Cross-Cultural and Intercultural Communication (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780761929000)

Derived from the best-selling Handbook of International and Intercultural Communication, Second Edition, this economically priced paperback version contains only the chapters dealing with cross-cultural and intercultural communication. Cross-Cultural and Intercultural Communication provides an extensive overview of cross-cultural variations in communication and expands upon the Handbook by viewing intercultural communication in terms of intergroup communication.

Intercultural communication is a relatively new area of research in the communication discipline but has made tremendous progress in recent years. The book maintains that understanding cross-cultural communication is a prerequisite to understanding intercultural communication. Part One of the book discusses cross-cultural communication--the comparison of communication across cultures--and Part Two examines intercultural communication--the communication between people from different cultures. Each part begins with an introduction, includes a chapter on theory, and ends with a chapter on issues.