The Global Intercultural Communication Reader Book

Dedication     ix
Notes on Contributors     xiii
Acknowledgments     xix
Introduction   Molefi Kete Asante   Yoshitaka Miike   Jing Yin     1
Perspectives on Culture in Theory and Research     9
Concepts of "Culture": Implications for Intercultural Communication Research   Dreama G. Moon     11
Ethical Implications of the Ethnic "Text" in Multicultural Communication Studies   Dolores Valencia Tanno     27
The Centrality of Culture   Robert Shuter     37
Metatheoretical Frameworks for Future Directions     45
The Ideological Significance of Afrocentricity in Intercultural Communication   Molefi Kete Asante     47
Toward an Alternative Metatheory of Human Communication: An Asiacentric Vision   Yoshitaka Miike     57
Thinking Dialectically about Culture and Communication   Judith N. Martin   Thomas K. Nakayama     73
Contextual Approaches to Culture and Communication     93
Language and Words: Communication in the Analects of Confucius   Hui-Ching Chang     95
Ubuntu in South Africa: A Sociolinguistic Perspective to a Pan-African Concept   Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu     113
Constructing the Other: ACritical Reading of The Joy Luck Club   Jing Yin     123
The Four Seasons of Ethnography: A Creation-Centered Ontology for Ethnography   Sarah Amira de la Garza     143
Impact of Globalization on Intercultural Communication     165
The Hegemony of English and Strategies for Linguistic Pluralism: Proposing the Ecology of Language Paradigm   Yukio Tsuda     167
The Intersecting Hegemonic Discourses of an Asian Mail-Order Bride Catalog: Pilipina "Oriental Butterfly" Dolls for Sale   Rona Tamiko Halualani     179
Currents in History, Cultural Domination, and Mass Communication in the Caribbean   Humphrey A. Regis     193
Identity and Intercultural Communication Competence     213
Intercultural Communication Competence: A Synthesis   Guo-Ming Chen   William J. Starosta     215
Beyond Multicultural Man: Complexities of Identity   Lise M. Sparrow     239
Applying a Critical Metatheoretical Approach to Intercultural Relations: The Case of U.S.-Japanese Communication   William Kelly     263
Ethical Considerations in Intercultural Communication     281
Theoretical Perspectives on Islam and Communication   Hamid Mowlana     283
Ethics and the Discourse on Ethics in Post-Colonial India   Anantha Sudhaker Babbili      297
Peace and the Middle East   Edward W. Said     317
Mutual Learning as an Agenda for Social Development   Tu Weiming     329
Permissions     335
Index     337