Understanding Intercultural Communication

By Stella Ting-Toomey and Leeva C. Chung

Book Overview

Written in a conversational style, this book introduces students to the foundations of intercultural communication, a vibrant discipline within the field. Authors Stella Ting-Toomey and Leeva Chung take a multicontextual, inclusive approach that balances international and intercultural communication issues against U.S. domestic diversity issues. In addition to emphasizing a value-oriented perspective on intercultural encounters, the text contains a robust ethical chapter, complete with specific guidelines that will help students become ethical intercultural communicators.

By integrating current empirical research with lively intercultural examples, the authors ask thought-provoking questions and pose ethical dilemmas for students to ponder. The text offers a sprawling treatment of such topics as ethnic and cultural identity change, culture shock and intercultural adjustment, romantic relationships and raising bicultural children, global identity challenges, and decision-making choices in intercultural ethics.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019973979X
• ISBN13: 9780199739790
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Text book

Sometimes professors make it seem like the text book is dire for the class, and it is only after the semester that the student realizes they didn’t even open it. This is one of those books. I am sure it is great, but I could have saved some money because I didn’t even read it for this class, and once I get over that hurdle emotionally I will maybe read it on my own.