Intercultural Communication

, by Rogers, Everett M.; Steinfatt, Thomas M.

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Copyright: 8/1/1998

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Preface

xiii

Acknowledgments

Context and Contact

(38)

Why Study Intercultural Communication?

(1)

Collective Cultural Consciousness

(1)

Increasing Intercultural Contact

(3)

The Spread of Islam

(1)

The Crusades

(4)

Genghis Khan and the Mongols

(9)

Ogadai Khan

(3)

Kublai Khan

(2)

Marco Polo

(2)

Colonialism

(1)

Cortes and Montezuma

(1)

The Slave Trade

(5)

The Early Missionaries

(1)

The Opium Wars

(2)

Native Americans

(7)

Summary

(1)

The Study of Intercultural Communication

(40)

The Roots of Intercultural Communication

(8)

What Is a Stranger?

(3)

The Stranger and Scientific Objectivity

(1)

The Concept of Social Distance

(1)

The Concept of Marginal Man

(1)

The Concept of Heterophily

(1)

Cosmopoliteness

(1)

Critical Concepts in Intercultural Communication

(2)

Ingroups and Outgroups

(1)

The Left-Handed Ingroup

(10)

Ethnocentrism

(5)

Cultural Relativism

(1)

Prejudice and Discrimination

(3)

Stereotypes

(1)

The Authoritarian Personality

(1)

Intercultural Communication after World War II

(11)

Development Assistance

(1)

The Ugly American

(1)

The Foreign Service Institute

(1)

Edward Hall, Founder

(4)

Time Talks and Space Speaks

(3)

Forming a Paradigm of Intercultural Communication

(4)

Non-Western Perspectives on Intercultural Communication

(2)

Summary

(3)

Culture

(34)

What Is Culture?

(3)

Beliefs, Attitudes, and Values

(1)

Cultural Beliefs

(1)

Hmong Spirits versus Western Medicine

(4)

Cultural Values and Cultural Attitudes

(1)

Norms

(1)

Collectivistic versus Individualistic Cultures

(4)

The Nature of the Self

(1)

Independence versus Interdependence at the Individual Level

(1)

High-Context versus Low-Context Cultures

(5)

High/Low-Context Communication Problems

(3)

Are You High-Context or Low-Context?

(1)

Within versus Between Cultural Variation

(1)

Cultural Clash

(1)

Cultural Identification

(1)

Female Genital Mutilation in the United States

(1)

AIDS Prevention in San Francisco

(4)

Cultural Markers

100

(2)

Language and Cultural Identification

102

(1)

Cultural Markers

103

(1)

The Homeless and Pen in Santa Monica

104

(5)

The Continuum of Intercultural Differences

105

(2)

Overcoming Cultural Differences

107

(2)

The Cultural Shareability of Elvis Presley

109

(2)

Summary

111

(2)

Communication

113

(22)

What Is Communication?

113

(4)

A Model of Communication

114

(3)

Navajo Code-Talkers

117

(3)

Initial Contact and Uncertainty among Strangers

120

(4)

Uncertainty and Information

120

(2)

Initiating Conversation with a Stranger

122

(2)

Don't You Want to Go to the Rat?

124

(1)

Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Communication

125

(2)

Signs and Symbols

126

(1)

Language

126

(1)

The Rosetta Stone

127

(5)

Creating Meanings

128

(1)

Levels of Meaning

129

(2)

Attribution

131

(1)

From Intercultural Interaction to International Incident

132

(1)

Power

133

(1)

Summary

133

(2)

Verbal Communication

135

(26)

Linguistic Relativity

135

(7)

Examples of the Whorfian Hypothesis

138

(3)

Importance of Language

141

(1)

The Language Police in Quebec

142

(2)

Perceptions Count

144

(1)

Perceptions versus Objective Reality

145

(1)

Perceptions of Body Weight by African-American and White Adolescent Girls

145

(4)

Symbolic Interaction

148

(1)

Code-Switching

148

(1)

Cultural Factors in Interpersonal Communication

149

(6)

Talk and Silence

150

(1)

Speaking Style

151

(1)

Turn-Taking

152

(1)

Self-Disclosure

152

(1)

Content versus Relationship

153

(1)

Face

154

(1)

The Guest Who Came to Dinner, in Japan

155

(2)

Listening

157

(1)

Summary

158

(3)

Nonverbal Communication

161

(28)

Importance of Nonverbal Communication

162

(3)

The Meaning of Feet in Intercultural Negotiation

165

(2)

The Evolution of Nonverbal Communication

167

(4)

Charles Darwin

168

(2)

Edward Hall at the FSI

170

(1)

Raymond Birdwhistell

170

(1)

Cultural Factors in Nonverbal Communication

171

(1)

Types of Nonverbal Communication

172

(14)

Body Movements

172

(4)

Space

176

(5)

Time

181

(1)

Touch

182

(2)

Voice

184

(1)

Artifacts

184

(1)

Physical Appearance

185

(1)

The Truth about Lying

186

(1)

Cultural Misunderstandings in Nonverbal Communication

186

(1)

Summary

187

(2)

Assimilation, Mass Communication, and Sojourning

189

(32)

Assimilation and Acculturation

190

(3)

Early Research on Mass Communication and Culture

190

(1)

The Continuum from Assimilation to Cultural Maintenance

191

(2)

Maintaining a Distinctive Culture: The Gypsies

193

(2)

Changing Demographics

194

(1)

Ethnic Media in New York City

195

(7)

Ethnic Groups in the United States

196

(3)

The Role of Language in Cultural Maintenance

199

(2)

Networks in the Assimilation Process

201

(1)

Contemporary Migration to America

202

(2)

The Policy Issue of Immigration

204

(3)

The Role of the Media

207

(4)

Bias in the Media

208

(2)

Impacts of the Mass Media

210

(1)

The Sojourner

211

(1)

Culture Shock

212

(5)

The U-Curve of Cultural Adjustment

214

(3)

Reentry

217

(1)

You Gotta Have Wa

217

(2)

Summary

219

(2)

Becoming More Intercultural

221

(22)

Intercultural Competence

221

(2)

Overcoming Ethnocentrism

223

(4)

Experiential Training

224

(1)

Cultural Relativism

225

(1)

From Ethnocentrism to Ethnorelativism

226

(1)

Overcoming Stereotypes

227

(1)

Derivation of Stereotypes

227

(1)

Stereotypes as Codes

228

(1)

Overcoming as Codes

228

(3)

Overcoming Prejudice and Discrimination

230

(1)

Prejudice

230

(1)

Discrimination

231

(1)

A Navajo Perspective on Prejudice

232

(5)

Overcoming Conflict

237

(1)

Toward Multiculturalism

238

(2)

Summary

240

(3)

The Global Village

243

(22)

Development Programs in Third World Countries

243

(4)

What Is Development?

244

(1)

What Is Development Communication?

244

(2)

Change Agent/Client Heterophily

246

(1)

Introducing Water-Boiling in a Peruvian Village

247

(4)

Sustainability of Development Programs

248

(1)

Empowerment

249

(2)

Thrown Out on the Edge of Asia

251

(3)

Mass Media and Development

253

(1)

The Ethics of Changing Someone Else's Culture

254

(1)

Rise of the Megacity

255

(2)

Los Angeles as a Cultural Mosaic

257

(1)

The Global Business Village of Today

258

(1)

Nemawashi: Digging around the Roots

259

(2)

Gift-Giving around the World

261

(2)

Toward a Global Culture

263

(2)

Glossary

265

(6)

References

271

(14)

Name Index

285

(4)

Subject Index

289

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Intercultural Communication

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