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An Introduction to Intercultural Communication Fred E. Jandt

An Introduction to Intercultural Communication By Fred E. Jandt

An Introduction to Intercultural Communication by Fred E. Jandt


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Challenges students to develop cultural competency by developing an understanding of how we perceive and react to cultural rules, not only those of others, but also our own. This book assumes that no culture is privileged over another, be that culture from across the globe or a subculture or subgroup around the corner.

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An Introduction to Intercultural Communication: Identities in a Global Community by Fred E. Jandt

It is often said that you cannot choose your family, but you can choose your friends. The same notion can be applied to culture in that we do not choose which culture to belong to but are simply born into one - one that shapes our attitudes, our behaviors, and our perceptions. The Fourth Edition of Fred Jandt's text An Introduction to Intercultural Communication: Identities in a Global Community challenges students to develop cultural competency by developing an understanding of how we perceive and react to cultural rules - not only those of others, but also our own.

Going beyond an `American' assessment of the field, An Introduction to Intercultural Communication assumes that no culture is privileged over another, be that culture from across the globe or a subculture or subgroup around the corner. Issues of identity, nationality, assimilation, and inter-group relations promote appreciation of diversity among people. Fred E. Jandt walks students through the key concepts of communication and culture, addressing such topics as: barriers in intercultural communication; dimensions of culture; multiculturalism; women, family, and children; and culture's influence on perception.

About Fred E. Jandt

Fred E. Jandt was born of second-generation German immigrants in the multicultural south-central region of Texas. After graduating from Texas Lutheran University and Stephen F. Austin State University, he received his doctorate in communication from Bowling Green State University. He has taught and been a student of intercultural communication for more than 40 years, developing his experience through travel and international training and research projects. While professor of communication at The College at Brockport, State University of New York, his reputation as a teacher led to his appointment as SUNY's first director of faculty development. He has retired as professor and branch campus dean after having been named outstanding professor. He has also been a visiting professor at Victoria University of Wellington, in New Zealand. He has extensive experience in the areas of intercultural and international communication, negotiation, mediation, and conflict management. He was one of the first scholars to introduce the study of conflict to the communication discipline with his text Conflict Resolution Through Communication (Harper & Row, 1973). He has subsequently published many other titles in this area, including the successful trade book Win-Win Negotiating: Turning Conflict Into Agreement (Wiley, 1985), which has been translated into eight languages; a casebook on international conflict management, Constructive Conflict Management: Asia-Pacific Cases (SAGE, 1996) with Paul B. Pedersen; and Conflict and Communication (SAGE, 2017). For several years, he conducted the training workshop Managing Conflict Productively for major corporations and government agencies throughout the United States. Jandt continues to train volunteers who are learning to become mediators in the California justice system and served as an elected trustee of the Desert Community College District.

Table of Contents

To the Student To the Instructor PART I: CULTURE AS A CONTEXT FOR COMMUNICATION Ch. 1 The Dispute Over Defining Culture Ch. 2 Defining Communication as an Element of Culture Ch. 3 Culture's Influence on Perception PART II: COMMUNICATION VARIABLES Ch 4. Barriers to Intercultural Communication Ch. 5 Stereotypes and Prejudice as Barriers Ch. 6 Nonverbal Communication Ch. 7 Language as a Barrier PART III: CULTURAL VALUES Ch. 8 Dimensions of Culture Ch. 9 Dominant United States Cultural Patterns: Using Value Orientation Theory Ch.10 Comparative Cultural Patterns: Arabian Culture Ch. 11 Women, Families, and Children Ch. 12 Contact Between Cultures PART IV: CULTURES WITHIN CULTURES Ch. 13 Immigration and Acculturation Ch.14 Forces Against Assimilation Ch. 15 Forces to Conform to One Cultural Identity Ch. 16 Reclaiming a Culture Ch. 17 Identity and Subgroups Ch.18 Multiculturalism Index About the Author

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CIN0761928472G
9780761928478
0761928472
An Introduction to Intercultural Communication: Identities in a Global Community by Fred E. Jandt
Used - Good
Paperback
SAGE Publications Inc
20030828
480
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