Chapter 1 : Introduction: semantics and pragmatics p. 1-- Chapter 2 : Different cultures, different languages, different speech acts p.25-- Chapter 3 : Cross- cultural pragmatics and different cultural values p.67-- Chapter 4 : Describing conversational routines p. 131-- Chapter 5 : Speech acts and speech genres across languages and cultures p.149-- Chapter 6 : The semantics of illocutionary forces p.197-- Chapter 7 : Italian reduplication: its meaning and its cultural significance p.255-- Chapter 8 : Interjections across cultures p.285-- Chapter 9 : Particles and illocutionary meanings p.341-- Chapter 10: Boys will be boys: even truisms are culture -specific p.391--
