Intercultural Communication A Reader (with InfoTrac)

by Samovar, Larry A.; Porter, Richard E.

• ISBN13: 9780534564957
• ISBN10: 053456495X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-05
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Enhance your skills as an effective, culturally aware communicator with INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION: A READER (WITH INFOTRAC). You'll find articles -- some commissioned solely for this text --that discuss the classic ideas that laid the groundwork for this field, as well as those that investigate the field's latest research and ideas. This reader presents material in context so you can to read, understand and then apply the concepts to your own life to ensure that theyStrengthened by the InfoTrac online resource, this text will teach you what you need to know and help you to apply it to your own life!

Table of Contents

Part One: INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION: AN INTRODUCTION

1. Approches to Understanding Intercultural Communication

Larry A

Samovar and Richard E

Porter, Understanding Intercultural Communication: An Introduction and Overview

Harry C

Triandi, Culture and Conflict

Santoshi Ishii, Donald Cooke and Donald Klopf, Our Locus in the Universe: World View and Intercultural Communication

Rod Janzen, Five Paradigms of Ethnic Relations

Part Two: SOCIOCULTURAL BACKGROUNDS: WHAT WE BRING TO INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

2. International Cultures: Understanding Diversity

Wenshan Jia, The Chinese Conceptualizations of Face: Emotions, Communication, and Personhood

James H

Robinson, Communication in Korea: Playing Things by Eye

Martin J

Gannon, India: The Dance of Shiva

Shirley van der Veur, Africa: Cultural Patterns and Communication

Polly A

Begley, Communication with Egyptians

Robert Friday, Contrasts in Discussion Behaviors of German and American Managers

3. Co-Cultures: Living in Two Cultures

Young Yun Kim, Unum and Pluribus: Ideological Underpinnings of Interethnic Communication in the United States

Ronald L

Jackson, II and Celnisha L

Dangerfield, Defining Black Masculinity as Cultural Property: Toward an Identity Negotiation Paradigm

Micheal Tinusta Garrett and Michael P

Wilbur, Does the Worm Live in the Ground: Reflections on Native American Spirituality

Michael Bronski, Gay Culture

Julia T

Wood and Nina M

Reich, Gendered Speech Communities

Valerie C

Mckay, Communication Dynamics of the Elderly

Dawn O

Braithwaite and Charles A

Braithwaite, "Which is my Good Leg?": Cultural Communication Patterns of People with Disabilities

Part Three: INTERCULTURAL INTERACTION: TAKING PART IN INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

4. Verbal Processes: Speaking Across Cultures

Fern L

Johnson, Cultural Dimensions of Discourse

Mary Fong, The Nexus of Language, Communication and Culture

Mei Zhong, Contemporary Social and Political Movements and their Imprints on the Chinese Language

Aaron Castelan Cargile, Discriminating Attitudes Toward Speech

Donald G

Ellis and Ifat Moaz, Dialogue and Cultural Communication Codes Between Isrealite-Jews and Palestinians

Carolyn Roy, Mexican Dichos: Lessons Through Language

5. Nonverbal Communication: Action, Sound and Silence

Peter Andersen, In Different Dimensions: Nonverbal Communication and Culture

Edwin R

McDaniel, Japanese Nonverbal Communication: A Reflection of Cultural Themes

Edward T

Hall, Monochronic and Polychronic Time

Deborah Borisoff and Lisa Merrill, Gender and Nonverbal Communication

6. Cultural Contexts: The Influence of the Setting

Steve Quasha and Edwin R

McDaniel

Reinterpreting Japanese Business Communication in the Information Age

Sheryl Lindsley and Charles A

Braithwaite, U

Americans and Mexicans Working Together: Five Core Concepts

Jeanne M

Brett, Culture and Negotiation

Nagesh Rao, "Half-truths" in Argentina, Brazil and India: An Intercultural Analysis of Physician-Patient Communication

Geneva Gay, Culture and Communication in the Classroom

Part Four: INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION: SEEKING IMPROVEMENT

7. Communicating Interculturally: Becoming Competent

Guo-Ming Chen and William J

Starosta, Intercultural Awareness

James R

Baldwin and Michael Hecht, Unpacking Group-Based Intolerance: A Holographic Look at Identity and Intolerance

Anita S

Mak, Marvin J

Westwood, F

Ishi Ishiyama, and Michelle C

Barker, Optimizing Conditions for Learning Sociocultural Competencies for Success

Stella Ting-Toomey, Managing Intercultural Conflicts Effectively

James Manseau Sauceda, Effective Strategies for Mediating Co-Cultural Conflict

Mary Jane Collier, Understanding Cultural Identities in Intercultural Communication: A Ten Step Inventory

Polly Begley, Sojourner Adaptation

8. Ethical Considerations: Prospects for the Future

Index

Harlen Cleveland, The Limits of Cultural Diversity

Young Yun Kim, Intercultural Personhood: An Integration of Eastern and Western Perspectives

Robert Shuter, Ethics and Communication: An Intercultural Perspective

Martha Nussbuam, Citizens of the World

David W

Kale, Peace as an Ethic for Intercultural Communication