Communication between cultures
From the Publisher: Communication between cultures helps you develop practical skills for improving your communicaiton with people from other cultures and provides a unique focus on the deep structure of culture, emphasizing the roles that family, religion, and history play in intercultural communic...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston, Massachusetts :
Wardsworth/Cengage Learning ,
c2013
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| Edition: | 8th ed |
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Table of Contents:
- 1.Intercultural Communication: Interaction in a multicultural world
- 2. Communication and culture: The voice and the echo
- 3. The deep structure of culture: Lessons from the family
- 4. Cultural history: Our antecedents
- 5. Worldview: Cultural explanations of life and death
- 6. Cultural values: Guidelines for behavior
- 7. Culture and identify: Situating the individual
- 8. Verbal messages: Exchanging ideas through language
- 9. Nonverbal communication: The messages of action, space, time, and silence
- 10. Cultural influences on communication contexts: Responding to the setting