Description
The Tenth Edition of An Introduction to Intercultural Communication prepares today's readers to successfully navigate our increasingly global community. Fred E. Jandt introduces essential communication skills and concepts that will enable readers to interact successfully with different cultures and ethnic groups. Jandt offers readers unique insights into intercultural communication, at home and abroad, through an emphasis on history, culture, and popular media. Throughout the text, Jandt reinforces the important roles that stories, personal experiences, and self-reflection play in building our intercultural understanding and competence. New to this edition:
- New material on religion and identity, gender identity, and gender expression enables readers to explore the most current coverage on modern theories.
- Focus on Skills boxes have been expanded to include more activities that provide students with additional practice of intercultural communication skills.
- Focus on Technology boxes illustrate the impact of the newest communication technology on intercultural encounters.
- The popular map program provide students with additional context for discussion of cultures and regions across the globe and dynamic data displays that are popular with students.
Jandt's cultural perspective on communication is imparted through a range features: These include scenarios for students to respond to and "global voices" in the form of provocative quotes, with objectives and interactive summaries encasing each chapter. His engaging writing style also makes the text easy to read and comprehend.
To complement this, SAGE edge offers a robust online environment featuring an impressive array of tools and resources for review, study, and further exploration, keeping both instructors and students on the cutting edge of teaching and learning.
About the Author
Fred E. Jandt was born of second-generation German immigrants in the multicultural south-central region of Texas. After graduating from Texas Lutheran University and Stephen F. Austin State University, he received his doctorate in communication from Bowling Green State University. He has taught and been a student of intercultural communication for more than 40 years, developing his experience through travel and international training and research projects. While professor of communication at The College at Brockport, State University of New York, his reputation as a teacher led to his appointment as SUNY's first director of faculty development. He has retired as professor and branch campus dean after having been named outstanding professor. He has also been a visiting professor at Victoria University of Wellington, in New Zealand. He has extensive experience in the areas of intercultural and international communication, negotiation, mediation, and conflict management. He was one of the first scholars to introduce the study of conflict to the communication discipline with his text Conflict Resolution Through Communication (Harper & Row, 1973). He has subsequently published many other titles in this area, including the successful trade book Win-Win Negotiating: Turning Conflict Into Agreement (Wiley, 1985), which has been translated into eight languages; a casebook on international conflict management, Constructive Conflict Management: Asia-Pacific Cases (SAGE, 1996) with Paul B. Pedersen; and Conflict and Communication (SAGE, 2017). For several years, he conducted the training workshop "Managing Conflict Productively" for major corporations and government agencies throughout the United States. Jandt continues to train volunteers who are learning to become mediators in the California justice system and served as an elected trustee of the Desert Community College District.
Book Information
ISBN 9781071808498
Author Fred E. Jandt
Format Paperback
Page Count 520
Imprint SAGE Publications Inc
Publisher SAGE Publications Inc
Weight(grams) 790g