Intercultural communication : a global reader / editor, Fred E. Jandt.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I.Cultural values -- Race, history and culture. Claude Le�vi-Strauss -- Business cultures. Geert Hofstede -- Human factors on the flight deck: the influence of nationa culture. Ashleigh C. Merritt and Robert L. Helmreich -- Conflict management in Thai organizsations. Rujira Rojjanaprarapayon ... [et al] -- An examination of Taoist and Buddhist perspectives on interpersonal conflicts, emotions, and adversities. Reyling Chuang -- Cultural values and argumentative orientation for Chinese people in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mainland China. Jung-huel Becky Yeh and Ling Chen -- Information accessiblity, user sophistication, and source credibility: the impace of the internet on the value orientation in Mainland China. Jonathan J. H. Zhu and Zhou He -- What is the basis of American culture? M. Gene Aldrige -- Part II: Language -- Babel revisited. Peter Mu�lha�user -- Africa: the power of speech. Amadou Hampate� Ba -- Mexican American ethnicity in Biola, CA: an ethnographic account of hard work, family, and religion. Eric Aoki -- Korean\'s politeness strategies. Kil-Ho Kang -- Online communication between Australians and Koreans: learning to manage differences that matter. Hee-Soo Kim ... [et al] -- Language choice online: globalization and identity in Egypt. Mark Warschauer ... -- Research and context for a theory of Maori schooling. Wally Penetito -- Naming the outsider within: Homophobic pejoratives and the verbal abuse of lesbian, gay, and bisexual high-school pupils. Crispin Thurlow -- Part III.Identities -- Decoding domination, encoding self-determination: intercultural communication research processes. Fred E. Jandt and Dolores V. Tanno -- Gender differences in communication: an intercultural experience. Becky Michele Mulvaney -- Acculturation, communication, and the US mass media: the experience of an Iranian immigrant. Flora Keshishian -- Reconfiguring borders: health-care providers and practical environmentalism in Cameron County, Texas. Trala Rai Peterson ... [et al] -- Nuestro espacio cyber: the Internet as expressive space for Latina/os in the United States. Richard D. Pineda -- Nike\'s communcation with black audiences. Ketra L. Armstrong -- Toward theroizing Japanese interpersonal communcation competence from a non-Western perspective. Akira Miyahara -- Differences in the perception of face: Chinese Mien-Tzu and Japanese Metsu. Kiyoko Suedo -- Part IV: Living together in peace -- ON intercultural rhetoric. William J. Starosta -- The concept of an intercultural philosophy. Ram Adhar Mall -- Women\'s rights as human rights - rules, realities and the role of culture: a formula for reform. Berta Esperanza Hernandez-Truyol -- Mediating conflict in Central America. Paul Wehr and john Paul Lederach -- Islamic mediation techniques for Middle East Conflicts. George E. Irani -- Creating a culture of peace: the performing art sin interethnic negotiations. Kjell Skyllstad -- Part V: Colonialization and globalization -- Nobel lecture, December 8, 1896. Wole Soyinka -- Consumerism: its hidden beauties and politics. Ashis Nandy -- Interculturalism in Singapore: looking the big, bad other. William Peterson -- The impace of universities on globalisation. Lalita Rajasingham -- Globalisation, informatization, and intercultural communication. Randy Kluver -- Five ways to reduce the foreign terrorist threat to the United Sates. Mohan R. Limaye --

Containing 36 articles, this text showcases the development and diversity of intercultural communication theories in countries such as China, Africa, the United States, New Zealand, Mexico, Egypt and others.