Group Identity and Communication Difficulties: A Study of Intergroup Communication Difficulties between Passengers and Touts at the Kisumu City Bus Park - Softcover

Obiero, Ogone J.; Obiero Ogone John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 363907503X ISBN 13: 9783639075038

Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

This book aims to inform both scholars and thepublic about the nature and extent of intergroupcommunication difficulties. In Kenya, as in otherparts of the world, the transport industry is fastbecoming essential to the increasing pace of life.But in the Kenyan situation,a unique and veryinfluential culture is emerging since the industrybrings together all manner of people with diverseinterests, lifestyles, and specialities. With regardto communication among such people, the book tracesinstances of communicative difficulties within theframework of intergroup interaction between twoforemost groups in public transport. Specifically,this book systematically investigates how theinterplay of intergroup variables such as groupidentity, social stereotypes, and communicativedistances may be the cause of communicationbreakdown, and how such breakdown may result inconflictual relationships between the groupsinvolved.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 363907503X
• ISBN 13: 9783639075038
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 140
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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