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Intercultural communication : an introduction /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jandt, Fred Edmund
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [1998]
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Intercultural communication.
Intercultural communication > United States.
Communication, International.
Table of Contents:
  • The dispute over defining culture
  • Defining communication as an element of culture
  • Barriers to intercultural communication
  • Stereotypes and prejudice as barriers
  • Nonverbal communication
  • Knowing culture through language
  • Language as a barrier
  • Culture's influence on perception
  • Children, women, and families
  • Dimensions of culture
  • Dominant United States cultural patterns : using value orientation theory
  • Comparative cultural patterns : Russian and Arabian cultures
  • Contact between cultures
  • Immigration and acculturation
  • Forces against assimilation
  • Forces to conform to one cultural identity
  • Establishing a culture
  • Identity and subgroups
  • Multiculturalism
  • Improving intercultural communication.