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zurückAmongUS presents readings from individuals whose intercultural experiences give insights on how to achieve an effective and fair multicultural society where cultural identities are celebrated and maintained.
The essays provide a rich source of materials to teach a broad array of interpersonal, sociological, and psychological concepts that apply to educational, business, and cultural settings. The authors have arranged the book around four themes: Identity, Negotiating Intercultural Competence, Racism and Prejudice, and Belonging to Multiple Cultures. The text is ideal as either a supplemental or main text for the intercultural communication course.
Approaching the subject matter from the perspective of four different realms of business and professional life-relational life, work life, public life and techno-life-this pragmatic new text introduces students to the issues they will face in the workplace of the future and provides them with the special skills they will need to cope with this fast-changing environment. Through in-depth discussions of such important topics as gender, diversity, humor in the professional setting, and business etiquette and protocol, this volume moves the genre into new territory that existing books have not yet explored. Eminently practical, real-world case studies, self-assessment exercises, and "Toolboxes" provide useful tips for more effective communication to make this book much more pragmatic and hands-on than any of the competitors, showing students the reality of the business and professional world.
Lively, clear, and geared to students' needs, Communication: Making Connections directs students on the path to become more skilled, educated, and competent communicators in their everyday lives.
Centered on the authors' belief that communication is about connecting, linking, sharing, participating, bonding, coupling, and joining with others, this text introduces students to the skills and theory of communication. It combines student-oriented case studies, exercises, examples, and the authors' conversational style to draw students into the text and motivate them to learn and understand the basic principles of communication. An integrated emphasis on technology-both in the text itself and in the supplements package-helps students learn about its relationship to communication.
The third edition of this student-centered text is grounded in its in-depth and integrated attention to the content literacy needs of students from diverse cultural and language backgrounds.
In this new edition, Alvermann and Phelps have added emphasis to the issues of struggling readers, technology, writing across the curriculum, and a social constructionist framework for learning. Connected with major research and theoretical frameworks, the text provides concepts and strategies for practical use in today's diverse classrooms.
For introduction to business courses or international business, and multicultural business communications courses at the undergraduate level and beyond.
As a result of increasing relationships with individuals whose culture is different from our own, our communication challenges grow proportionately greater. The purpose of this text is to make it easier and more effective for workplace professionals to speak, write, interview, or meet with other professionals whose cultural backgrounds differ from their own.
This best-selling text presents the fundamental skills of interpersonal, small group, and public communication, emphasizing the areas of human communication skills, cultural awareness, listening, critical thinking, power, and ethics.
Essentials of Human Communication fills the need for a brief, interesting, but serious text that places a strong focus on skill development. In-text features and the text itself highlight the application of human communication skills to the real world and to the workplace.
The Hispanic Child: Speech, Language, Culture, and Education addresses the issues and struggles of today's Hispanic school-age children.
As Hispanics and Latinos are the fastest growing minority populations in the U.S., school-based speech-language pathologists and special educators need appropriate information in order to provide appropriate services. This book is a comprehensive volume that serves this necessary function. The text is made practical and accessible through the inclusion of "Best Practice" suggestions and the author's experiences.
The Hispanic Child is meant to help all clinicians and educators understand their bilingual caseload, provide appropriate services, and approach all of their interactions with their bilingual students in an informed and compassionate manner.
For courses in Freshman Composition, Advanced Composition, and Writing Across the Curriculum.
This cross-curricular composition reader emphasizes writing as thinking. Since good questions are at the heart of good writing, the book is organized around six perennially interesting questions. The reading selections in each chapter offer a variety of approaches to the chapter question, with representation from many disciplines and social perspectives.
Intercultural Communication: A Text with Readingsprovides a narrative approach so that students can understand both the depth and breadth of intercultural communication.
The text/reader combination provides students and instructors with the best of both worlds: the text material - written by the authors - presents the foundations of intercultural communication, and the narratives and readings provide interesting examples to help clarify ideas and principles.
