The Global intercultural Communication Reader

by Asante; Molefi Kete

• ISBN13: 9780415958134
• ISBN10: 041595813X
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-10-16
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The field of intercultural communication seeks to understand the process of communicating across cultural boundaries with an aim toward promoting positive relations between different cultures and nations. The Global Intercultural Communication Reader is the first comprehensive anthology to take a distinctly non-Eurocentric approach to analyzing and appreciating the diverse ways of communicating in different cultures, and incorporates African and Asian as well as Western perspectives. The volume?s international scope aims to expand and enlarge the field by promoting greater engagement with the closely related field of international communication. Featuring thirty readings by imporant intercultural and international communication scholars, The Global Intercultural Communication Reader is edited by Molefi Kete Asante, one of the founders of the field of intercultural communication, along with international scholars Yoshitaka Miike and Jing Yin. The volume is ideal forundergraduate and graduate courses in intercultural communication, particularly those with an international focus.

Table of Contents

Dedication	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Introduction	p. 1
Perspectives on Culture in Theory and Research	p. 9
Concepts of "Culture": Implications for Intercultural Communication Research	p. 11
Ethical Implications of the Ethnic "Text" in Multicultural Communication Studies	p. 27
The Centrality of Culture	p. 37
Metatheoretical Frameworks for Future Directions	p. 45
The Ideological Significance of Afrocentricity in Intercultural Communication	p. 47
Toward an Alternative Metatheory of Human Communication: An Asiacentric Vision	p. 57
Thinking Dialectically about Culture and Communication	p. 73
Contextual Approaches to Culture and Communication	p. 93
Language and Words: Communication in the Analects of Confucius	p. 95
Ubuntu in South Africa: A Sociolinguistic Perspective to a Pan-African Concept	p. 113
Constructing the Other: A Critical Reading of The Joy Luck Club	p. 123
The Four Seasons of Ethnography: A Creation-Centered Ontology for Ethnography	p. 143
Impact of Globalization on Intercultural Communication	p. 165
The Hegemony of English and Strategies for Linguistic Pluralism: Proposing the Ecology of Language Paradigm	p. 167
The Intersecting Hegemonic Discourses of an Asian Mail-Order Bride Catalog: Pilipina "Oriental Butterfly" Dolls for Sale	p. 179
Currents in History, Cultural Domination, and Mass Communication in the Caribbean	p. 193
Identity and Intercultural Communication Competence	p. 213
Intercultural Communication Competence: A Synthesis	p. 215
Beyond Multicultural Man: Complexities of Identity	p. 239
Applying a Critical Metatheoretical Approach to Intercultural Relations: The Case of U.S.-Japanese Communication	p. 263
Ethical Considerations in Intercultural Communication	p. 281
Theoretical Perspectives on Islam and Communication	p. 283
Ethics and the Discourse on Ethics in Post-Colonial India	p. 297
Peace and the Middle East	p. 317
Mutual Learning as an Agenda for Social Development	p. 329
Permissions	p. 335
Index	p. 337
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