Connect Plus Communication Access Card for Intercultural Communication in Contexts

by Martin, Judith; Nakayama, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9781259327698
• ISBN10: 1259327698
• Edition: 6th
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2014-06-27
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

With globalization, intercultural contact is now part of daily life for most of us. Intercultural Communication in Contexts examines communication in multicultural relationships and provides practitioners with the tools for effective communication amid cultural, ethnic, and religious differences. Students are introduced to the primary approaches for studying intercultural communication along with a theoretical and practical framework for applying these approaches themselves.

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Table of Contents

PART I. FOUNDATIONS OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

Chapter 1. Why Study Intercultural Communication?

Chapter 2. The History of the Study of Intercultural Communication

Chapter 3. Culture, Communication, Context, and Power

Chapter 4. History and Intercultural Communication

PART II. INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION PROCESSES

Chapter 5. Identity and Intercultural Communication

Chapter 6. Language and Intercultural Communication

Chapter 7. Nonverbal Codes and Cultural Space

PART III. INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION APPLICATIONS

Chapter 8. Understanding Intercultural Transitions

Chapter 9. Popular Culture and Intercultural Communication

Chapter 10. Culture, Communication, and Intercultural Relationships

Chapter 11. Culture, Communication, and Conflict

Chapter 12. Striving for Engaged and Effective Intercultural Communication