Understanding Intercultural Communication

Name: Understanding Intercultural Communication
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ISBN: 9780195330069

ISBN-10: 0195330064

ISBN-13: 9780195330069

Edition: 2005

Authors: Stella Ting-Toomey, Leeva C. Chung

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Understanding Intercultural Communication offers a comprehensive look at the foundational concepts of the discipline. Employing the dynamic theme of flexible intercultural communication, it effectively bridges the gap between theory and practice. A distinctive feature is the book's well-balanced emphasis on both cross-national intercultural communication issues and U.S. domestic diversity issues. Written in a conversational style, it presents up-to-date, identity-based frameworks and fresh approaches. By integrating current empirical research with lively examples, the text illustrates the practical nature of the intercultural communication field. The authors encourage students to think…

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List price: $69.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/29/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 10.00" wide x 6.89" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Stella Ting-Toomey (PhD, University of Washington) is a professor of human communication at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF). She has published numerous books and over more than 100 articles/chapters on the topics of intercultural conflict competence and ethnic identity negotiation process. A recent book title is Understanding Intercultural Communication, Second Edition (with Leeva Chung; Oxford University Press). Her publications have also appeared in the International Journal of Intercultural Relations , Communication Monographs , Human Communication Research , and The International Journal of Conflict Management , among others. Dr. Ting-Toomey's teaching passions include…




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Practical Reasons to Study Intercultural Communication


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What Is Intercultural Communication?


Culture: A Learned Meaning System


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Intercultural Communication Process: Overall Characteristics: Intercultural Communication: Meaning Characteristics: Practicing Intercultural Process Thinking


Process Consciousness: Underlying Principles: Intercultural Toolkit: Recaps and Checkpoints



What Are the Essential Cultural Value Patterns?


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Defining Acculturation and Enculturation: Social Identity Factors: Systems-Level Factors: Individual-Level Factors: Interpersonal-Ethnic Media-Level Factors: Ethnic-Cultural Identity Change Process


Ethnic-Cultural Identity Typological Model: Racial-Ethnic Identity Development Model: Intercultural Toolkit: Recaps and Checkpoints



Intercultural Communication Shocks: Crossing Boundaries



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