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The goal of the journal is to promote the understanding of intercultural competence by focusing on theoretical and applied pragmatics research that involves more than one language and culture or varieties of one language. Intercultural Pragmatics promotes a two-tier ‘interculturality’ within the discipline and in pragmatic research. The journal encourages interaction between scholars representing different subfields of pragmatics including the linguistic, cognitive, social, and interlanguage paradigms. In addition to numerous articles that focus on the intercultural perspective in pragmatics research and are published in the paper section, our “Forum” includes interviews, debates, rebuttals, and research statements from leading theoreticians and researchers. The intercultural perspective is relevant not only to each line of research within pragmatics but also extends to several other disciplines such as anthropology, theoretical and applied linguistics, psychology, communication, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, and bi- and multilingualism. 

The journal makes a special effort to cross disciplinary boundaries. It intends to be a forum for researchers who are looking for new tools and methods to investigate human languages and communication to better understand the role of pragmatic competence in language acquisition and the process of communication. The editors, editorial board members, and the publisher are committed to producing a journal that is provocative and open to new ideas.

We are especially interested in featuring articles and research papers that

• explore the implications of pragmatics research for theoretical developments and practical applications in the fields of language acquisition and intercultural communication,
• analyze the ways in which language is both shaped by culture and is the medium through which culture is created,
• address major issues of pragmatics research such as communicative principles, explicatures, implicatures, role of context, semantics-pragmatics interface, and so forth,
• focus on the use of varieties of one language, including the investigation of lingua franca from a pragmatic perspective,
• discuss language use and gender differences in the context of cross-cultural interaction,
• describe the meaning and implications of interculturality and analyze the reasons for cross-cultural misunderstandings,
• study the nature of interaction between native speakers and non-native speakers and bi- and multilinguals,
• investigate the effect of dual language and multilingual systems on the development and use of pragmatic skills,
• examine the teachability and learnability of pragmatic skills in instructional environments.

Intercultural Pragmatics is a peer-reviewed journal of international scope.