Readings in Intercultural Communication: Experiences and Contexts

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Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-10-09
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill Education
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Summary

The goal of this revised edition is to explore multiple perspectives in intercultural communication that are grounded in the everyday communication experiences of study. The essays in this edition range from the classic writings of E. T. Hall, Gerry Philipsen and Geert Hofstede to more recent scholarship influenced by critical theory and cultural studies.

Table of Contents

PART I. FOUNDATIONS OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

1. A Dialectical Approach to Intercultural Communication, Judith N. Martin, Thomas K. Nakayama, and Lisa A. Flores

2. Thinking About "Culture" in Intercultural Communication, Dream G. Moon

3. Worldview, Religion and Intercultural Communication, Thomas K. Nakayama and Judith N. Martin

PART II. IDENTITY AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

4. On Being Biracial in the United States, Teresa A. Nance and Anita K. Foeman

5. Jewish American Identity, Douglas R. Golden, T. A. Niles, and Michael L. Hecht

6. Happy to be Nappy! Embracing an Afrocentric Aesthetic for Beauty, Regina E. Spellers

7. My Three Cultures: Navigating the Multicultural Identity Landscape, Gust A. Yep

8. Learning to See What I was Never Supposed to See: Becoming Chicana in a White World, Jacqueline M. Martinez

PART III. HISTORY AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

9. Stranger in the Village, James Baldwin

10. Crossing an Irish Border, Frederick C. Corey

11. Migration Across Generations: Whose identity is Authentic? Kathleen Wong(Lau)

12. Views from the Other Side: Perspectives on the Cyprus Conflict, Benjamin J. Broome

PART IV. LANGUAGE AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

13. Communication Accommodation in Intercultural Encounters, Howard Giles and Kimberly A. Noels

14. Help! My Professor (or Doctor or Boss) Doesn’t Talk English, Donald L. Rubin

15. “I can’t do that!” but I “can actually see around corners”: American Indian Students and the Study of Public “Communication," Donal Carbaugh

16. A Ritual for Attempting Leave-Taking in Colombia, Kristine L. Fitch

17. Code-Switching: An Everyday Reality in Belgium, Jean-Louis Sauvage

PART V. CULTURAL SPACES AND NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION

18. Key Concepts: Underlying Structures of Culture, Edward T. Hall and Mildred Reed Hall

19. Foxwoods Casino and the (Re-)presentation of Native Identity, Leda M. Cooks

20. A Comparative Analysis of Nonverbal Expressions as Portrayed by Korean and American Print-Media Advertising, Min-Sum Kim

21. Places for Speaking in Teamsterville, Gerry Philipsen

PART VI. POPULAR CULTURE AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

22. Cultural Differences in the Perceptions of Sports Mascots: A Rhetorical Study of Tim Giago’s Newspaper Column, Janis L. King

23. Different Children, Different Dreams: Racial Representation in Advertising, Ellen Seiter

24. Looking at the Front Door: Exploring Images of the Black Male on MTV’s The Real World, Mark P. Orbe and Mark C. Hopson

25. The Siege and American Media Portrayals of Arabs and Moslems, Marouf A. Hasian, Jr.

PART VII. COMMUNICATION AND INTERCULTURAL TRANSITIONS

26. Cross-Cultural Adaptation: An Integrative Theory,Young Yun Kim

27. The Cycle of Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Reentry, Shelly L. Smith

28. Translated Enactments: The Relational Configurations of the Asian Indian Immigrant Experience, Radha S. Hegde

29. South Korean Adoptees Growing Up in White America: Negotiating Race and Culture, Etsuko Fujimoto

PART VIII. COMMUNICATION AND INTERCULTURAL RELATIONSHIPS

30. The Role of Family and Macrocultures in Intercultural Relationships, Carley H. Dodd and John R. Baldwin

31. I, We, and They, Geert Hofstede

32. Intercultural Friendships as Interpersonal Alliances, Mary Jane Collier

33. Performing Commitment, Jacqueline Taylor

PART IX. CONFLICT, COMMUNICATION, AND CULTURE

34. Intercultural Conflict Competence, Stella Ting-Toomey

35. Negotiating with the Swazis, Peter Ogom Nwosu

36. Crossing the Color Line: From Empathy to Implicature in Intercultural Communication, Karen Lynnette Dace and Mark Lawrence McPhail

37. Mass-Mediated Communication and Intercultural Conflict, Fernando Delgado

PART X. ETHICS AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

38. Ethical Issues in Intercultural Communication, Judith N. Martin, Lisa A. Flores, and Thomas K. Nakayama

39. Joint Performance Across Cultures: Improvisation in a Persian Garden, Mary Catherine Bateson

40. Redefining the Other in Multicultural Research, Dolores V. Tanno and Fred E. Jandt

41. Painting the White Face Red: Intercultural Contact Presented Through Poetic Ethnography, Maria Cristina Gonzalez

Index

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