The highly anticipated Ninth Edition of An Introduction to Intercultural Communication prepares today’s students to successfully navigate our increasingly global community by integrating major current events into essential communication skills and concepts. To spark student interest, award-winning professor and best-selling author Fred E. Jandt offers unique insights into intercultural communication, at home and abroad, through an emphasis on history, culture, and popular media. Each chapter integrates material on social media, as well as extensive new examples from recent international news and events. Throughout the text, Jandt reinforces the important roles that our own stories, personal experiences, and self-reflection play in building our intercultural understanding and competence.
Author(s): Fred E Jandt.
Edition: 9th Edition
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 1181
Tags: cultural communication, an introduction to intercultural communication, communications, public relations, intercultural communication
Half Title......Page 2
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 6
Brief Contents......Page 8
Detailed Contents......Page 10
About the Author......Page 19
Preface......Page 21
Acknowledgments......Page 28
Part 1Culture as Context for Communication......Page 30
Chapter 1Defining Culture and Communication......Page 32
Chapter 2Barriers to Intercultural Communication......Page 102
Part 2Communication Variables......Page 185
Chapter 3Context, Perception, and Competence......Page 187
Chapter 4Nonverbal Communication......Page 257
Chapter 5Language as a Barrier......Page 327
Part 3Cultural Values......Page 402
Chapter 6Dimensions of Nation-State Cultures......Page 404
Chapter 7Dominant U.S. Cultural Patterns Using Value Orientation Theory......Page 484
Chapter 8Religion and Identity......Page 562
Chapter 9Culture and Gender......Page 627
Part 4Cultures Within Cultures......Page 709
Chapter 10Immigration and Acculturation......Page 711
Chapter 11Cultures Within Cultures......Page 801
Chapter 12Identity and Subgroups......Page 874
Part 5Applications......Page 938
Chapter 13Contact Between Cultures......Page 940
Chapter 14Future Challenges......Page 1016
Glossary......Page 1067
References......Page 1081
Index......Page 1153
