Cultural Communication and Intercultural Contact

How is cultural identity accomplished interactively? What happens when different cultural identities contact one another? This book presents a series of papers from classic essays to original expositions which respond to these questions. The view of communication offered here -- rather than ignoring culture or making it a variable in an equation -- is based on cultural patterns and situated communication practices unveiling the multiplicity of factors involved in particular times and places. <p/> The contributors to this unusual volume represent a wide range of fields. Their equally diverse offerings will serve to clarify cultural distinctiveness in some communication phenomena and lay groundwork for the identification of cross-cultural generalities in others.<br>