Introduction and overview, Section I: Foundations of language and intercultural communication studies, A global look at the history and development of language and intercultural communication studies, Culture, communication, context, and power, Language, identity, and intercultural communication, Conceptualizing intercultural (communicative) competence and intercultural citizenship, Reflexivity and criticality in language and intercultural communication research and practice, Section II: Core Themes and issues, Language, culture, and communication , Linguaculture and transnationality: the cultural dimensions of language, Intercultural rhetoric and intercultural communication, Interculturality and intercultural pragmatics, Speech acts, facework, and politeness: sociopragmatics, facework, and intercultural relationship-building, Translation, interpreting, and intercultural communication, Language, identity, and intercultural communication, Constructing the cultural Other: prejudice and stereotyping, Intercultural contact, hybridity, and third space, Gender, language, identity, and intercultural communication, Translanguaging, identity, and migration, Language learning, identity, and intercultural communication in contexts of conflict and insecurity, Language, intercultural (communicative) competence, and intercultural citizenship, Language: an essential component of intercultural communicative competence, From native speaker to intercultural speaker and beyond: intercultural (communicative) competence in foreign language education, World Englishes and intercultural communication, Language education and global citizenship: decolonial and posthuman perspectives through pedagogies of discomfort , Section III: Theory into practice: Towards intercultural (communicative) competence and citizenship, Intercultural second language teacher education, Intercultural responsibility: transnational research and global critical citizenship, Intercultural communicative competence development through telecollaboration and virtual exchange, Social justice, diversity, and intercultural-global citizenship education in the global context, Assessing intercultural language learning, Section IV: Language and intercultural communication in context, Intercultural language teaching and learning in classroom practice, Intercultural communication in the multicultural classroom, The language and intercultural dimension of education abroad, Intercultural business education: the role of critical theory and experiential learning, Intercultural communication in professional and workplace settings, Linguistically and culturally diverse project partnerships and teams, Intercultural communication in health care settings, Intercultural communication in legal contexts, Intercultural communication in tourism, Section V: New Debates and future directions, A global agenda for ethical language and intercultural communication research and practice, Index.