Table of Contents

PART ONE: OVERVIEW
On Theorizing Intercultural Communication - Young Kun Kim
A Taxonomic Approach to Intercultural Communication - Larry E Sarbaugh
PART TWO: CULTURE AND MEANING
A Constructivist Theory of Communication and Culture - James L Applegate and Howard E Sypher
Coordinated Management of Meaning - Vernon E Cronen, Victoria Chen, and W Barnett Pearce
A Critical Theory
Cultural Identity - Mary Jane Collier and Milt Thomas
An Interpretive Perspective
PART THREE: INTERCULTURAL BEHAVIOR
Uncertainty and Anxiety - William B Gudykunst
Communication Accommodation in Intercultural Encounters - Cynthia Gallois, Arlene Franklyn-Stokes, Howard Giles, and Nikolas Coupland
Episode Representations in Intercultural Communication - Joseph P Forgas
Intercultural Conflict Styles - Stella Ting-Toomey
A Face-Negotiation Theory
PART FOUR: INTERCULTURAL ADAPTATION
Network Theory in Intercultural Communication - June Ock Yum
A Theory of Adaptation in Intercultural Dyads - Huber W Ellingsworth
The Convergence Theory and Intercultural Communication - D Lawrence Kincaid
Intercultural Transformation - Young Kun Kim and Brent D Ruben
A Systems Theory

About the Author

William B. Gudykunst (Ph.D., Minnesota, 1977) is Professor of Speech Communication at the College of Communications, California State University, Fullerton. Bill has written and edited numerous works for SAGE, including the Handbook of Intercultural and International Communication, 2/e, and Bridging Differences: Effective Intergroup Communication, 3/e as well as the best-selling introductory undergraduate texts Building Bridges: Interpersonal Skills for a Changing World (Houghton Mifflin) and Communicating with Strangers: An Approach to Intercultural Communication, 3/e (McGraw-Hill). He is extremely well known in the discipline and is one of its most prolific writers/scholars in the areas of intercultural communication and human communication theory.