Unit One Intercultural Communication:An Overview

Reading One An Introduction to Intercultural Communication

Reading Two The History of the Study of Intercultural Communication

Unit Two Language and Culture

Reading One Communicative Codes:Linguistic Aspects

Reading Two Language and Culture:Sounds and Actions

Unit Three Cultural Identity and Intercultural Communication

Reading One Intercultural Dilemma in Multicultural Setting:Doing vs.Being

Reading Two Intercultural Competence in Interpersonal Relationships

Unit Four Verbal Communication

Reading One Verbal Intercultural Communication

Reading Two Relationships in Face-to-Face Communication

Unit Five Nonverbal Communication

Reading One Nonverbal Intercultural Communication

Reading Two Nonverbal Codes and Cultural Space

Unit Six Cultural Patterns and Perception

Reading One Cultural Patterns and Communication:Taxonomies

Reading Two Cultural Diversity in Perception:Alternative Views of Reality

Unit Seven Intercultural Communication—East and West

Reading One Collectivism vs.Individualism:A Reconceptualisation of a Basic Concept in Cross-Cultural Social Psychology

Reading Two The Concept of"Face"in Chinese-American Interaction

Unit Eight Intercultural Barriers

Reading One Attitudes toward the Culturally Different:the Role of Intercultural Communication Barriers,Affective Responses,Consensual Stereotypes,and Perceived Threat

Reading Two Stumbling Blocks in Intercultural Communication

Unit Nine Intercultural Communication in Business,Management and Negotiation

Reading One Negotiating Across Cultures

Reading Two Reconciling Cultural Dilemmas

Unit Ten Cultural Adaptation and Intercultural Competence

Reading One Cross-Cultural Adaptation:Axioms

Reading Two The Potential for Intercultural Competence

Unit Eleven Theories of Intercultural Communication

Reading One Theorizing about Intercultural Communication:An Introduction

Reading Two Measuring Culture:The Utility of Verifying Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions

Unit Twelve Scholarship on Chinese Communication

Reading One Chinese Communication Scholarship as an Expansion of the Communication and Culture Paradigm

Reading Two No Limits Careers:A Critical Examination of Career Discourse in the U.S.and China

Glossary

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