Understanding intercultural communication

✍ Scribed by Ting-Toomey, Stella; Chung, Leeva C

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 352
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Written in a conversational style, this book introduces students to the foundations of intercultural communication, a vibrant discipline within the field. Authors Stella Ting-Toomey and Leeva Chung take a multicontextual, inclusive approach that balances international and intercultural communication issues against U.S. domestic diversity issues. In addition to emphasizing a value-oriented perspective on intercultural encounters, the text contains a robust ethical chapter, complete with specific guidelines that will help students become ethical intercultural communicators.

By integrating current empirical research with lively intercultural examples, the authors ask thought-provoking questions and pose ethical dilemmas for students to ponder. The text offers a sprawling treatment of such topics as ethnic and cultural identity change, culture shock and intercultural adjustment, romantic relationships and raising bicultural children, global identity challenges, and decision-making choices in intercultural ethics.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: 1. Why study intercultural communication? --
2. What is intercultural communication flexibility? --
3. What are the essential cultural value patterns? --
4. What are the keys to understanding cultural and ethnic identities? --
5. What is culture shock? --
6. What is the connection between verbal communication and culture? --
7. What are the different ways to communicate nonverbally across cultures? --
8. What causes us to hold biases against outgroups? --
9. How can we manage intercultural conflict flexibly? --
10. What are the challenges in developing an intercultural-intimate relationship? --
11. What are the communication issues facing a global identity? --
12. How can we become ethical intercultural communicators?

✦ Subjects

Culture shock.;Language and culture.;Cross-cultural orientation.;Interkulturalität.;Kommunikation.;Kulturkontakt.;Kulturvergleich.;Sprache.;Interkulturell kommunikation.;Kulturchock.;Språk och samhälle.