Intercultural Communication: An Introduction - Brossura

Jandt, Fred E.

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ISBN 10: 0803970668 ISBN 13: 9780803970663

Casa editrice: SAGE Publications Inc, 1995

Riassunto

In an increasingly diverse society, the necessity for intercultural communication is becoming more apparent. This book is comprehensive, current in its approach to cultural differences and organized clearly. Divided into 21 chapters, the book guides the student through the key concepts of communication and culture with a chapter for each main area such as interpersonal, nonverbal, multicultural and subcultural. While the mainstream cultural divisions are well defined, Fred E Jandt also looks at subcultures and aspects of cultural variance and assimilation such as use of language, immigrant acculturation and sexual preferences. Much of the material in the book is designed to help students build communication skills with particular emphasis on crossing cultural barriers. The emphasis on experiential learning through student activities is aided by use of the student workbook.

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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: CULTURAL DIFFERENCES AFFECTING COMMUNICATION
Nonverbal Communication
Knowing Culture through Language
Language as a Barrier
Culture's Influence on Perception
Culture's Influence on Knowledge
PART THREE: CULTURAL PATTERNS AFFECTING COMMUNICATION
Women, Family and Children
Dimensions of Culture
Dominant United States Cultural Patterns
Comparative Cultural Patterns
A Case Study
Contact between Cultures
PART FOUR: CULTURES WITHIN CULTURES
Immigration and Acculturation
Forces against Assimilation
Forces to Conform to One Cultural Identity
Establishing a Culture
Identity and Subgroups
PART FIVE: THE FUTURE
Multiculturalism
Improving Intercultural Communication

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• Editore: SAGE Publications Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0803970668
• ISBN 13: 9780803970663
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 480