摘要:The 4th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication held at the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (Madrid,Spain) from 15 to 17 November 2010 without any doubt can be called one of the greatest academic events of the last year in this area. The conference was organized by the CLAN (Corpus of Language and Nature) Research Team at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the Mouton de Gruyter Intercultural Pragmatics Journal.