Intercultural Communication Theory: Current Perspectives (International and Intercultural Communication Annual) - Softcover

Gudykunst, William B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803919700 ISBN 13: 9780803919709

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1983

Synopsis

The seventh volume of the distinguished series International and Intercultural Communication Annuals is published for the first time by SAGE. It is also the first volume to be presented in a new format: theme-oriented volumes that examine key issues in intercultural communication. Twenty four leaders in the field contribute original essays that review the progress made toward developing theories of intercultural communication. Theories based on traditional communication perspectives, new theories that are unique to this new emerging discipline, and contributions from such areas as philosophy, social psychology and linguistics are described.

`If one were to offer a seminar designed to take stock of theory in intercultural co

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0803919700
• ISBN 13: 9780803919709
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 298