Communicating Across Cultures

This highly regarded text--now revised and expanded with 50% new material--helps students and professionals build their knowledge and competencies for effective intercultural communication in any setting. The authors' comprehensive, updated theoretical framework (integrative identity negotiation theory) reveals how both verbal and nonverbal communication are affected by multilayered facets of identity. Written in a candid, conversational style, the book is rich with engaging examples illustrating cultural conflicts and misunderstandings that arise in workplace, educational, interpersonal, and community contexts. Readers learn how to transform polarized conversations into successful intercultural engagements by combining knowledge about culture with mindful listening and communication skills.
 
New to This Edition
*Extensively revised to reflect the ongoing development of integrative identity negotiation theory, nearly 20 years of research advances, the growing diversity of the United States, and global trends.
*Chapter providing a mindfulness lens on intercultural and intergroup communication competence.
*Chapter on culture shock in sojourners (international students, global businesspeople, and others).
*Chapter on immigrants' acculturation processes.
*Lively chapter-opening case examples, including compelling personal stories.
*End-of-chapter summaries, "Mindful Guidelines" to put into practice, and critical thinking questions.
*New and expanded discussions of hot topics: cross-cultural workplaces, community building, peace building, romantic relationships, prejudice and discrimination, microaggressions, and ethical issues. 

I. Conceptual Foundations and Contextual Settings
1. Intercultural Communication: An Introduction
2. Intercultural–Intergroup Engagement: An Integrative Identify Negotiation Theory Framework
3. Sojourners’ Culture Shock and Intercultural Adjustment Patterns
4. Immigrants’ Acculturation Process and Intergroup Contacts
II. Navigating Intercultural and Intergroup Communication with Mindfulness
5. Developing Intercultural and Intergroup Communication Competence: A Mindfulness Lens
6. Cultural Value Dimensions and Intercultural Encounters
7. Mindful Intercultural Verbal Communication
8. Mindful Intercultural Nonverbal Communication
III. Boundary Regulation and Intercultural–Intergroup Relationship Development Processes
9. Understanding Intergroup Perceptual Filters, Biases, and Communicative Distance
10. Attending to Intercultural and Intergroup Conflict Issues
11. Attuning to Intercultural–Intimate Relationship Development Processes
12. Becoming Ethical Intercultural Practitioners and Improving Communication Practices
Appendix A. Researching Intercultural and Intergroup Communication: Three Paradigms and Conflict Studies Examples
Appendix B. “Be Surprised and Also Holding On!”: Honors Convocation Keynote Speech, May 22, 2009, Stella Ting-Toomey
Appendix C. “Never Give Up!”: Commencement Speech, May 21, 2017, Tenzin Dorjee
References
Author Index
Subject Index