Where Angels Fear to Tread: Communication Strategies in an Intercultural Family

The paper discusses the differences in communication strategies used by members of intercultural families, which include: the degree of explicitness that is largely dependent on whether the communicator belongs to a high-context or a low-context culture; the use of understatement or overstatement; the choice of communication style and register of discourse; the form of self-presentation; behaviour in conflict situations; the use of humour and silence. CD 20 I 4 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.orgilicenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).