1. What is multilingual communication? (by House, Juliane); 2. Toward an agenda for developing multilingual communication with a community base (by Clyne, Michael); 3. Part I: Mediated Multilingual Communication; 4. Ad-hoc-interpreting and the achievement of communicative purposes in doctor-patient-communication (by Buhrig, Kristin); 5. The interaction of spokenness and writtenness in audience design (by Baumgarten, Nicole); 6. Connectivity in translation: Transitions from orality to literacy (by Buhrig, Kristin); 7. Genre-mixing in business communication (by Bottger, Claudia); 8. Part II: Code-Switching; 9. Strategic code-switching in New Zealand workplaces: Scaffolding, solidarity and identity construction (by Holmes, Janet); 10. Code-switching and world-switching in foreign language classroom discourse (by Edmondson, Willis J.); 11. The neurobiology of code-switching: Inter-sentential code-switching in an fMRI-study (by Franceschini, Rita); 12. Part III: Rapport and Politeness; 13. Rapport management problems in Chinese-British business interactions: A case study (by Spencer-Oatey, Helen); 14. Introductions: Being polite in multilingual settings (by Fienemann, Jutta); 15. Part IV: Grammar and Discourse in a Contrastive Perspective; 16. Modal expressions in Japanese and German planning discourse (by Kameyama, Shinichi); 17. A comparative analysis of Japanese and German complement constructions with matrix verbs of thinking and believing: "to omou" and "ich glaub(e)" (by Hohenstein, Christiane); 18. Author Index; 19. Subject Index

Multilingual Communication is a thought provoking and stimulating volume that not only indicates the vastness of the field, but also offers an in-depth view on diverse aspects of multilingual communication. In its complexity it reaches out to a wide target audience from the fields of multilingualism, language contact, translation studies, pragmatics, and discourse analysis.