The newest ideas and findings in cross-cultural interpersonal communication are provided in this challenging volume. The internationally-recognized contributors examine such salient topics as interpersonal relationship development between people from different cultures, family nicknaming practices, and language and intercultural attraction.
The authors examine the theoretical influence of culture on interpersonal communication. They provide a framework for guiding future, and for interpreting past, research in the field. Because cross-cultural comparisons...
Through both emic and etic approaches, this groundbreaking volume explores how members of a culture understand their own communication, and compares the similarities and differences of specific aspects of communication across cultures.
Striking a unique balance between skills and theory, Intercultural Competence provides students with the background and confidence to succeed in today's multicultural environment. Blending both the practical and the theoretical,...
This book teaches to be proactive, not reactive, in your cross-cultural communications and shows how to use simple rapport tools to create trust with the cultures you work with or travel to.
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This thought-provoking text presents a new framework for understanding the impact of culture on communication and for helping students build intercultural communication competence.
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 handbook takes a multi-disciplinary approach to offer a current state-of-art survey of intercultural communication (IC) studies.
In the following, this essay aims to establish what steps an individual can take to become a more effective communicator with a range of people from different countries.
This introductory text explores the socio-cultural surround in which interpersonal communication takes place, and considers the interface between interpersonal and mass communication.