Synopsis

Fred E. Jandt’s An Introduction to Intercultural Communication: Identities in a Global Community, Fourth Edition and his accompanying reader, Intercultural Communication: A Global Reader are now available at a 15% package discount!

Going beyond an "American" assessment of the field, An Introduction to Intercultural Communication assumes that no culture is privileged over another, be that culture from across the globe or a subculture or subgroup around the corner. Issues of identity, nationality, assimilation, and inter-group relations promote appreciation of diversity among people. Author Fred E. Jandt walks students through the key concepts of communication and culture, addressing such topics as: barriers in intercultural communication; dimensions of culture; multiculturalism; women, family, and children; and culture’s influence on perception. For more information on the Text, please click here http://www.sagepub.com/book.aspx?pid=9630.

Intercultural Communication: A Global Reader contains 36 articles showcasing the development and diversity of intercultural communication theories in countries such as China, Africa, the United States, New Zealand, Mexico, Egypt, and others. Themes and topics discussed include identity and communication, intercultural verbal and nonverbal processes and interactions, relationships, and ethics. For more information on the Reader, please click here http://www.sagepub.com/book.aspx?pid=9579.

Booknews

New edition of an introductory text designed to help students build effective communication skills. Offers updated and expanded coverage of gender and culture, values and theories, and WWW links. Twenty chapters discuss culture as context for communication, communication variables, cultural values, cultures within cultures, and the future. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Biography

Fred E. Jandt (Ph.D., Bowling Green State University) is Professor of Communication at CSU San Bernardino. He was a visiting professor at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and has also taught at SUNY-Brockport (where he became SUNY’s first director of faculty development). For SAGE, he is the author of a best-selling introductory textbook, An Introduction to Intercultural Communication: Identities in a Global Community, 4/e (2004), and the editor of Intercultural Communication: A Global Reader (2004); in addition, he’s also the author of Win-Win Negotiating (1985, Wiley; translated into 7 languages), Effective Interviewing for Paralegals, 2/e (1994, Anderson), Straight Answers to People Problems (1993, McGraw-Hill), Conflict Resolution through Communication (1975, Harper Collins) and co-editor of Constructive Conflict Management: Asia-Pacific Cases (1996). He attends and presents at major national and international conferences.