Communicating With Strangers: An Approach to Intercultural Communication - Softcover

Gudykunst, William; Kim, Young Yun

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071195378 ISBN 13: 9780071195379

Verlag: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2002

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This successful intercultural communication text provides a comprehensive overview of important theory and research in intercultural communication. Communicating with Strangers looks at the basic processes of intercultural communication and ties those processes to the practical task of creating understanding between people of different cultures, backgrounds and communication patterns.

Biografía del autor:

William B. Gudykunst is a professor speech communication at California State University, Fullerton. He received his B.S. and M.A. degrees in sociology from Arizona State University. After completing his M.A., Bill spent three years in the U.S. Navy stationed in Yokosuka, Japan. He became interested in intercultural communication while working as an Intercultural Relations Specialist in the Navy. After being released from active duty, Bill went to the University of Minnesota, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1977. Bill’s work focuses on developing a theory of interpersonal and intergroup effectiveness that can be applied to improving the quality of communication. Bill is the author of Bridging Differences (Sage, 1994) and coauthor of Cultural and Interpersonal Communication (with S. Ting-Tommey, Sage, 1988), Bridging Japanese/North American Differences (with T. Nishida, Sage, 1994), and Building Bridges (Houghton Mifflin, 1995). He has also edited six other books with various publishers.

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• Verlag: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0071195378
• ISBN 13: 9780071195379
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 4