Intercultural Communication, a new offering from Pearson's VangoBook program, illustrates the dynamic role intercultural communication plays today in social problems, the workplace, health care settings, mass media, and history through a layered and contextualized perspective. Interpersonal communication concepts are looked at through the lenses of individual, interpersonal, organizational, and societal/cultural perspectives to help students understand the context of both their own behavior and that of others. At the same time, the perspective emphasizes that people have agency and individuals can make a difference to address social problems.
Offering a unique treatment of intercultural communication culled from the global experiences of its authors, Intercultural Communication: Roots and Routes examines intercultural communication against the background of a rapidly transforming world both culturally and linguistically. As worldwide travel and contact increase, intercultural communication competence becomes a powerful imperative that goes beyond traditional approaches to this field. The authors' travel experiences in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America and their interactions with people during their travels echo in the book through stories and ideas that have enriched their perspectives. Their firsthand experiences combined with their scholarship offer students insight into and knowledge of the field of intercultural communication.
This text focuses on the inseparable relationship between cultural roots and the communicative consequences of humans' confrontation with diversity. Using the metaphors of process and movement - "roots and routes" - to capture the ongoing dynamism of intercultural communication, this text demonstrates how theory animates intercultural performance. These metaphors are used as powerful tools for understanding how primary places and things such as home, family, experiences, immigration, food, prejudices, perceptions, popular culture, race, gender, and customs and traditions help to shape what people think, feel, and do as they interact in an increasingly complex world.
The authors examine intercultural communication from a humanistic, qualitative approach with an emphasis on everyday interpersonal/rhetorical interactions. In addition to providing complete chapters on religion, the media, ethics, culture and pedagogy, and the socio-economic dimensions of intercultural communication, the authors conclude with a discussion of some of the major trends in diversity and intercultural communication which are shaping the future as we approach a new century and an examination of the challenges and possibilities that might be lying ahead.
Intercultural Communication: A Text with Readingsprovides a narrative approach so that students can understand both the depth and breadth of intercultural communication.
The text/reader combination provides students and instructors with the best of both worlds: the text material - written by the authors - presents the foundations of intercultural communication, and the narratives and readings provide interesting examples to help clarify ideas and principles.
Striking a unique balance between skills and theory, Intercultural Competence, 3/e provides students with the background and confidence to succeed in today's multi-cultural environment. By clearly explaining different intercultural communication theories and the significance of cultural patterns, then having students practice what they learn via examples in the book, Lustig and Koester ensure that students are better prepared to interact in intercultural relationships. The text also provides a discussion of important ethical and social issues relating to intercultural communication. The authors cover both American multi-culturalism as well as global cultural issues.
Striking a unique balance between skills and theory, Intercultural Competence provides students with the background and confidence to succeed in today's multicultural environment.
Blending both the practical and theoretical, the concrete and abstract, this textbook is both enjoyable to read and thoroughly researched. By clearly explaining different theories and the significance of cultural patterns and having students practice what they learn via examples in the book, Intercultural Competence better prepares students to interact in intercultural relationships. The text also provides a discussion of important ethical and social issues relating to intercultural communication. The authors cover U.S. cultures as well as global cultural issues.
Striking a unique balance between skills and theory, Intercultural Competence provides students with the background and confidence to succeed in today's multicultural environment.
Blending both the practical and the theoretical, the concrete and the abstract, this textbook is both enjoyable to read and thoroughly researched. By clearly explaining different theories, and the significance of cultural patterns and having students practice what they learn via examples in the book, Intercultural Competence better prepares students to interact in intercultural relationships. The text also provides a discussion of important ethical and social issues relating to intercultural communication. The authors cover U.S. cultures as well as global cultural issues.
Intercultural Encountersprovides a brief but broad introduction to the fundamentals of intercultural communication.
The text combines theory and knowledge from different disciplines to help prepare students to interact successfully with people who think, feel, and behave differently than they do. Brief commentaries from noted scholars in the field, exercises, activities, and discussion questions provide students with an opportunity to develop communication skills in today's increasingly diverse world.
