Intercultural Communication: A Reader

This eye-opening reader explores how communication values and styles can be similar or different for members of various cultures and communities. INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION: A READER focuses on practical strategies you can use to communicate more effectively in a variety of contexts, including interpersonal, rhetoric, group, business, education, health care, and organizational. This broad-based, highly engaging reader, compiled by the authors who defined the course, includes a balanced selection of articles—some commissioned solely for this text—that discusses the classic ideas that laid the groundwork for this field, as well as the latest research and ideas. Material is presented in such a way that you can read, understand, and then apply course concepts to your own life.

Samovar (San Diego State University) adds 23 new essays, 12 written especially for the book, to this 11th edition of a reader suitable for a broad range of undergraduate and graduate courses, including communication courses, courses concerned with issues related to human interaction, and courses in areas such as anthropology, health care, sociology, business, and international relations. Another new feature of this edition is the inclusion of a new chapter examining the topic of cultural identity and its role in human interaction. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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This anthology contains 44 readings that introduce practices and theories essential to communicating with people from other cultures and communicating within subcultures in the US. This tenth edition offers 28 new essays, 15 of them written for this anthology, including a new reading on communication codes between Israelite-Jews and Palestinians. Samovar is affiliated with San Diego State University. Porter is affiliated with California State University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Larry Samovar, Emeritus Professor at San Diego State University, received his Ph.D. from Purdue University, where he taught for five years. He has also been a visiting scholar at Nihon University in Japan. Additionally, Dr. Samovar has worked as a communication consultant in both the private and public sectors. He has presented over one hundred scholarly papers and conducted numerous seminars and workshops at international, national, and regional conferences. His publication list is extensive and encompasses books and articles on intercultural communication, small group communication, interpersonal communication, and public speaking. Many of his publications have been translated into foreign languages and are used in 11 countries. Professor Samovar remains active in the academic community and continues to research and write about intercultural and small group communication.

Richard E. Porter is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Communication Studies at California State University where he taught both undergraduate and graduate courses in intercultural communication. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California. He began his study of intercultural communication in 1967 before there was an established field of inquiry. His work was instrumental in helping establish a foundation and structure for the study of intercultural communication that is widely used today. He has been a co-editor and co-author of intercultural communication books with Larry Samovar since 1970 and with Edwin McDaniel since 2002.

Edwin R. McDaniel was most recently Professor of Intercultural Communication at Aichi Shukutoku University, in Japan, where he taught a variety of graduate and undergraduate classes on intercultural cultural communication and comparative Japan-U.S. culture. He has also been a Japan ICU Foundation Visiting Scholar at the International Christian University in Tokyo. He received his Ph.D. from Arizona State University and holds MA degrees in both Speech Communication and Asian History. Dr. McDaniel has taught intercultural courses at Arizona State University and San Diego State University, and he remains affiliated with the School of Communication at the latter. His recent publications include co-editing Intercultural Communication: A Reader (13th ed.), co-authoring Communication Between Cultures (7th ed.), and The Cultural Antecedents to Japanese and U.S. Negotiation" in Volume 7 of Freiberger Beitrége zur interkulturellen und Wirtschaftskommunikation . Additional publications include book chapters and journal articles related to culture and intercultural communication. His work has been published in China, Germany and Japan, and also includes numerous juried conference papers. Before beginning his academic career, Dr. McDaniel was in government service for over 20 years, during which time he lived, worked, and traveled in more than 40 countries. He has served as the Executive Coordinator of an international NGO focusing on communication between Japan and the U.S. In those positions, he prepared and presented a wide variety of written and oral presentation to government, corporate, and international representatives and executives. He continues to research a variety of issues related to Japanese—U.S. intercultural communication and divides his time between Japan and San Diego."