial and Temporal Expressions in English and Russian 17
6. 2. Rendering Metaphor in Reported Speech: Pragmatic Contingencies 39
7. PART II LANGUAGE AND POLITICS
8. 3. Politicians on Drugs: Functions of Political Metaphor across Cultures 59
9. 4. Nationalism and Culture: Some Reflections on the Construction of National Languages 81
10. PART III DIVIDED BY A COMMON LANGUAGE
11. 5. Between Relativism and Truth: Jean Baudrillard, the Sokal Affair and the Use of Scientific Terminology across Cultural Boundaries 99
12. 6. Language, Culture and Gender Identities: Examining Arguments about Marriage 119
13. PART IV: DIFFERENT LANGUAGE, DIFFERENT THOUGHTS
14. 7. Management, Culture and Discourse in International Business 141
15. 8. Intercultural Competence: Theories into Practic 161
16. PART V: BEYOND THE LIMITS OF LANGUAGE
17. 9. Emotion and Labour in Cultural Comparison 181
18. 10. Language about God: Meeting the Other 203
19. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 219
20. INDEX 223