Written by two well-respected researchers and authors in the field, Interpersonal Communication and Human Relationships offers the most comprehensive and widely-used developmental and analytical approach to communication in close relationships. It focuses on the role of communication in the coming together and the coming apart of relationships.
This accessible text introduces students to relational communication theories by using common examples - relationships with roommates, friends, and parents - to help students better understand and retain concepts. Furthermore, the book's core model, introduced in Chapter 2, can be applied to the diverse range of relationships that students have experienced - or will experience - throughout their lives.
A classic for more than twenty years, Interpersonal Communication and Human Relationships retains all of its highly-praised features in the fourth edition, including the latest research from communication and social psychology; thorough coverage of dialogue, speech, and interaction patterns; interesting boxed inserts, cartoons, and diagnostic tests; and an effective writing style that engages students and holds their interest.
Written by two well-respected researchers and authors in the field, Interpersonal Communication and Human Relationships offers the most comprehensive and widely used developmental and analytical approach to communication in close relationships.
Focusing on the role of communication in the coming together and the coming apart of relationships, this accessible text introduces students to relational communication theories by using common examples-relationships with roommates, friends, and parents-to help them better understand and retain concepts.
A classic for more than twenty years, Interpersonal Communication and Human Relationships retains all of the Fourth Edition's highly praised features, including the latest research from communication and social psychology; thorough coverage of dialogue, speech, and interaction patterns; interesting boxed inserts, cartoons, and diagnostic tests; and an effective writing style that engages students and holds their interest.
Interpersonal Communication offers a blend of theory and skills that students can use to become "other-oriented"-mindfully considerate of the thoughts, needs, and values of others.
Fueled by the authors' conviction that "skills inform principles; principles inform skills,"Interpersonal Communication: Relating to Others maintains a careful balance between theoretical and skills-oriented material. This book integrates a key emphasis on diversity with examples drawn from a variety of age and ethnic groups and special boxes that focus on gender and diversity issues. A chapter on intercultural communication supplements this integral material by relating it to the "other-oriented" approach.
Messages is a brief, highly interactive text that emphasizes interpersonal communication skills, ethics, critical thinking, listening, and power in a multicultural world.
While intentionally brief, Messages provides a comprehensive introduction to interpersonal communication that creates a foundation for students to first understand the concepts to develop the necessary skills to apply what they have learned through real-life examples and exercises. With a renewed focus on skill-building, this text helps today's students understand how to master their interpersonal communication skills in every area of their lives.
Structured around ten fundamental principles, Principles of Intercultural Communication combines a strong focus on current intercultural communication theory with a student-friendly style.
This unique text leads students through all of the material traditionally covered in an intercultural communication text using gradually unfolding principles that come together to form a reader-friendly narrative. Using in-depth case studies and side trips and incorporating provocative discussion questions, Principles of Intercultural Communication engages students in active learning, leaving students with a unified understanding of intercultural communication.
This interdisciplinary text reader addresses the issues of race, class, gender and justice, and provides a thoughtful introduction to their significance for the law and criminal justice system.
This book incorporates recent articles by top experts in the field. The variety of articles and range of topics covered provide balanced coverage of all areas of the criminal justice system. Each section begins with a substantial overview that sets a conceptual framework for future analysis. By systematically addressing stratification issues, the authors emphasize the fact that the law and the criminal justice system reflect the larger society in which they operate.
This user-friendly text offers a comprehensive overview at the interface between bilingual/multicultural/ESL education and gifted education.
Reaching New Horizons is the first book of its kind. Written by nationally recognized and award-winning leaders in both gifted and bilingual education, the authors have collaborated to create a text that bridges research and practice and has far-reaching implications for educators at all levels as culturally and linguistically diverse students continue to impact public education. The text includes chapters on program delivery models (Ch. 6), bilingualism (Ch. 3), and identification and assessment (Ch. 5)-all topics that have come into the forefront of issues faced by bilingual and gifted education teachers of grades K-12.
A brief, economical introduction to the core theories, concepts, and issues for students studying race and ethnic relations in the United States.