ISBN:
9780415521451
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1596 p)
Edition:
2nd ed
Parallel Title:
Print version The Global Intercultural Communication Reader, 2e
DDC:
303.48/2
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The Global Intercultural Communication Reader is the first anthology to take a distinctly non-Eurocentric approach to the study of culture and communication. In this expanded second edition, editors Molefi Kete Asante, Yoshitaka Miike, and Jing Yin bring together thirty-two essential readings for students of cross-cultural, intercultural, and international communication. This stand-out collection aims to broaden and deepen the scope of the field by placing an emphasis on diversity, including work from authors across the globe examining the processes and politics of intercultural co
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Dedication: In Honor of Dr. Everett M. Rogers (1931-2004); Acknowledgments; Introduction: New Directions for Intercultural Communication Research; Part I: The Emergence and Evolution of Intercultural Communication; 1. Notes in the History of Intercultural Communication: The Foreign Service Institute and the Mandate for Intercultural Training; Background: The Foreign Service Institute; Microcultural Analysis; Proxemics, Time, Paralanguage, Kinesics; The Linguistic Model; Culture and Communication; Conclusion; Notes; References
Description / Table of Contents:
2. The Evolution of International Communication as a Field of Study: A Personal ReflectionThe 1960s and the Birth of a Field of Study: International Communications; International Communications as a Field of Study Within International Relations; World War II: Systems Theory and the Evolution of International Communications; Post-World War II; Notes; 3. The Centrality of Culture in the 20th and 21st Centuries; Research on Intercultural Communication: 1980-1990; Research on Intercultural Communication: 2006-2011; Intercultural Communication in the 20th and 21st Centuries: A Cultural Imperative
Description / Table of Contents:
An Intracultural Communication Research Agenda for the FutureConclusion: Back to the Future; Notes; References; 4. Theories of Culture and Communication; Culture; Form; Function; Locus; Communication; Form and Function; Locus; Research Goals; Relationship of Culture and Communication; Implications for Acculturation; Traditional; Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM); Ethnography of Communication; Conclusion; References; 5. Mapping Cultural Communication Research: 1960s to the Present; Shifting Terminology; Understanding Culture; Ethnicity and Identity; Approach to Present Study
Description / Table of Contents:
General Trends and PatternsReview of Literature Related to the Four Modes of Inquiry; Intracultural; Intercultural; Cross-Cultural; Critical Cultural; Conclusion and Implications; References; 6. Sojourning Through Intercultural Communication: A Retrospective; A Sense of Direction; Grasping What Lies Beyond the Reach; Where the Known Meets the Other; Responsiveness to What We Cannot Control; Conclusion; Author's Note; References; Part II: Issues and Challenges in Cross-Cultural and Intercultural Inquiry; 7. Afrocentricity: Toward a New Understanding of African Thought in the World
Description / Table of Contents:
The African Origin of PhilosophyEarliest African Philosophers; Characteristics of Afrocentricity; (1). An Intense Interest in Psychological Location as Determined by Symbols, Motifs, Rituals, and Signs; (2). A Commitment to Finding the Subject-Place of Africans in any Social, Political, Economic, or Religious Phenomenon With Implications for Questions of Sex, Gender, and Class; (3). A Defense of African Cultural Elements as Historically Valid in the Context of Art, Music, and Literature
Description / Table of Contents:
(4). A Celebration of "Centeredness" and Agency and a Commitment to Lexical Refinement That Eliminates Pejoratives About Africans or Other People
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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