New Gambits
摘要
This concluding chapter synthesises the book’s core intervention: the practice of ‘intercultural acrobatics’. It argues that the rigid, often hollow vocabulary dominating ICER fails to capture the dynamic, disorienting reality of intercultural encounters. In response, the book’s proposed neologisms are presented not as permanent solutions but as provisional ‘gambits’, i.e., calculated, risky moves designed to disrupt stagnant discourse. The chapter asserts that everyday communication, dominant ideologies and academic study of inter’ality must be analysed as interconnected. This chapter thus frames this linguistic experimentation as an ethical and creative imperative, a way to ‘language’ the field with more agility and humility, thereby fostering potential liberation and decolonisation in both thought and practice.