"One of the best textbooks in intercultural communication for undergraduate students" —Mo Bahk, California State University, San Bernardino How does the Syrian refugee crisis, the election of Donald Trump, and the global rise of nationalism affect our ability to communicate and function across cultures? The highly anticipated Ninth Edition of An Introduction to Intercultural Communication prepares today’s students to successfully navigate our increasingly global community by integrating major current events into essential communication skills and concepts. To spark student interest, award-winning professor and best-selling author Fred E. Jandt offers unique insights into intercultural communication, at home and abroad, through an emphasis on history, culture, and popular media. Each chapter integrates material on social media, as well as extensive new examples from recent international news and events. Throughout the text, Jandt reinforces the important roles that our own stories, personal experiences, and self-reflection play in building our intercultural understanding and competence. Give your students the SAGE edge! SAGE edge offers a robust online environment featuring an impressive array of free tools and resources for review, study, and further exploration, keeping both instructors and students on the cutting edge of teaching and learning. Learn more at edge.sagepub.com/jandt9e.
New and continuing features include: • An environment-focused box in each chapter discusses how the environment relates to each topic • 'Focus on Theory' boxes ground practical material in communication and social theory • Expanded ...
This fifth edition challenges students to develop cultural competency by developing an understanding of how we perceive and react to cultural roles - not only those of others, but also our own. Previous ed.: 2004.
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.
This easy-to-read volume covers a wide range of material including a historical framework to view the development of current topics; an integration of media as a variable in the advancement...
An Introduction to Intercultural Communication: Identities in a Global Community
This comprehensive, user-friendly introduction takes a current approach to cultural differences, and guides the student through the key concepts of communication and culture.
The sixth edition of Experiencing Intercultural Communication, An Introduction provides students with a framework in which they can begin building their intercultural communication skills.
Introduction to Intercultural Communication
Bringing together current research, theories and methods from leading scholars in the field, this volume is a state-of-the-art study of intercultural communication competence and effectiveness. In the first part,...
This work will enhance the collections of libraries that support communication and business programs in particular.