Theories in Intercultural Communication

by Young Yun Kim (Editor), William B. Gudykunst (Editor)

Overview

This volume provides an up to date overview and assessment of intercultural communication theories. Advancements stimulated by empirical research resulting from the 1983 title in the same series, Intercultural Communication Theory, are reflected in this volume. In addition to revised chapters on such topics as constructivist theory, coordinated management theory, convergence theory, and adaptation in intercultural relationships, a number of new perspectives have been developed, including discussions on intercultural tranformation and network theory. Contributors from UK and Australia serve to broaden the scope. Just as the earlier volume helped to define the field, Theorizing Intercultural Communication is an important contrib

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803931503
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	10/01/1988
Series:	International and Intercultural Communication Annual , #12
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.74(d)

About the Author

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 (Mc Graw-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.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: OVERVIEW
On Theorizing Intercultural Communication - Young Kun Kim
A Taxonomic Approach to Intercultural Communication - Larry E Sarbaugh
PART TWO: CULTURE AND MEANING
A Constructivist Theory of Communication and Culture - James L Applegate and Howard E Sypher
Coordinated Management of Meaning - Vernon E Cronen, Victoria Chen, and W Barnett Pearce
A Critical Theory
Cultural Identity - Mary Jane Collier and Milt Thomas
An Interpretive Perspective
PART THREE: INTERCULTURAL BEHAVIOR
Uncertainty and Anxiety - William B Gudykunst
Communication Accommodation in Intercultural Encounters - Cynthia Gallois, Arlene Franklyn-Stokes, Howard Giles, and Nikolas Coupland
Episode Representations in Intercultural Communication - Joseph P Forgas
Intercultural Conflict Styles - Stella Ting-Toomey
A Face-Negotiation Theory
PART FOUR: INTERCULTURAL ADAPTATION
Network Theory in Intercultural Communication - June Ock Yum
A Theory of Adaptation in Intercultural Dyads - Huber W Ellingsworth
The Convergence Theory and Intercultural Communication - D Lawrence Kincaid
Intercultural Transformation - Young Kun Kim and Brent D Ruben
A Systems Theory