Organized around basic questions related to intercultural interaction, this text explores how culture and communication are intimately related. The author discusses the roles of rituals and social dramas not typically found in other texts and provides an extensive and relevant discussion of differing worldviews. Making extensive use of narrative to help promote interest and learning, the text is geared to practical applications which students can incorporate into their own lives and interactions with others.
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"The (narrative) approach is the main virtue of the book. It enables the students to experience cultures through story-telling, which bring the theoretical concepts to life. I also appreciate the inclusion of Hymes' framework because it gives the students an ethnographic approach to studying cultures that they can apply immediately."
"I love the fresh perspective of this book. I greatly appreciate the narrative basis for this book. The textbook then offers us even more diverse perspectives for gaining that cognitive complexity that helps us refrain from judging other cultures in a negative way." --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
"I love the fresh perspective of this book. I greatly appreciate the narrative basis for this book. The textbook then offers us even more diverse perspectives for gaining that cognitive complexity that helps us refrain from judging other cultures in a negative way." --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Bradford 'J' Hall is Chair of the Communication and Journalism Department at the University of New Mexico. He loves teaching courses in intercultural communication, research methods, communication theory and the connections between language and action. His research has been published in such journals as Communication Monographs, Communication Theory, Human Relations, The International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Human Communication Research, and International Journal of Conflict Management.
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An interesting book, but ultimately,
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This review is from: Among Cultures: The Challenge of Communication (with InfoTrac) (Paperback)
It's really just a textbook. Hall describes the various aspects of culture and intercultural communication in a series of chapters designed to give students a unique insight into what happens in the world of diversity. It's an interesting book that has it's flaws-despite the talk about anti-stereotyping, Hall ends up doing it anyways, but these flaws hardly detract from the wealth of information in here. I wouldn't recommend this book for bedtime reading, but you should probably be glad if your teacher assigns it for a class.
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This review is from: Among Cultures: The Challenge of Communication (with InfoTrac) (Paperback)
I needed this book for a inter cultural communication class and so far it's been very interesting.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Hard Reading,
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This review is from: Among Cultures: The Challenge of Communication (with InfoTrac) (Paperback)
I got this book for a multicultural communications class. It is interesting to read about certain concepts which the author dissects and labels, but it is a very hard read. I can usually ignore distractions, but this book requires all of my concentration. Sometimes I have to read a sentence a couple of times before I understand the information. Let's just say that this author does NOT use plain English, so keep a dictionary handy.
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