PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Rhetoric at the Intercultures - Alberto Gonzalez and Dolores V Tanno PART TWO: PERSPECTIVES ON RHETORIC AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION The Cultures of Rhetoric - Robert Shuter Situating Rhetoric in Cultural Discourses - Donal Carbaugh and Karen Wolf Africalogical Theory Building - Ronald L Jackson II Positioning the Discourse Opening the Future - Raymie E McKerrow Postmodern Rhetoric in a Multicultural World Asking New Questions of Old Texts - Vanessa Bowles Beasley Presidential Rhetoric and the Demands of Multiculturalism Some Elementary Methodological Reflections on the Studying of the Chinese Rhetorical Tradition - Mary M Garret PART THREE: RHETORIC IN INTERCULTURAL CONTEXTS George Bush Goes to Rio - Taria Rai Peterson and Kathi Lynn Pauley Implications for US Participation in Global Environmental Governance Rhetoric and Intercultural Friendship Formation - Elisabeth Gareis Water-Related Figurative Language in the Rhetoric of Mencius - Ringo Ma The Cultural Perspective of a Public Health Facility for Oklahoma American Indians - Lynda Dee Dixon and Paul M Shaver Architectural Change as Rhetoric PART FOUR: FORUM: DEVELOPING FRAMEWORKS FOR INTERCULTURAL RHETORICAL ANALYSIS On the Intersection of Rhetoric and Intercultural Communication - William J Starosta A Twenty-Five Year Personal Retrospective Future Research on Rhetoric and Intercultural Communication - John C Hammerback Moving Forward from Starosta's 'Intersection' A Response to Bill Starosta's 'On the Intersection of Rhetoric and Intercultural Communication' - Raka Shome Response to Commentaries by Hammerback and Shome - William J Starosta