Preface / Martin Putz -- Literary texts and intercultural understanding / Lothar Bredella -- Is there a problem in writing and reading texts across languages / Robert B. Kaplan -- Clause ordering as a text-building device in written L2 / Chris Braecke, Ronald Geluykens and Katja Pelsmaekers -- What is behind a word: cultural scripts / Carlos Inchaurralde -- The use of modal auxiliaries in non-native communicative style / Chris Braecke, Hubert Cuyckens and Ronald Geluykens [et al.] -- Negative contextualization: a socio-semiotic approach to foreign language teaching / Anita Fetzer -- Cultural competence and FL comprehension / Colin Simpson -- 'Not everyone's cup of tea'. The problem of interculturality in foreign language teaching illustration / Angela Heidemann -- Sensitising Spanish learners of English to cultural differences: the case of politeness / Rosina Marquez Reiter -- Teaching sociolinguistics: language and some socio-cognitive processes at work / Teaching the emergent culture of an official English in South Africa / Christa van der Walt -- Linguistic and cultural factors that influence readability of mathematics questions / Elise Prins -- Sociocultural constraints in EFL teaching in Cameroon / Augustin Simo Bobda