Theorizing About Intercultural Communication

Twenty-six international academics—all theorists whose theories are frequently cited in the literature on communication and culture—contribute 18 chapters covering the major theories in intercultural communication. For each theory, the author (or group of authors) explains the impetus behind its development, its scope, the underlying metatheoretical and theoretical assumptions, an historical overview of its development, its theoretical propositions, research that has been conducted to test the theory, and how the theory can be applied. For undergraduate and graduate courses in intercultural communication, communication theory, and cultural studies. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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.