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Informationen zum Autor Anastacia Kurylo (Ph.D., RutgersUniversity) is Assistant Professor ofCommunication Arts at Marymount Manhattan Collegein New York City.She teaches courses in Interpersonal Communication, Advanced InterpersonalCommunication Theory, Gender and Communication, Organizational Communication,Principles and Theories of Communication, Public Speaking, InterculturalCommunication, Stereotypes and Communication. In her twelve years of teaching she has taught at numerous collegesincluding Borough of Manhattan Community College, Marymount Manhattan College, New YorkUniversity, Pace University,Rutgers University,and St. John’s University. Her research interestsinclude the examination of stereotypes communicated in interpersonal,intercultural, and organizational contexts and the implications of these forstereotype maintenance. She also studies pedagogy and mentorship as well as emotionand culture. She has published five teaching activities, four book chapters, arecent interdisciplinary article onstereotypes published in QualitativeResearch in Psychology , and her blog TheCommunicatedStereotype.com. She iscurrently writing The CommunicatedStereotype: From Media to Everyday Talk to be published with LexingtonPress. She is a former President of the New Jersey Communication Associationand serves as a reviewer or Editorial board member for several journals andassociations. She enjoys spending time with her family, creating mosaics, eatingin cafes, and working on research with her students. Klappentext Today, students are more familiar with other cultures than ever before because of the media, Internet, local diversity, and their own travels abroad. Using a social constructionist framework, Inter/Cultural Communication provides today's students with a rich understanding of how culture and communication affect and effect each other. Weaving multiple approaches together to provide a comprehensive understanding of and appreciation for the diversity of cultural and intercultural communication, this text helps students become more aware of their own identities and how powerful their identities can be in facilitating change-both in their own lives and in the lives of others. "There is so much here, I could go on and on...There is a full range of approaches to understanding culture from the perspectives of communication theory and social psychology. It provides a good overview and an update for those of us who don't get to see it all put together in the same place very often. At the same time, for those of us who don't an airline ticket to New York, the book provides a deep sense of how diversity discourse is constructed, expressed and propagated in the USA. " Zusammenfassung Introductory textbook offering intercultural communication students a fuller understanding of how culture and communication affect and effect eachother. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART I. INTRODUCTION TO INTER/CULTURAL COMMUNICATION Chapter 1. Culture and Communication - Anastacia Kurylo Living Culture: The Social Construction of Race - Anita Foeman Chapter 2. Intercultural and Cross-Cultural Communication - Bernadette M. Watson Living Culture: Interpreting Gestures - Bill Edwards Chapter 3. Intercultural Communication Competence - Lily Arasaratnam Living Culture: A Punk. A Lifer. - Brian Cogan Chapter 4. A Communication Theory of Culture - Donal Carbaugh Living Culture: Latin Dancing? - Anonymous Chapter 5. Culture in Conversation - Jessica S. Robles Living Culture: Let's Have the Men Clean Up - Anonymous PART II. DISTINGUISHING SELF AND OTHER Chapter 6. Self-Identity and Culture - Ronald L. Jackson II, Cerise L. Glenn, & Kesha Morant Williams Living Culture: The Dilemma of Nationalism in Pakistan - Satar...
