The Cambridge Introduction to Intercultural Communication

Guido Rings is Emeritus Professor of Postcolonial Studies, co-director of the Anglia Ruskin Research Centre for Intercultural and Multilingual Studies (ARRCIMS), and co-founder of iMex and German as a Foreign Language, the first internet journals in Europe for their respective fields. Professor Rings has widely published within different areas of critical intercultural and postcolonial studies. This includes, as editor, the acclaimed Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Communication (with S. M. Rasinger, Cambridge University Press, 2020) and, as author, the world-leading scoring The Other in Contemporary Migrant Cinema (Routledge, 2016) and the celebrated La Conquista desbaratada (The Conquest upside down, Iberoamericana, 2010), next to more than fifty distinguished refereed articles.

Ideal for undergraduate introductory courses as well as the training and coaching of practitioners in Intercultural Communication, International Communication and Cross-cultural Communication. Provides concise, up-to-date overviews of key topics, a variety of tasks, and eighteen case studies for in-depth discussions, homework, and assessments.

Preface; Part I. Introducing Intercultural Communication: 1. From culture to cultural identity concepts; 2. What is intercultural communication?; 3. Rethinking intercultural competence; Part II. Theories, Key Concepts and Approaches: 4. Critical intercultural communication and postcolonial studies; 5. Contrastive theories; 6. Imagological perspectives in literature and cinema; 7. Linguistic approaches to intercultural communication; 8. Anthropological perspectives; 9. Sociological approaches; 10. Psychological perspectives; 11. Raising intercultural awareness through storytelling; Part III. Application: 12. Communicating in the digital sphere; 13. Migration and intercultural communication; 14. Intercultural business communication; 15. Intercultural communication in health services; 16. Enhancing intercultural competence in military services; 17. Intercultural competence revisited: development and assessment; 18. Reflections on the future of intercultural communication; Glossary.