Today, students are more familiar with other cultures than ever before because of the media, Internet, local diversity, and their own travels abroad. Using a social constructionist framework, Inter/Cultural Communication provides today's students with a rich understanding of how culture and communication affect and effect each other. Weaving multiple approaches together to provide a comprehensive understanding of and appreciation for the diversity of cultural and intercultural communication, this text helps students become more aware of their own identities and how powerful their identities can be in facilitating change—both in their own lives and in the lives of others.
Highlighting values, ethnicity, physical geography, and attitudes, the book examines means of interaction, including body language, eye contact, and exchange of words, as well as the stages of relationships, cross-cultural management, ...
Readers of the second edition of Intercultural Communication for Everyday Life readers will also find: Accessible definitions of core concepts Revised and updated chapters reflecting the COVID-19 crisis, climate change challenges, and more ...
Intercultural Communication
This handbook takes a multi-disciplinary approach to offer a current state-of-art survey of intercultural communication (IC) studies.
Translating Theory into Practice Globalizing Intercultural Communication: A Reader introduces students to intercultural communication within the global context, and equips them with the knowledge and understanding to grapple with the ...
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The essential guide to intercultural communication. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's. Willis-Rivera, J. L., & Meeker, M. (1997). De Que Colores: A critical examination of multicultural children's books. Communication Education, 51(3), ...
This book will not merely guide you to success in your studies, but will teach you to become a more critical consumer of information and understand the influence of your own culture on how you view yourself and others.
Combining perspectives from discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, the second edition of this popular textbook provides students with an up-to-date overview of the field of intercultural communication.