Chapter 1 Introduction: Towards the Simultaneity of Intercultural Competence

Chapter 2 Meta-pragmatic Awareness and Intercultural Competence: The Role of Reflection and Interpretation in Intercultural Mediation

Chapter 3 Intercultural Competence in Host Students? A Study of Danish Students Facing China at Home

Chapter 4 From ‘Intercultural Speaker’ to ‘Intercultural Reader’: A Proposal to Reconceptualize Intercultural Communicative Competence Through a Focus on Literary Reading

Chapter 5 Competences for Active Communication and Participation in Diverse Societies: Views of Young People in Iceland

Chapter 6 Intercultural Competence and the Promise of Understanding

Chapter 7 Intercultural Polyphonies Against the ‘Death of Multiculturalism’: Concepts, Practices and Dialogues

Chapter 8 Intercultural Competence: Multi-dynamic, Intersubjective, Critical and Interdisciplinary Approaches

Chapter 9 Living Intercultural Lives: Identity Performance and Zones of Interculturality

Chapter 10 An Interactive, Co-constructed Approach to the Development of Intercultural Understanding in Pre-service Language Teachers

Chapter 11 Challenges of Teaching Intercultural Business Communication in Times of Turbulence

Chapter 12 Intercultural Competence: Value Disembedding and Hyper-flexibility