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An introduction to intercultural communication : identities in a global community / Fred E. Jandt.

By: Jandt, Fred Edmund.
Publisher: Thousand Oaks : SAGE, c2007Edition: 5th ed.Description: xx, 444 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781412914420 (pbk.).Subject(s): Intercultural communication -- United States | Communication, International | Intercultural communicationDDC classification: 303.482
Contents:
Part 1: Culture as context for communication - Chapter 1. The dispute over defining culture - Chapter 2. Defining communication as an element of culture - Chapter 3. Culture's influence on perception - Part 2: Communication variables - Chapter 4. Barriers to intercultural communication - Chapter 5. Nonverbal communication - Chapter 6. Language as a barrier - Part III. Cultural values - Chapter 7. Dimensions of culture - Chapter 8. Dominant U.S. cultural patterns using value orientation theory - Chapter 9. Comparative cultural patterns Arab culture - Chapter 10. Women, families and children - Chapter 11. Contact between cultures - Part IV: Cultures within cultures - Chapter 12. Immigration and acculturation - Chapter 13. Cultures in marginalization and separation and segregation - Chapter 14. Assimilation and intergration - Chapter 15. Identity and subgroups - Index.
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Previous ed.: 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 404-423) and index.

Part 1: Culture as context for communication - Chapter 1. The dispute over defining culture - Chapter 2. Defining communication as an element of culture - Chapter 3. Culture's influence on perception - Part 2: Communication variables - Chapter 4. Barriers to intercultural communication - Chapter 5. Nonverbal communication - Chapter 6. Language as a barrier - Part III. Cultural values - Chapter 7. Dimensions of culture - Chapter 8. Dominant U.S. cultural patterns using value orientation theory - Chapter 9. Comparative cultural patterns Arab culture - Chapter 10. Women, families and children - Chapter 11. Contact between cultures - Part IV: Cultures within cultures - Chapter 12. Immigration and acculturation - Chapter 13. Cultures in marginalization and separation and segregation - Chapter 14. Assimilation and intergration - Chapter 15. Identity and subgroups - Index.