Handbook of International and Intercultural Communication

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William B. Gudykunst, Bella Mody
SAGE Publications, 2002 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 606 pages

This Second Edition illustrates how the field is composed and looks at how it has grown. The four parts examine cross-cultural communication; intercultural communication; international communication; and development communication. Each part begins with a chapter on theories and closes with one on issues. This Edition is thoroughly revised and reorganized with expanded coverage of international, development, and cross-cultural communication and new chapters.

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Contents

CROSSCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
19
CrossCultural Communication Theories
25
Language and Verbal Communication Across Cultures
69
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About the author (2002)

William B. Gudykunst (Ph.D., Minnesota, 1977) is Professor of Speech Communication at the College of Communications, California State University, Fullerton. Bill has written and edited numerous works for SAGE, including the Handbook of Intercultural and International Communication, 2/e, and Bridging Differences: Effective Intergroup Communication, 3/e as well as the best-selling introductory undergraduate texts Building Bridges: Interpersonal Skills for a Changing World (Houghton Mifflin) and Communicating with Strangers: An Approach to Intercultural Communication, 3/e (McGraw-Hill). He is extremely well known in the discipline and is one of its most prolific writers/scholars in the areas of intercultural communication and human communication theory. Bella Mody (Ph.D., Gujarat University; M.A., University of Pennsylvania; B.A. Ranchi University) served as chair of the International and Development Communication Division of ICA from 1999 to 2001 and is a consultant to international and nongovernmental organizations. Her research interests include international media, communication technology application in developing countries, and gender, ethnicity, and class.

Bibliographic information

TitleHandbook of International and Intercultural Communication
Sage publications
EditorsWilliam B. Gudykunst, Bella Mody
Edition2, abridged, illustrated
PublisherSAGE Publications, 2002
Original fromthe University of California
Digitized6 Feb 2008
ISBN0761920900, 9780761920908
Length606 pages
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Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies
  
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