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William B. Gudykunst (Author)


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0761915117 978-0761915119 June 11, 1998 3rd
The newly revised and classroom-tested Third Edition of Bridging Differences has been restructured as a skill-oriented, comprehensive textbook on intergroup communication. William B Gudykunst draws from current research and theory, and shows students how to apply this material to achieve more effective intergroup communication.

New to this edition is a substantially expanded section on understanding group differences and more material on nonverbal communication. Three new chapters on managing conflict, developing relationships and building community have been added. Throughout, Gudykunst provides popular self-assessment questionnaires, and suggests practical applications at the end of each chapter to aid stude



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William B. Gudykunst (Ph.D., Minnesota, 1977) is Professor of Speech Communication at the College of Communications, California State University, Fullerton. Bill has written and edited numerous works for SAGE, including the Handbook of Intercultural and International Communication, 2/e, and Bridging Differences: Effective Intergroup Communication, 3/e as well as the best-selling introductory undergraduate texts Building Bridges: Interpersonal Skills for a Changing World (Houghton Mifflin) and Communicating with Strangers: An Approach to Intercultural Communication, 3/e (McGraw-Hill). He is extremely well known in the discipline and is one of its most prolific writers/scholars in the areas of intercultural communication and human communication theory.


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  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc; 3rd edition (June 11, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0761915117
  • ISBN-13: 978-0761915119
  • Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,356,415 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Elie Wiesel, a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, believes that hate directed toward members of different cultural and racial groups, as well as toward members of different political and ideological groups is the major source of problems between people today. Read the first page
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first reverse the responses, conflicts with strangers, true regarding the way, positional face, uncertainty oriented people, ethnocentric speech, conflict with strangers, categorize strangers, communication with strangers, narrow categorizers, influence our communication, explanations for strangers, messages predominate, questionnaire range, low contact cultures, broad categorizers, high contact cultures, influence your communication, prejudiced talk, beliefs about talk, collectivistic cultures, higher your score, perception checking, interact with strangers, uncertainty reduction processes
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United States, European Americans, African Americans, Always False, Always True, Usually False, Usually True, Mexican Americans, Mostly False, Mostly True, Almost Always, Almost Never, Asian Americans, Puerto Rico, Assessing Your Uncertainty, University of Tokyo, Assessing Your Anxiety, Chinese Americans, Far Eastern, Japanese American
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