Theories in Intercultural Communication

William B. Gudykunst (Ph.D., Minnesota, 1977) is Professor of Speech Communication at the College of Communications, California State University, Fullerton. Bill has written and edited numerous works for SAGE, including the Handbook of Intercultural and International Communication, 2/e, and Bridging Differences: Effective Intergroup Communication, 3/e as well as the best-selling introductory undergraduate texts Building Bridges: Interpersonal Skills for a Changing World (Houghton Mifflin) and Communicating with Strangers: An Approach to Intercultural Communication, 3/e (McGraw-Hill). He is extremely well known in the discipline and is one of its most prolific writers/scholars in the areas of intercultural communication and human communication theory.

PART ONE: OVERVIEW On Theorizing Intercultural Communication - Young Kun Kim A Taxonomic Approach to Intercultural Communication - Larry E Sarbaugh PART TWO: CULTURE AND MEANING A Constructivist Theory of Communication and Culture - James L Applegate and Howard E Sypher Coordinated Management of Meaning - Vernon E Cronen, Victoria Chen, and W Barnett Pearce A Critical Theory Cultural Identity - Mary Jane Collier and Milt Thomas An Interpretive Perspective PART THREE: INTERCULTURAL BEHAVIOR Uncertainty and Anxiety - William B Gudykunst Communication Accommodation in Intercultural Encounters - Cynthia Gallois, Arlene Franklyn-Stokes, Howard Giles, and Nikolas Coupland Episode Representations in Intercultural Communication - Joseph P Forgas Intercultural Conflict Styles - Stella Ting-Toomey A Face-Negotiation Theory PART FOUR: INTERCULTURAL ADAPTATION Network Theory in Intercultural Communication - June Ock Yum A Theory of Adaptation in Intercultural Dyads - Huber W Ellingsworth The Convergence Theory and Intercultural Communication - D Lawrence Kincaid Intercultural Transformation - Young Kun Kim and Brent D Ruben A Systems Theory