Intercultural Communication

Deborah A. Cai is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Maryland. As an international researcher with ties to China, her scholarly expertise is in intercultural communication, persuasion, and negotiation and conflict management, with particular interest in international negotiation as a specific context of persuasive activity within organizations. Her current research focuses on the way people from different cultures emphasize different cognitive processes and the effect such differences may have on decision-making. In the past, her research has included studies on cultural differences in negotiation plans, enactment of face-management strategies, and the mediating effects of role on culture in business negotiation. Her research has been presented at national and international conferences and is published in the field's premier journals and serials, including Communication Monographs, Communication Yearbook, Human Communication Research, Journal of Applied Communication, and Progress in Communication Research.

VOLUME 1: STRUCTURAL AND IDEATIONAL FOUNDATIONS Structural Influences The Functional Prerequisites of a Society - D.F. Aberle, A.K. Cohen, A.K. Davis, M.J. Levy Jr. and F.X. Sutton Exchange and Communial Relationships - Judson Mills and Margaret S. Clark Functionalism and Structuralism - Alexandra Maryanski and Jonathan H. Turner Suicide: A study in sociology - Emile Durkheim Toward the Development of an Empirically Based Theory of Role Relationships - Jerald Hage and Gerald Marwell What is the Meaning of Santa Claus? - Warren O. Hagstrom Dynamic Social Impact: The creation of culture by communication - Bibb Latane Social Structure and Sex-role Choices among Children in Four Cultures - Robert L. Munroe Sociology: An approach to human communication - John W. Riley, Jr. and Matilda White Riley National Wealth and Thermal Climate as Predictors of Motives for Volunteer Work - Evert van de Vliert, Xu Huang, and Robert V. Levine The Origin of Modern Capitalism [1920] - Max Weber Groups, Organizations and Cultures - J. Woelfel and Edward L. Fink Cross-Cultural Comparisons - William B. Gudykunst Evolutionary Influences Of Brains and Groups and Evolution - Robin Dunbar Where do Cultures Come From? - Satoshi Kanazawa A Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Behavior of Women and Men: Implications for the origins of sex differences - Wendy Wood and Alice H. Eagly VOLUME 2: STUDYING INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION How to Study Intercultural Communication Imposed Etics-Emics-Derived Etics: The operationalization of a compelling idea - J.W. Berry A Role for Communication Theory in Ethnography and Cultural Analysis - Donal Carbaugh and Sally O. Hastings Rethinking the Culture-Negotiation Link - Robert J. Janosik On the Relation Between Individual and Collective Properties - Paul F. Lazarsfeld and Herbert Menzel Cross-Cultural Differences: Individual-level vs. culture-level analysis - Kwok Leung Thinking Dialectically About Culture and Communication - Judith H. Martin and Thomas K. Nakayama Methods for Studying Intercultural Communication Quantitative Methods for Conflict Communication Research, with Special Reference to Culture - Edward L. Fink, Deborah A. Cai and Qi Wang Issues in Cross-cultural Communication Research - William B. Gudykunst Problems in Intercultural Research - J. David Johnson and Frank Tuttle An Empirical Investigation of Self-Attitudes - Manford H. Kuhn and Thomas S. McPartland Cross-Cultural Comparability in the Measurement of Meaning - Charles E. Osgood Values Used to Study Intercultural Communication Individualism and Collectivism Chinese Values and the Search for Culture-free Dimensions of Culture - The Chinese Culture Connection Using Individualism and Collectivism to Compare Cultures - A Critique of the Validity and Measurement of the Constructs: Comment on Oyserman et al. (2002) - Alan Page Fiske Conflict Styles Differences Between Individualists and Collectivists - Deborah A. Cai and Edward L. Fink Self-Construals Culture and the Self: Implications for cognition, emotion and motivation - Hazel Rose Markus and Shinobu Kitayama The Cultural Psychology of Personality - Hazel Rose Markus and Shinobu Kitayama Self-construal Scales Lack Validity - Timothy R. Levine, Mary Jiang Bresnahan, Hee Sun Park, Maria Knight Lapinski, Gwen M. Wittenbaum, Sachiyo Morinaga Shearman, Sun Young Lee, Donghun Chung & Rie Ohashi Cognition Culture and Systems of Thought: Holistic versus analytic cognition - Richard E. Nisbett, Kaiping Peng, Incheol Choi and Ara Norenzayan Cultural Preferences for Formal Versus Intuitive Reasoning - Ara Norenzayan, Edward E. Smith, Beom Jun Kim and Richard E. Nisbett Cognition and Affect in Cross-Cultural Relations - Cookie