The best learning comes from the best questions. When connecting with people, knowing how to ask questions is the gateway to gaining true insight into...

Intercultural Communication: A Contextual Approach introduces students to the fundamental topics, theories, concepts, and themes of intercultural communication. Best-selling author James W. Neuliep presents a clear...

This ground-breaking book is the first to describe in detail how teachers, supported by university educators and education advisers, might plan and implement innovative ideas...

Intercultural Competence: Interpersonal Communication Across Cultures, Eighth Edition gives students sufficient knowledge, appropriate motivations, and useful skills that enable them to experience how cultural differences can...

Intercultural Competence: Interpersonal Communication Across Cultures, Eighth Edition gives students sufficient knowledge, appropriate motivations, and useful skills that enable them to experience how cultural differences can...

The Politics of English: Conflict, Competition, Co-existence explores policies and practices that affect the use and position of English. The book discusses the ways in which...

Successful business communication is more than simply speaking your client’s language. At the heart of all effective communication lies a fundamental understanding of human behavior....

As people move into the new era of the twenty-first century, they will have more and more opportunities to communicate and interact with others using...

Innovative new book presenting intercultural theories and themes in an accessible style, facilitating an exploration of the many challenging and contemporary issues in our society...

What does it mean to be a global worker and a true citizen of the world” today? It goes beyond merely acknowledging cultural differences. In...

Communication and Language play a foundational role in the overall pursuit of equity and social justice in education. Rather, it travels the path less followed,...

Although intercultural concepts tend to essentialism and reductionism and thus run the risk of constructing artificial ethnic differences and stereotypes, the existing models are quite...

With the rapidly developing globalization of various sectors of modern life, individuals, organizations, and nations are becoming increasingly aware of the ways in which cultural...

A new textbook exploring communication in international management. Provides a comprehensive overview of the field, summarising the key theoretical perspectives and introducing students to the...

In a globalized world, discussions about migration and (inter)cultural identity call for a thorough analysis of the way in which people shape their cultural self-understanding....

Today, students are more familiar with other cultures than ever before because of the media, Internet, local diversity, and their own travels abroad. Using a...

The Handbook of Intergroup Communication brings together research, theory and application on traditional as well as innovative intergroup situations, exploring the communication aspect of these groups....

Metaphor and dialectic are modes of thinking that influence the ways in which we identify what we have in common with others, how we differ...

Chinese-Canadian conversations were video-taped and micro-analysed. Intriguing findings include the following. 1) The listeners recalled 50% of the information presented by the speakers. 2) Communication...

Culture and Public Relations explores the impact of culture – societal and organizational – through the global lens of public relations. Structuring the volume around three...

Language of Migration: Self- and Other-Representation of Korean Migrants in Germany analyzes a variety of genres that depict Korean migration in Germany.  By applying methods of media analysis,...

Unlikely Allies in the Academy brings the voices of women of Color and White women together for much-overdue conversations about race. These well-known contributors use narrative...

Intercultural dialogue is a concept and discourse that dates back to the 1980s. It is the major means for managing diversity and strengthening democracy within...

The global developments in Information Technology Enabled Services have transformed customer service encounters which were until recently face-to-face. The major business areas of healthcare, insurance,...

The concept of change-as opposed to continuity-is central to the increasing interest in digital media. However, this focus has not yet been matched by substantive...

Featuring several all-new chapters, revisions, and updates, the Second Edition of A Cultural Approach to Interpersonal Communication presents an interdisciplinary collection of key readings that explore how interpersonal...

The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation undertakes a comprehensive and systematic investigation of the moral and aesthetic questions that arise from the practice of cultural appropriation. Explores...

Child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Astrid Berg states in her introduction that “South Africa is a microcosm.” It is a modern nation, yet many of its...

This book explores communication, culture, and intercultural communication. The emphasis is on promoting understanding of and appreciation for the rich and varied perspectives encountered in...

This newly revised edition is both a lively introduction and practical guide to the main concepts and challenges of intercultural communication. Grounded in interactional sociolinguistics...

The informative and wide-ranging essays in this second volume of Borgo Perspectives on Intercultural Communication, by authors from Britain, Bulgaria, Germany, India, Russia and Spain,...

For far too long, the history of the modern era has been written as a history of isolated nation states. This book which presents both...

Pre-University Paper from the year 2011 in the subject Communications - Intercultural Communication, grade: 1,3, , language: English, abstract: The increasing internationalization and globalization has...

Document from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, language: English, abstract: As this research comes to its provisional...

One by one, the world has become a 'global village' with multicultural societies, where it is unavoidable for us to get in greater contact with...

This training program is especially targeted for American university students, but all exchange students, people on business and tourists can use this information to prepare...

Given the consolidated position of English as the international language for communication in business and management, this book depicts a wide scenario in which to...

In the context of intercultural communication, non-native and native speakers interact with each other and often make use of idioms and other fixed expressions as...

This book views the international university as a microcosm of a world where internationalization does not equate with across-the-board use of English, but rather with...

In Intercultural Communication, the authors draw on their deep intercultural experience to show us how to build successful communication bridges across diverse cultures. The book explores...

This is the first monograph to examine mediated business interaction in Spanish. It focuses on communication between native speakers of Spanish from different Spanish-speaking countries...

It is easy to argue that the need for attention to how we navigate rhetorically within and across cultures has never been greater, given ever-increasing...

Despite the growing presence of intercultural couples in the United States and worldwide, their stories often go untold. In Intercultural Couples, Jill Bystydzienski provides a...

As university student exchanges provide participants with increasing opportunities to involve themselves in different academic cultures, it has become crucial to gain a better understanding...

Perception and Communication in Intercultural Spaces explores the ways in which cultural values and beliefs influence communication. It captures intercultural communication in everyday contexts by introducing...

In today's integrated global economy, technical communicators often collaborate in international production teams, work with experts in overseas subject matter, or coordinate documentation for the...

This book demonstrates that culture and language are closely intertwined and argues that they need to be taught simultaneously from the very beginning of acquiring...

Intercultural communication and the inquiry to improve international understanding. What do communication and culture actually mean? How do people communicate and in which way can...

The purpose of this book is to help readers understand how race and culture can impact communication. More, specifically, the author explores the ways in...

The presented book deals with the central topic international and intercultural public relations and has the aim of finding answers to the questions: how does...

Despite the central role that intercultural sensitivity plays in foreign student advising, the intercultural sensitivity of foreign student advisors has never been previously been studied....

Language is key to understanding culture, and culture is an essential part of studying language. This reader focuses on the interplay between Language and Intercultural...

This book bears good news from the front of INTERCULTURAL LIFELONG LEARNING at a time of global economic uncertainty and recession. A learning revolution in...

In an increasingly interdependent world, the ability to communicate, empathize and interact across geographical and cultural boundaries is essential for effective living. The Outsourced Intercultural...

This book critically examines the main features of intercultural communication. It addresses how ideology permeates intercultural processes and develops an alternative ′grammar′ of culture. It...

The growth of U.S. and Mexican business relations, particularly as the result of the NAFTA, have created the need for corporations to provide their business...

"Culture is more often a source of conflict than of synergy. Cultural differences are a nuisance at best and often a disaster." (Prof. Geert Hofstede,...

Written in a highly accessible style and in four parts, this book provides rapid and authoritative access to current ideas and practice in intercultural communication....

Cultural intelligence is defined as an individual's ability to function effectively in situations characterized by cultural diversity. With contributions from eminent scholars worldwide, the "Handbook...

In the last fifty years, Korea has transformed itself from an agrarian, Confucian-based culture into a global and technological powerhouse, and one of the most...