ABSTRACT
Intercultural communication as a sub-discipline has a distinct security logic. We discuss the history of cultural pragmatics as one strand of intercultural communication research that contains particularly strong traces of this logic. After reviewing relevant literature, we call attention to the interactional context of intercultural practice as worthy of scholarly attention, and illustrate the security logic with a case study of a Japanese student’s report of his own engagement in intercultural practice. We end with a brief discussion of the complementary relationship between intercultural communication research and securitization scholarship.
