An introduction to intercultural communication
Subtitle: identities in a global community
By: Fred E. Jandt
Edition: 7th ed.
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9781412992879
Subjects: International Communication; Intercultural communication
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Defining culture and identities. Regulators of human life and identity -- Race and skin color -- The contact zone -- Understanding face-to-face and mediated communication. Intercultural communication competence -- Intercultural communication ethics -- Cultural definitions of communication -- The media of intercultural communication -- The special case of prejudice and racism -- Culture's influence on perception. Sensing -- Perceiving -- High versus low context -- The concept of face -- A case study of perception and food -- Barriers to intercultural communication. Anxiety -- Assuming similarity instead of difference -- Ethnocentrism -- Stereotypes and prejudice -- Case study of intercultural communication barriers: China and the United States. Nonverbal communication. Nonverbal behaviors as cues -- Nonverbal communication as intentional communication -- Knowing culture through nonverbal messages -- Nonverbal misinterpretations as a barrier -- Nonverbal message codes -- Case study : the Wai in Thailand -- Case study : Korean-American neighborhood businesses -- Language as a barrier. Study of language origins -- Sapir-Whorf hypothesis -- Translation problems -- Pidgins, creoles, and universal languages -- Language as nationalism -- Dimensions of culture. Individualism versus collectivism -- Masculinity versus femininity -- Power distance -- Uncertainty avoidance -- Long-term versus short-term orientation -- Environmental sustainability -- Dominant U.S. cultural patterns: using value orientation theory. Origins of U.S. Cultural patterns -- Forces toward the development of a dominant culture -- Value orientation theory -- What is a human being's relation to nature? -- What is the modality of human activity? -- What is the temporal focus of human life? -- What is the character of innate human nature? -- What is the relationship of the individual to others? -- Forces toward the development of regional cultures -- Comparative cultural patterns : Arab culture. The Arab states -- The Islamic faith -- Saudi Arabia -- Dubai -- Dominant cultural patterns -- Communication barriers -- Culture and gender. Gender and communication -- Status of women -- World Economic Forum study -- Comparison of individual countries -- Family units -- Contact between cultures. Colonialism -- Cultural imperialism -- Cultural icons -- Cultural hegemony -- U.S. Cultural icons -- Diffusion model -- Roles in the diffusion process -- Convergence model -- Adapting the message -- Immigration and acculturation. Culture shock -- Third-culture kids -- Migration within one country -- Citizenship policies -- Immigration -- Predictors of acculturation -- Categories of acculturation -- Cultures within cultures. Marginalization : the Hmong -- Cultural patterns -- Separation : Koreans in Russia -- Separation : the Amish -- Values -- Indigenous cultures -- Assimilation: United States -- Integration: United States -- Hispanic cultures -- Postethnic cultures -- Identity and subgroups. Argot -- Subgroup media and values -- Examples of subgroups -- Sexual orientation as a basis for subgroups -- Integration or assimilation of subgroups -- A final word -- Summary -- Glossary.