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To conclude, there is much potential for more and deeper interactions be-
tween psychologists, emphasizing perceptions and motivations, and applied
linguists, attending more to production. There are good examples of this kind
of collaboration. One striking example is the collaboration between Coupland,
Giles and their colleagues. This resulted among other things in their model
(Coupland, Wiemann and Giles 1991) of miscommunication and problematic
talk, which theorizes six causes of miscommunication ranging from inherent
and unrecognized flaws in discourse through to socio-structural power imbal-
ances (also likely to be unrecognized, albeit for different reasons). Models like
this one, and theories like CAT, can provide a basis for understanding intercul-
tural communication in context and as influenced by larger social and psycho-
logical factors. We hope that in another decade the research literature will reflect
this amalgam.

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