The Global Intercultural Communication Reader

✍ Scribed by Molefi Kete Asante, Yoshitaka Miike, Jing Yin

• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 367
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in intercultural communication, 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 twenty readings by prominent 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 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Dedication......Page 10
Notes on Contributors......Page 14
Acknowledgments......Page 20
Introduction: Issues and Challenges in Intercultural Communication Scholarship......Page 22
Part I: Perspectives on Culture in Theory and Research......Page 30
1 Concepts of “Culture”: Implications for Intercultural Communication Research......Page 32
2 Ethical Implications of the Ethnic “Text” in Multicultural Communication Studies......Page 48
3 The Centrality of Culture......Page 58
Part II: Metatheoretical Frameworks for Future Directions......Page 66
4 The Ideological Significance of Afrocentricity in Intercultural Communication......Page 68
5 Toward an Alternative Metatheory of Human Communication: An Asiacentric Vision......Page 78
6 Thinking Dialectically about Culture and Communication......Page 94
Part III: Contextual Approaches to Culture and Communication......Page 114
7 Language and Words: Communication in the Analects of Confucius......Page 116
8 Ubuntu in South Africa: A Sociolinguistic Perspective to a Pan-African Concept......Page 134
9 Constructing the Other: A Critical Reading of The Joy Luck Club......Page 144
10 The Four Seasons of Ethnography: A Creation-Centered Ontology for Ethnography......Page 164
Part IV: Impact of Globalization on Intercultural Communication......Page 186
11 The Hegemony of English and Strategies for Linguistic Pluralism: Proposing the Ecology of Language Paradigm......Page 188
12 The Intersecting Hegemonic Discourses of an Asian Mail-Order Bride Catalog: Pilipina “Oriental Butterfly” Dolls for Sale......Page 200
13 Currents in History, Cultural Domination, and Mass Communication in the Caribbean......Page 214
Part V: Identity and Intercultural Communication Competence......Page 234
14 Intercultural Communication Competence: A Synthesis......Page 236
15 Beyond Multicultural Man: Complexities of Identity......Page 260
16 Applying a Critical Metatheoretical Approach to Intercultural Relations: The Case of U.S.–Japanese Communication......Page 284
Part VI: Ethical Considerations in Intercultural Communication......Page 302
17 Theoretical Perspectives on Islam and Communication......Page 304
18 Ethics and the Discourse on Ethics in Post-Colonial India......Page 318
19 Peace and the Middle East......Page 338
20 Mutual Learning as an Agenda for Social Development......Page 350
Permissions......Page 356
Index......Page 358