Ferment in the intercultural field : axiology/value/praxis / editors, William J. Starosta, Guo-Ming Chen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Starosta, William J.

Chen, Guo-Ming.

Series:

International and intercultural communication annual ; v. 26.

International and intercultural communication annual ; v. 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intercultural communication--Research.

Intercultural communication.

Intercultural communication--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

ix, 305 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, [2003]

Summary:

Ferment in the Intercultural Field: Axiology/Value/Praxis, Volume 26 of The International and Intercultural Communication Annual examines how the field of intercultural communication has encouraged new techniques in the area of research. Editors William J. Starosta and Guo-Ming Chen, along with a diverse group of distinguished contributors, recall the 1983 topical issue of The Journal of Communication that reported a critical turn and a shift of paradigms in communication research.

Recommended for scholars and researchers in the area of intercultural communication, Ferment in the Intercultural Field is also a vital resource for upper-level undergraduate and graduate communication students.

Contents:

Section 1. Toward a fifth moment in intercultural communication research. "Ferment," an ethic of caring, and the corrective power of dialogue / William J. Starosta and Guo-Ming Chen. A postmodern critique of cross-cultural and intercultural communication research: contesting essentialism, positivist dualism and eurocentricity / Rueyling Chuang

Section 2. Ethics and axiology in intercultural communication. Intercultural communication as a social problem in a globalized context: ethics of praxis research techniques / W.F. Santiago-Valles. Discord in intercultural negotiation: toward an ethic of communicability / Andrew R. Smith

Section 3. Cultural communication in historical context. Communication markers of at-risk Southeast Asian refugee youth / Steven C. Combs and Kerry A. Causey. Academic witnessing, French cultures, and the echoes of Holocaust memories / Marouf Hasian, Jr.

Section 4. Identity negotiation in dealings with the other. White positionalities and cultural contracts: critiquing entitlement, theorizing and exploring the negotiation of white identities / Ronald L. Jackson II and Katherine Simpson. A review of identity research in communication theory: reconceptualizing cultural identity / Chang In Shin and Ronald L. Jackson, II

Section 5. On alternative centrisms. Beyond Eurocentrism in the intercultural field: searching for an Asiacentric paradigm / Yoshitaka Miike. On theorizing

difference: culture as centrism / William J. Starosta and Guo-Ming Chen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0761929029

0761929037

OCLC:

51558991