This book is the first encyclopedia dedicated to the burgeoning field of intergroup communication. It explores geographic regions, intergroup communication processes, theories, and applied areas of interest, all pertaining to how human communication processes are influenced by, and themselves influence, the groups to which we all belong.

• 1. Approaches and Methods in Intergroup Communication


• Behavioral Indicators of Discrimination in Social Interactions


• Conversation Analysis and Intergroup Communication


• Discursive Psychological Approaches to Intergroup Communication


• Evolutionary Approaches to Intergroup Communication


• New Methodological Approaches to Intergroup Communication


• Qualitative Methods in Intergroup Communication


• 2. Geographical Regions


• Conflict and Perceived Threat in Eastern Africa


• European Union: Integration, National, and European Identities


• Intergroup Communication: Asia/Australasia


• Intergroup Communication: The Baltic Countries


• Intergroup Communication: India


• Intergroup Communication: Scandinavia


• Intergroup Communication: Spain


• 3. Institutional Contexts


• Crisis Communication


• Family Relationships and Interactions: Intergroup Approaches


• Intercultural Workplace Communication


• Politician-Public Group Dynamics


• Sport and Intergroup Communication


• Terrorism and Intergroup Communication


• Uncertainty and Extremism


• 4. Intergroup Communication Phenomena


• Acculturation and Intergroup Communication


• Apprehension and Anxiety in Communication


• Collective Protest, Rioting, and Aggression


• Group Labeling


• Group Status


• Ingroup Love and Outgroup Hate


• Intergroup Contact


• Intergroup Metaphors


• Intractability from a Sociopsychological Approach


• Jokes and Humor in Intergroup Relations


• Language and Power


• Language Attitudes


• Legal Issues in Intergroup Relations


• Linguistic Bias


• Nonaccommodation


• Norm Talk and Intergroup Communication


• Political Correctness


• Prejudiced Communication


• Public Discourse and Intergroup Communication


• Intergroup Communication and Reconciliation: Experiences from the Former Yugoslavia


• The Role of Emotional Mimicry in Intergroup Relations


• Speech and Debate


• Understanding Hate Speech


• 5. Media


• Dance as Intergroup Communication


• Dress Style Code and Fashion


• Identity and Online Groups


• Imagined Interaction


• Media Portrayals and Effects: African Americans


• Media Portrayals and Effects: Latinos


• Media Use in a Political Context: An Intergroup Communication Perspective


• Mediated Contact


• Music and Intergroup Communication


• Online Contact and Intergroup Conflict Resolution


• Seeking and Avoiding of Media: Intergroup Approaches


• Social Media and Intergroup Communication


• 6. Social Groups and Contexts


• Aging and Organizational Communication


• Cancer Communication Science


• Communicating Personal and Social Identity in Adolescence


• Communicating Religious Identities


• Communication, Aging, and Culture


• Death and Dying: An Intergroup Communication Approach


• Disability and Intergroup Communication


• Discursive Approaches to Race and Racism


• Gangs and Intergroup Communication


• Gay Male Culture and Intergroup Communication


• Gay Straight Communication


• Gender Bias and Sexism in Language


• Gender Issues in Intergroup Communication


• Genocide and Intergroup Communication


• Indigenous Languages: Their Threatened Extinction is a Global Responsibility


• Inter-Ethnic Communication


• Migrants and Migrant Workers


• Refugees and Diaspora


• The United States Military: Sites of Intergroup Discourses


• Weight and Weightism


• 7. Theories of Intergroup Communication


• Communication Accommodation Theory and Intergroup Communication


• Contextual Theory of Interethnic Communication


• Deception in Intergroup Communication


• Identity Negotiation Theory and Mindfulness Practice


• Integrated Threat Theory


• Social Psychological Approaches to Intergroup Communication


• Uncertainty Management Theories


• Vitality Theory

Howard Giles is Professor and Graduate Advisor in the Department of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara. He has previously served as chair of the department, as well as assistant dean of Undergraduate Studies in the College of Letters and Science. In 2009, he received the Mark L. Knapp Award of the National Communication Association for career contributions to the study of interpersonal communication. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the British Psychological Society, and the International Communication Association, among others. He is the former president of the International Communication Association and International Association for the Study of Language & Social Psychology. Dr. Giles was also the co-founding chair of the ICA Interest Group on intergroup communication and the Editor of the above recent Handbook of Intergroup Communication.
Jake Harwood (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara) is Professor of Communication and former director of the Gerontology program at the University of Arizona. He is author of Understanding Communication and Aging (2007) and Communication and Music (2015), and co-editor of The Dynamics of Intergroup Communication (2011). He has published over 100 articles and chapters on intergenerational communication, intergroup communication and communication and music, including in journals such as Human Communication Research, Journal of Communication, and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.