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Experiencing Intercultural Communication provides students with a framework in which they can begin building their intercultural communication skills. Drawing from social psychological approaches, ethnographic studies, and recent critical media studies it places emphasis on the practical, experiential nature of intercultural communication and provides solid, practical guidelines to help students approach the complexities of intercultural communication.
List of contents
Part I: Foundations of Intercultural CommunicationChapter 1: Studying Intercultural Communication
Chapter 2: Intercultural Communication
Chapter 3: History and Intercultural Communication
Chapter 4: Identity and Intercultural Communication
Part II: Intercultural Communication ProcessesChapter 5: Verbal Issues in Intercultural Communication
Chapter 6: Nonverbal Communication Issues
Part III: Intercultural Communication in Everyday LifeChapter 7: Popular Culture and Intercultural Communication
Chapter 8: Culture, Communication, and Conflict
Chapter 9: Intercultural Relationships in Everyday Life
Part IV: Intercultural Communication in Applied SettingsChapter 10: Intercultural Communication in Tourism Contexts
Chapter 11: Intercultural Communication and Business
Chapter 12: Intercultural Communication and Education
Chapter 13: Intercultural Communication and Health Care
About the author
Judith N. Martin is currently Herberger Professor of Communication in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. She received her Ph.D. in speech communication from the Pennsylvania State University. She also studied at the Université de Grenoble for a year, and was involved in study aboard administration for a number of years. She also has experience in cross cultural training and has co-authored three books with Prof. Tom Nakayama. Her current research interests focus on: the role of communication in cross cultural transitions, white identity and and communication, and pedagogical issues in teaching intercultural communication.
Thomas K. Nakayama is Professor and Director of the Department of Communications Studies, Northeastern University. He received his Ph.D. in communication studies from the University of Iowa. He has been a Fulbright lecturer at the Université de Mons-Hainaut in Belgium and Libra Professor at the University of Maine. He has taught at Arizona State University, California State University, San Bernardino and the University of Iowa. His interests are in critical theory, cultural studies, and rhetorical studies.
