The Global Intercultural Communication Reader 2nd Edition, (Ebook PDF)

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0415521467
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0415521468
• Author: Molefi Kete Asante

The Global Intercultural Communication Reader is the first anthology to take a distinctly non-Eurocentric approach to the study of culture and communication. In this expanded second edition, editors Molefi Kete Asante, Yoshitaka Miike, and Jing Yin bring together thirty-two essential readings for students of cross-cultural, intercultural, and international communication. This stand-out collection aims to broaden and deepen the scope of the field by placing an emphasis on diversity, including work from authors across the globe examining the processes and politics of intercultural communication from critical, historical, and indigenous perspectives.

The collection covers a wide range of topics: the emergence and evolution of the field; issues and challenges in cross-cultural and intercultural inquiry; cultural wisdom and communication practices in context; identity and intercultural competence in a multicultural society; the effects of globalization; and ethical considerations. Many readings first appeared outside the mainstream Western academy and offer diverse theoretical lenses on culture and communication practices in the world community. Organized into five themed sections for easy classroom use, The Global Intercultural Communication Reader includes a detailed bibliography that will be a crucial resource for today’s students of intercultural communication.

Table contents:

Part I  The Emergence and Evolution of Intercultural Communication

1. Notes in the History of Intercultural Communication: The Foreign Service Institute and the Mandate for Intercultural Training

2. The Evolution of International Communication as a Field of Study: A Personal Reflection

3. The Centrality of Culture in the 20th and 21st Centuries

4. Theories of Culture and Communication

5. Mapping Cultural Communication Research: 1960s to the Present

6. Sojourning Through Intercultural Communication: A Retrospective

Part II Issues and Challenges in Cross-Cultural and Intercultural Inquiry

7. Afrocentricity: Toward a New Understanding of African Thought in the World

8. The Asiacentric Turn in Asian Communication Studies: Shifting Paradigms and Changing Perspectives

9. Indigenous and Authentic: Hawaiian Epistemology and the Triangulation of Meaning

10. The Four Seasons of Ethnography: A Creation-Centered Ontology for Ethnography

11. Encounters in the Third Space: Links Between Intercultural Communication Theories and Postcolonial Approaches

12. Thinking Dialectically About Culture and Communication

Part III Cultural Wisdom and Communication Practices in Context

13. Nommo, Kawaida, and Communicative Practice: Bringing Good Into the World

14. Ubuntu in South Africa: A Sociolinguistic Perspective to a Pan-African Concept

15. Communication and Cultural Settings: An Islamic Perspective

16. The Functions of Silence in India: Implications for Intercultural Communication Research

17. Language and Words: Communication in the Analects of Confucius

18. The Two Faces of Chinese Communication

Part IV Identity, Multiculturalism, and Intercultural Competence

19. Popular Culture and Public Imaginary: Disney vs. Chinese Stories of Mulan

20. The Mexican Diaspora: A Critical Examination of Signifiers

21. The Masculine–Feminine Construct in Cross-Cultural Research: The Emergence of a Transcendent Global Culture

22. Encounters With the “Other”: Personal Notes for a Reconceptualization of Intercultural Communication Competence

23. Applying a Critical Metatheoretical Approach to Intercultural Relations: The Case of U.S.–Japanese Communication

24. Superheroes in Shanghai: Constructing Transnational Western Men’s Identities

25. Beyond Multicultural Man: Complexities of Identity

26. Moving the Discourse on Identities in Intercultural Communication: Structure, Culture, and Resignifications

Part V  Globalization and Ethical Issues in Intercultural Relations

27. Ethnic Discourse and the New World Dysorder: A Communitarian Perspective

28. The Hegemony of English and Strategies for Linguistic Pluralism: Proposing the Ecology of Language Paradigm

29. Languages and Tribal Sovereignty: Whose Language Is It Anyway?

30. Development and Communication in Sri Lanka: A Buddhist Approach

31. Global Village vs. GandhianVillages: A Viable Vision

32. The Context of Dialogue: Globalization and Diversity