Cultural communication and intercultural contact / edited by Donal Carbaugh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carbaugh, Donal C.

Series:

Communication textbook series. Intercultural communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication and culture.

Intercultural communication.

Physical Description:

xix, 439 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Hillsdale, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1990.

Summary:

How is cultural identity accomplished interactively? What happens when different cultural identities contact one another? This book presents a series of papers, from classic essays to original expositions, which respond to these questions. The view of communication offered here -- rather than ignoring culture, or making it a variable in an equation -- is based on cultural patterns and situated communication practices, unveiling the multiplicity of factors involved in particular times and places. The contributors to this unusual volume represent a wide range of fields. Their equally diverse offerings will serve to clarify cultural distinctiveness in some communication phenomena, and lay groundwork for the identification of cross-cultural generalities in others.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0805807276

OCLC:

20636246