CHAPTER ONE IntrOductiOn
1 Importance of Intercultural Communication
1.1 The New Technology
1.2 The New Population
1.3 The New Economic Arena
2 Studying Intercultural Communication
3 Intercultural Communication
3.1 Host and Minority Cultures
3.2 Subcultures (Co-cultures)
3.3 Muhicuhuralism
3.4 Cross.cultural Communication
3.5 Principles of Intercultural Communication
3.6 Rationale
3.7 Approach
3.8 Philosophy
Exercises
Bibliography and Further Reading
CHAPTER TWO Language Use and Communication
1 Human Comnlunication
1.1 Intentional and Unintentional Behavior
1.2 A Definition of Communication
1.3 The Components of Communication
2 Pragmatics:Language Use
2.1 The Problem
2.2 The Message Model of Linguistic Communication
2.3 Problems with the Message Model
2.4 An Inferential Approach to Communication
2.5 Inferential Theories versus the Message Model
3 The Characteristics Of Comnlunication
3.1 No Direct Mind-to-Mind Contact
3.2 We Can Only Infer
3.3 Communication Is Symbolic
3.4 Time-Binding Links Us Together
3.5 We Seek to Define the World
3.6 Communication Has a Consequence
3.7 Communication Is Dynamic
3.8 Communication Is ContextuaI
3.9 Communication Is Self-Reflective
4 The Brain Is an Open System
5 We Are Alike and We Are Different
Exercises
Bibliography and Further Reading
CHAPTER THREE Culture and Communication
1 Culture Is our Invisible Teacher
1.1 The Basic Functions of Culture
1.2 Some Definitions of Culture
1.3 The Characteristics of Culture
2 Language and Culture
3 Teaching Culture
4 Forms of Intercultural Communication
5 An Intercultural Commnnication Model
6 Elements of Intercultural Commnnication
6.1 Perception
6.2 Verbal Processes
6.3 Nonverbal Processes
Exercises
Bibliography and Further Reading
CHAPTER FOUR Cultural Diversity in Perception
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CHAPTER FIVE The Deep Structure of Culture
CHAPTER SIX Cross-cultural Pragmatics
CHAPTER SEVEN Words and Meanings
CHAPTER EIGHT Nonverbal Communication