Intercultural Communication: A Reader [Paperback]

Larry A. Samovar (Author), Richard E. Porter (Author)

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Publication Date: June 3, 1999 | ISBN-10: 0534562418 | ISBN-13: 978-0534562410 | Edition: 9th

A collection of 45 readings of both enduring insight and immediate relevancy, introducing practice and underlying theories essential to communicating with other cultures. In addition to 18 new readings, this edition also includes voices of four college students -- a Taiwanese woman, a Japanese man, a Filipino-American woman, and a Mexican-American woman. They describe what it feels like to live between two cultures.

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Preface. 1. APPROACHES TO INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION. Understanding Intercultural Communication: Some Working Principles - Edwin R. McDaniel, Larry A. Samovar and Richard E. Porter. Dimensionalizing Cultures: The Hofstede Model In Context - Geert Hofstede. Culture and Conflict - Harry C. Triandis. Intercultural Communication in a Globalized World - Bernard Saint-Jacques. Worldview in Intercultural Communication: A Religio-Cosmological Approach - Satoshi Ishii, Donald Klopf, and Peggy Cooke. Harmony without Uniformity: An Asiacentric Worldview and its Communicative Implications. - Yoshitaka Miike. CULTURAL IDENTITY: ISSUES OF BELONGING. Globalization and Intercultural Personhood - Young Yun Kim. An Alternative View of Identity - Guo-Ming Chen. Living within Whiteness: A Project Aimed at Undermining Racism - John T. Warren. American Indian Identity: Communicating with Indian-ness - Steven B. Pratt, Merry C. Pratt, and Lynda D. Dixon. We don't talk right. You ask him. - Joan Wynne. International Marriages in Japan: Cultural Conflict and Harmony - Steven E. Quasha and FumikoTsukada. 3. INTERNATIONAL CULTURES: UNDERSTANDING DIVERSITY. The Spitituality of "Being" Grace and Tao and Awaken in Intercultural Communication - Mary Fong. Chimerica: United States-China Communication for the Twenty-first Century - Wenshan Jia, Dexin Tian, and Xuanzi B. Jia. Communication with Indians.- Rajesh Kumar and Anand Kumar Sethi. When Face-to-Face Won't Work: Use of Informal Intermediaries to Communicate Interpersonally in Sub-Saharan Africa - Ann Neville Miller. Russian Cultural Values and Communication Styles - Mira Bergelson. LadylikeMen and Guyland: Cross-Cultural Accomplishments of Masculinities - Justin Charlebois. 4. CO-CULTURES: LIVING IN TWO CULTURES. Unum and Pluribus - Young Yun Kim. Beyond Tolerance: Action Oriented-Interfaith Dialogue with Muslim Communities - Polly Begley. Americans in Black and Brown: Exploring Sources of Intercultural Tensions Between Blacks and Latinos. - Peter Nwosu. Which is My Good Leg? - Dawn Braithwaite and Charles Braithwaite. In Plain Sight: Gay and Lesbian Communication and Culture - William F. Eadie. 5. INTERCULTURAL MESSAGES: VERBAL AND NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION. The Nexus of Language, Communication, and Culture - Mary Fong. Dialogue, Argument, and Cultural Communication Codes Between Israeli-Jews and Palestinians - Donald G. Ellis and Ifat Maoz. Public Speaking Patterns in Kenya - Ann Neville Miller. Mexican Dichos: Lessons Through Language - Carolyn Roy. The Basis of Cultural Differences in Nonverbal Communication - Peter A. Andersen. Monochronic and Polychronic Time - Edward T. Hall. Mexicans and Americans: A Different Sense of Space - Ned Crouch. 6. CULTURAL CONTEXTS: THE INFLUENCE OF SETTING. Japanese Style of Decision Making in Business Organizations - Kazuo Nishiyama. Comparing and Contrasting Germanand American Business Cultures - Michael Hinner. The Problem of Globalization: Jamaican Managers at the Intersection of Past and Present Cultural Challenges - Maurice Hall. Health Journeys: Intersections Between Ancient Healing and Modern Medicine - Polly A. Begley and Debbie A. Ockey. Reflections on a Conversation with a Curandera - Roxanne Amerson. Culture and Communication in the Classroom - Geneva Gay. Enculturation of Values in the Educational Setting: Japanese Group Orientation - Edwin R. McDaniel and Eriko Katsumata. Intercultural Communication and the Global Classroom - Charles Braithwaite. 7. COMMUNICATING INTERCULTURALLY: BECOMING COMPETENT. Axioms for a Theory of Intercultural Communication Competence - Brian H. Spitzberg. Confucian Perspectives of Communication Competence - Xiasosui Xiao and Guo-Ming Chen. Harmony, Conflict and the Process of Argument in Chinese societies - Michael David Hazen and Rui Shi. The Social Construction of Demeanor Through Deference Rituals - Justin Charlebois. Discriminating Attitudes Toward Speech - Aaron Castelan Cargile. 8. ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE. A Communicative Approach to Intercultural Dialogue on Ethics - Richard J. Evanoff. Worldview: The Ethical Dimension - Ninian Smart. Cultural Diversity: A World View - Thomas Sowell. The Limits of Cultural Diversity - Harlan Cleveland.

Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co; 9th edition (June 3, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0534562418
• ISBN-13: 978-0534562410
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Text is Excellent., March 23, 2006

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Michael L. Kent "MLK" (Norman Oklahoma) - See all my reviews
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I have taught with several of the major readers on the market: Samovar and Porter's, Nakayama and Martin, and others. This text has the most well written readings and contains articles on many seminal issues, context (Hall), time (Hall), etc. This text has the LEAST blatantly fluff filled articles intended only to titillate and pander to students. Additionally, if you review some of the other texts, you will see that they often have poorly referenced articles and the work is less than scholarly. It is possible to write a chapter for a reader such as this and support your content with support and references. The articles here are interesting, well written, well referenced, and more-grounded in theory and research than a lot of the competition. I recommend it highly. MLK

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1.0 out of 5 stars Wrong Edition, May 9, 2010

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great book, March 28, 2011

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