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The Global Intercultural Communication Reader

Edited by Molefi Kete Asante, Yoshitaka Miike, Jing Yin

Published October 16th 2007 by Routledge – 348 pages

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Ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in intercultural communication, The Global Intercultural Communication Reader is the first comprehensive anthology to take a distinctly non-Eurocentric approach to analyzing and appreciating the diverse ways of communicating in different cultures, and incorporates African and Asian as well as Western perspectives. The volume’s international scope aims to expand and enlarge the field by promoting greater engagement with the closely related field of international communication.

Featuring twenty readings by prominent intercultural and international communication scholars, The Global Intercultural Communication Reader is edited by Molefi Kete Asante, one of the founders of the field of intercultural communication, along with international scholars Yoshitaka Miike and Jing Yin. The field of intercultural communication seeks to understand the process of communicating across cultural boundaries with an aim toward promoting positive relations between different cultures and nations.

Contents

Introduction

Molefi Kete Asante

Yoshitaka Miike

Jing Yin

Part I Perspectives on Culture in Theory and Research

1 Concepts of "culture": Implications for intercultural communication research

Dreama G. Moon

2 Ethical implications of the ethnic "text" in multicultural communication studies

Dolores V. Tanno

3 The centrality of culture

Robert Shuter

Part II Metatheoretical Frameworks for Future Directions

4 The ideological significance of Afrocentricity in intercultural communication

Molefi Kete Asante

5 Toward an alternative metatheory of human communication: An Asiacentric Vision

Yoshitaka Miike

6 Thinking dialectically about culture and communication

Judith N. Martin & Thomas K. Nakayama

Part III Contextual Approaches to Culture and Communication

7 Language and words: Communication in the Analects of Confucius

Hui-Ching Chang

8 Ubuntu in South Africa: A sociolinguistic perspective to a pan-African concept

Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu

9 Constructing the Other: A critical reading of The Joy Luck Club

Jing Yin

10 The four seasons of ethnography: A creation-centered ontology for ethnography

Maria Cristina González

Part IV Impact of Globalization on Intercultural Communication

11 The hegemony of English and strategies for linguistic pluralism: Proposing the Ecology of Language Paradigm

Yukio Tsuda

12 The intersecting hegemonic discourses of an Asian mail-order bride catalog: Pilipina "Oriental Butterfly" dolls for sale

Rona Tamiko Halualani

13 Currents in history, cultural domination, and mass communication in the Caribbean

Humphrey A. Regis

Part V Identity and Intercultural Communication Competence

14 Intercultural communication competence: A Synthesis

Guo-Ming Chen & William J. Starosta

15 Beyond multicultural man: Complexities of identity

Lise M. Sparrow

16 Applying a critical metatheoretical approach to intercultural relations: The case of U.S.-Japanese communication

William Kelly

Part VI Ethical Considerations in Intercultural Communication

17 Theoretical perspectives on Islam and communication

Hamid Mowlana

18 Ethics and the discourse on ethics in post-colonial India

Anantha Sudhaker Babbili

19 Peace and the Middle East

Edward W. Said

20 Mutual learning as an agenda for social development.

Weiming Tu

Author Bio

Molefi Kete Asante is Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Temple University. He has published more than 60 scholarly books and 300 journal and maganize articles. His most recent books include Erasing Racism: The Survival of the American Nation, The History of Africa: The Quest for Eternal Harmony, and Race, Rhetoric, and Identity: The Architecton of Soul.

Yoshitaka Miike is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Hawai‘i, Hilo. He received a 2004 Distinguished Scholarship Award from the International and Intercultural Communication Division of the National Communication Association for the 2003 Outstanding Article of the Year.

Jing Yin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Hawai‘i, Hilo. Her research interests include the impact of globalization, media discourse and representation, and non-Western feminist discourse.

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Description: Edited by Molefi Kete Asante, Yoshitaka Miike, Jing Yin. Ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in intercultural communication, The Global Intercultural Communication Reader is the first comprehensive anthology to take a distinctly non-Eurocentric approach to analyzing and appreciating the diverse ways...
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