Intercultural Communication: An Introduction - Rilegato

Jandt, Fred E.

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ISBN 10: 0761922016 ISBN 13: 9780761922018

Casa editrice: SAGE Publications Inc, 2001

Riassunto

This easy-to-read volume covers a wide range of material including a historical framework to view the development of current topics; an integration of media as a variable in the advancement of issues and ideas; and the key concepts of communication and culture. This new Third Edition retains its classic coverage of intercultural communication while updating and expanding topics to include racial profiling, the effects of immigration on cultures world-wide, and preservation of indigenous cultures and languages.

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L'autore:

Fred E. Jandt was born of second-generation German immigrants in the multicultural south-central region of Texas. After graduating from Texas Lutheran University and Stephen F. Austin State University, he received his doctorate in communication from Bowling Green State University. He has taught and been a student of intercultural communication for more than 40 years, developing his experience through travel and international training and research projects. While Professor of Communication at The College at Brockport, State University of New York, his reputation as a teacher led to his appointment as SUNY’s first director of faculty development. He has retired as Dean of the Palm Desert Campus and Professor of Communication at California State University, San Bernardino, where he was named Outstanding Professor. He has also been a visiting professor at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He has extensive experience in the areas of intercultural and international communication, negotiation mediation, and conflict management. He was one of the first scholars to introduce the study of conflict to the communication discipline with his text Conflict Resolution Through Communication (Harper & Row, 1973). He has subsequently published many other titles in this area, including the successful trade books Win-Win Negotiating: Turning Conflict Into Agreement (Wiley, 1985), which has been translated into eight languages, and a casebook on international conflict management, Constructive Conflict Management: Asia-Pacific Cases (SAGE, 1996) with Paul B. Pedersen. For several years, he conducted the training workshop “Managing Conflict Productively” for major corporations and government agencies throughout the United States. Jandt continues to train volunteers who are learning to become mediators in the California justice system.

Contenuti:

PART ONE: CULTURE AS CONTEXT FOR COMMUNICATION
The Dispute Over Defining Culture
Defining Communication as an Element of Culture
Barriers to Intercultural Communication
Stereotypes and Prejudice as Barriers
PART TWO: COMMUNICATION VARIABLES
Nonverbal Communication
Knowing Culture through Language
Language as a Barrier
Culture's Influence on Perception
PART THREE: CULTURAL VALUES
Dimensions of Culture
Dominant United States Cultural Patterns
Using Value Orientation Theory
Comparative Cultural Patterns
Arabian Culture
Women, Families and Children
Contact between Cultures
PART FOUR: CULTURES WITHIN CULTURES
Immigration and Acculturation
Forces against Assimilation
Forces to Conform to One Cultural Identity
Reclaiming a Culture
Identity and Subgroups
PART FIVE: THE FUTURE
Multiculturalism
Challenges Facing Intercultural Communication

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• Editore: SAGE Publications Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0761922016
• ISBN 13: 9780761922018
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 3
• Numero di pagine: 544