Intercultural Communication

Intercultural Communication: A Global Reader contains 36 articles showcasing the development and diversity of intercultural communication theories in countries such as China, Africa, the United States, New Zealand, Mexico, Egypt, and others. Themes and topics discussed include identity and communication, intercultural verbal and nonverbal processes and interactions, relationships, and ethics.

The Reader presents a wide-range of articles, showing the permeance of intercultural communication in today’s world and in everyday life. Examples of topics included are:

• Conflict management in organizations
• The impact of the Internet and of online global communication
• Gender differences in communication
• The increasing influence of globalization
• Health care
• Creating a culture of peace

Half of the readings are from non-U.S. authors/scholars, presenting readers with a truly global perspective on intercultural communication.

The Reader may be used as a stand-alone text, an excellent companion to Fred E. Jandt’s textbook An Introduction toIntercultural Communication: Identities in a Global Community, Eighth Edition, or in conjunction with other texts. The book is intended for the introductory intercultural communication course and is also of value for many courses in cultural studies, sociology, and anthropology.

About the Editor:

Fred E. Jandt (Ph.D., Bowling Green State University) is Professor of Communication at California State University, San Bernardino and the recipient of the University’s 2003 Outstanding Professor Award. He was a visiting professor at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and has also taught at SUNY-Brockport, where he became SUNY’s first director of faculty development. Professor Jandt has been widely published in the field of communications and speaks at major national and international conferences.

 

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 4 decades, 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; Conflict and Communication, Third Edition (Cognella, 2025); and Negotiation and Mediation (Cognella, 2025). 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.