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AbstractNegotiation of identities in communication entails affirming the identities we want others to recognize in us and ascription of identities we mutually assign to each other in communication. The study of intercultural communication focuses on cultural identity as the principal identity component that defines intercultural communication. In this article, the assumption that cultural group membership factors determine the context of intercultural communication is questioned. The article examines how intercultural interlocutors negotiate their identities in various intercultural interactions. The aims of the research presented in this paper are: 1) to examine which identities - cultural, personal, or social - intercultural interlocutors activate in intercultural communication; 2) to determine whether interlocutors' intercultural communication is largely influenced by their cultural identities; 3) and to identify situations in which they activate their cultural identities (3). The research data were collected from 263 international students studying at Masaryk University in Brno in the years 2010 - 2016. Although the research results are not conclusive, they indicate that cultural identities predominate in the students' ethnocentric views and that stereotypes constrain the students' cultural identities and affect the negotiation of identities in intercultural communication.

""Table of Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Part 1: Encountering the Otherâ#x80;#x94;Crossing Borders?""; ""Chapter One""; ""Chapter Two""; ""Chapter Three""; ""Chapter Four""; ""Part 2: Perceiving the Northâ#x80;#x94;Issues of Identity and Ways of Thinking""; ""Chapter Five""; ""Chapter Six""; ""Chapter Seven""; ""Chapter Eight""; ""Chapter Nine

Intercultural contacts are very dynamic in the modern world. Intercultural interaction at personal, institutional, and international levels, due to globalization, demographic changes, information technologies development, etc., is intense. The expansion of international relations these days requires developing dialogic skills between various developed cultures, which requires clarification of problems related to intercultural communication. The article analyzes the concepts of intercultural communication in modern society. It also highlights some characteristics, trends, and development in the linguistic space.

"This handbook presents a foundational collection of core theoretical, methodological, and applied works that constitute and illustrate critical intercultural communication studies. With these core pieces in one book, scholars gain a defining assemblage of pieces that define critical intercultural communication from key intercultural communication and critical scholars. Moreover, these essays are bound together in a book structure that scaffolds up from foundation to application and allows for reflection and connection among sections and pieces. Even after ten years, this one-stop defining collection is more appealing than piecing together separate articles over time. No other comprehensive collection of essays defines, delineates, and constitutes critical intercultural communication studies"--

The aim of this paper is to illustrate how intercultural communication is affected by language use in Latvia and to show that in accordance with theories of D.L.Horowitz and P.R.Brass (Horowitz, 1985; Brass, 1991) the question of language is a question of conflict in Latvia. The empirical base for this report is the survey "Towards a civic society" conducted by the Baltic Data House. In the second analysis of empirical data, author is trying to show the correlation between language proficiency, language use and intercultural communication, and the hypothesis of the report is that the question of language is a question of conflict, because the language hierarchy is changing in Latvia.