White Stephan and Walter G. Stephan VOLUME 3: THE PERSON AND CULTURE Emotions Universals and Cultural Differences in Recognizing Emotions - Hilager A. Elfenbein and Nalini Amberdy Cultural Influences on the Expression and Perception of Emotion - David Matsumoto, Brenda Franklin, Jung-Wook Choi, David Rogers and Haruyo Tatani A Fluency of Feeling: Exploring cultural and individual differences (and similarities) related to skilled emotional support - Steve Mortenson, Meina Liu, Brant R. Burleson and Yan Liu Language Science and Linguistics - Benjamin Lee Whorf Translation Accuracy: Using multidimensional scaling - George A. Barnett, Mark T. Palmer and Hana Noor Al-Deen Is it Culture or is it Language? Examination of language effects in cross-cultural research on categorization - Li-Jun Ji, Zhiyong Zhang and Richard E. Nisbett Communicating Love: Comparisons between Americans and East Asian university students - Susan L. Kline, Brian Horton and Shuangyue Zhang Argument Argumentative Style Across Cultures: Linguistic form as the realization of rhetorical function - Basil Hatim Linguistic Strategies and Cultural Styles for Persuasive Discourse - Barbara Johnstone Cultural Orientations of Argument in International Disputes: Negotiating the law of the sea - Gregg B. Walker Inscrutibility Revisted - Linda Wai Ling Young Conflict Culture and International Mediation: Exploring theoretical and empirical linkages - Jacob Bercovitch and Ole Elgstoem An Analysis of Integrative Outcomes in the Dayton Peace Negotiations - Nimet Beriker-Atiyas and Tijen Demirel-Pegg Language and Conflict Resolution: The limits of English - Raymond Cohen Negotiation Culture and Negotiation - Jeanne M. Brett Culture in the Context of Intercultural Negotiation: Individualism-collectivism and paths to integrative agreements - Deborah A. Cai, Steven R. Wilson and Laura E. Drake A Cylindrical Model of Communication Behavior in Crisis Negotiations - Paul J. Taylor Trust How Relevant is Trust Anyway? - A cross-cultural comparison of trust in organizational and peer relationships - Deborah A. Cai and Chun-Ju Hung Radius of Trust: Social capital in relation to familism and institutional collectivism - Anu Realo, J ri Allik and Brenna Greenfield Trust in India and Sweden: An experimental examination of the Fukuyama conjecture - Ali M. Ahmed and Osvaldo Salas VOLUME 4: MANAGING INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION Adaptation Cultural Convergence: A Mathematical Theory - George A. Barnett and D. Lawrence Kincaid Five Meanings of Integration in Acculturation Research - Pawel Boski Somewhere in the Middle: The measurement of third culture - Suman Lee Cultural Shock: Adjustment to new cultural environments - Kalervo Oberg Culture Shock and Adaptation - Michael Winkelman Anxiety Uncertainty Management Anxiety, Uncertainty and Perceived Effectiveness of Communication across Relationships and Cultures - William B. Gudykunst and Tsukasa Nishida Uncertainty, Anxiety and Avoidance in Communication with Strangers - Patricia M. Duronto, Tsukasa Nishida and Shin-ichi Nakayama Communicating Identity Body Ritual Among the Nacirema - Horace Miner Reflection of Women's Status in Speech Frequency: A four-culture study - Robert L. Munroe Speaking "Like a Man" in Teamsterville: Cultural patterns of role enactment in an urban neighborhood - Gerry Philipsen Communication Accommodation Theory Accommodating Intercultural Encounters: Elaborations and extensions - Cynthia Gallois, Howard Giles, Elizabeth Jones, Aaron C. Cargile and Hiroshi Ota Communication Competence Cracking the Nonverbal Code: Intercultural competence and gesture recognition across cultures - Andrew L. Molinsky, Mary Anne Krabbenhoft, Nalini Ambady and Y. Susan Choi Predictors of Intercultural Communication Competence - Richard L. Wiseman, Mitchell R. Hammer & Hiroko Nishida Conversational Constraints Toward a Theory of Conversational Constraints: Focusing on individual-level dimensions of culture - Min-Sun Kim Expectancy Violations Cross-cultural and Intercultural Applications of Expectancy Violations Theory - Judee K. Burgoon Facework Power Distance and Facework Strategies - Rebecca Merkin Face Concerns in Interpersonal Conflict: A cross-cultural empirical test of the face negotiation theory - John G. Oetzel and Stella Ting-Toomey Development Communication Inquiry in Intercultural and Development Communication - Young Yun Kim Effects of an Entertainment-Education Radio Soap Opera on Family Planning Behavior in Tanzania - E.M. Rogers, P.W. Vaughan, Ramadhan M.A. Swalehe, Nagesh Rao, Peer Svenkerud and Suruchi Sood Intergroup relations Intergroup Relations in Hong Kong: The Tao of stability - Michael Harris Bond Normative Theory in Intergroup Relations: Explaining both harmony and conflict - Thomas F. Pettigrew