INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION: A READER, International Edition explores how
communication values and styles can vary across cultures and communities, providing a
thorough introduction to current theory while outlining practical strategies for more
effective, culturally aware communication.
INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION: A READER conveys the idea that successful
intercultural communication is a matter of highest importance if humankind and society are
to survive.
This broad-based and highly engaging reader, compiled by the authors who
defined the course, includes a balanced selection of articles--some commissioned solely
for this text--that discusses the classic ideas that laid the groundwork for this field,
as well as the latest research and ideas. Material is presented in a context that allows
students to read, understand, and then apply course concepts to their lives.
Table of Contents
Preface.
1. APPROACHES TO INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION.
Understanding Intercultural Communication: Some Working Principles - Edwin R. McDaniel,
Larry A. Samovar and Richard E. Porter. Dimensionalizing Cultures: The Hofstede Model In
Context - Geert Hofstede. Culture and Conflict - Harry C. Triandis. Intercultural
Communication in a Globalized World - Bernard Saint-Jacques. Worldview in Intercultural
Communication: A Religio-Cosmological Approach - Satoshi Ishii, Donald Klopf, and Peggy
Cooke. Harmony without Uniformity: An Asiacentric Worldview and its Communicative
Implications. - Yoshitaka Miike.
2. CULTURAL IDENTITY: ISSUES OF BELONGING.
Globalization and Intercultural Personhood - Young Yun Kim. An Alternative View of
Identity - Guo-Ming Chen. Living within Whiteness: A Project Aimed at Undermining Racism -
John T. Warren. American Indian Identity: Communicating with Indian-ness - Steven B.
Pratt, Merry C. Pratt, and Lynda D. Dixon. We don't talk right. You ask him. - Joan Wynne.
International Marriages in Japan: Cultural Conflict and Harmony - Steven E. Quasha and
FumikoTsukada.
3. INTERNATIONAL CULTURES: UNDERSTANDING DIVERSITY.
The Spitituality of "Being" Grace and Tao and Awaken in Intercultural
Communication - Mary Fong. Chimerica: United States-China Communication for the
Twenty-first Century - Wenshan Jia, Dexin Tian, and Xuanzi B. Jia. Communication with
Indians.- Rajesh Kumar and Anand Kumar Sethi. When Face-to-Face Won't Work: Use of
Informal Intermediaries to Communicate Interpersonally in Sub-Saharan Africa - Ann Neville
Miller. Russian Cultural Values and Communication Styles - Mira Bergelson. LadylikeMen and
Guyland: Cross-Cultural Accomplishments of Masculinities - Justin Charlebois.
4. CO-CULTURES: LIVING IN TWO CULTURES.
Unum and Pluribus - Young Yun Kim. Beyond Tolerance: Action Oriented-Interfaith Dialogue
with Muslim Communities - Polly Begley. Americans in Black and Brown: Exploring Sources of
Intercultural Tensions Between Blacks and Latinos. - Peter Nwosu. Which is My Good Leg? -
Dawn Braithwaite and Charles Braithwaite. In Plain Sight: Gay and Lesbian Communication
and Culture - William F. Eadie.
5. INTERCULTURAL MESSAGES: VERBAL AND NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION.
The Nexus of Language, Communication, and Culture - Mary Fong. Dialogue, Argument, and
Cultural Communication Codes Between Israeli-Jews and Palestinians - Donald G. Ellis and
Ifat Maoz. Public Speaking Patterns in Kenya - Ann Neville Miller. Mexican Dichos: Lessons
Through Language - Carolyn Roy. The Basis of Cultural Differences in Nonverbal
Communication - Peter A. Andersen. Monochronic and Polychronic Time - Edward T. Hall.
Mexicans and Americans: A Different Sense of Space - Ned Crouch.
6. CULTURAL CONTEXTS: THE INFLUENCE OF SETTING.
Japanese Style of Decision Making in Business Organizations - Kazuo Nishiyama. Comparing
and Contrasting Germanand American Business Cultures - Michael Hinner. The Problem of
Globalization: Jamaican Managers at the Intersection of Past and Present Cultural
Challenges - Maurice Hall. Health Journeys: Intersections Between Ancient Healing and
Modern Medicine - Polly A. Begley and Debbie A. Ockey. Reflections on a Conversation with
a Curandera - Roxanne Amerson. Culture and Communication in the Classroom - Geneva Gay.
Enculturation of Values in the Educational Setting: Japanese Group Orientation - Edwin R.
McDaniel and Eriko Katsumata. Intercultural Communication and the Global Classroom -
Charles Braithwaite.
7. COMMUNICATING INTERCULTURALLY: BECOMING COMPETENT.
Axioms for a Theory of Intercultural Communication Competence - Brian H. Spitzberg.
Confucian Perspectives of Communication Competence - Xiasosui Xiao and Guo-Ming Chen.
Harmony, Conflict and the Process of Argument in Chinese societies - Michael David Hazen
and Rui Shi. The Social Construction of Demeanor Through Deference Rituals - Justin
Charlebois. Discriminating Attitudes Toward Speech - Aaron Castelan Cargile.
8. ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE.
A Communicative Approach to Intercultural Dialogue on Ethics - Richard J. Evanoff.
Worldview: The Ethical Dimension - Ninian Smart. Cultural Diversity: A World View - Thomas
Sowell. The Limits of Cultural Diversity - Harlan Cleveland.
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