Foreword

Welcome to issue 2 of Cultus, the Journal of Intercultural Mediation and Communication. As readers will notice, in comparison with the first issue, whose main focus was on “Translation at Work”, this issue is addressed to a wider group of (culturally interested) linguists and practitioners as it deals with two important aspects in the field of intercultural communication: Training and Competence.
In line with the purpose of the journal to explore the challenging dialogue between languages and cultures, this volume includes an interview between Delia Chiaro and Geert Hofstede who have kindly accepted to contribute to this interesting and stimulating topic.
We would also like to thank the members of our editorial board who have all acted as referees for the several papers submitted to our journal, and we would also like to express our gratitude to those colleagues not on the editorial board who also kindly accepted to referee papers submitted for this issue.

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Table of contents

Introduction
David Katan, Elena Manca and Cinzia Spinzi

A Kuhnian Revolution in Cross-cultural Research:
Hofstede on Hofstede           
Geert Hofstede is interviewed by Delia Chiaro

Cross-cultural Accommodation through a Transformation
of consciousness
Patrick Boylan

Being International: what do international managers and
professionals really think is important - and do the experts agree?      
David Trickey, Nigel Ewington and Richard Lowe

Direction of mobility and its implications for the U-curve theory       
Inmaculada Soriano Garcia

Exploring cultural knowings in language learning:
the case of Turkish mobility students
Anna Franca Plastina

Intercultural mediation in the mono-lingual, mono-cultural
foreign language classroom: a case study in Japan
Stephanie Houghton