Intercultural Communication

Jandt's (California State U., San Bernardino) text can be used as a stand-alone volume, as a companion to his textbook, An Introduction to Intercultural Communication: Identities in a Global Community, Fourth Edition, or with other texts. Designed for use in an introductory intercultural communications course, it contains 36 selections by researchers from throughout the world, on intercultural communication constructs and theories in the areas of cultural values, language, identities, peaceful coexistence, and colonization and globalization. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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New edition of an introductory text designed to help students build effective communication skills. Offers updated and expanded coverage of gender and culture, values and theories, and WWW links. Twenty chapters discuss culture as context for communication, communication variables, cultural values, cultures within cultures, and the future. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Fred E. Jandt (Ph.D., Bowling Green State University) is Professor of Communication at CSU San Bernardino. He was a visiting professor at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and has also taught at SUNY-Brockport (where he became SUNY's first director of faculty development). For SAGE, he is the author of a best-selling introductory textbook, An Introduction to Intercultural Communication:  Identities in a Global Community, 4/e (2004), and the editor of Intercultural Communication:  A Global Reader (@004); in addition, he's also the author of Win-Win Negotiating (1985, Wiley; translated into 7 languages), Effective Interviewing for Paralegals, 2/e (1994, Anderson), Straight Answers to People Problems (1993, McGraw-Hill), Conflict Resolution through Communication (1975, Harper Collins) and co-editor of Constructive Conflict Management: Asia-Pacific Cases (1996). He attends and presents at major national and international conferences.