The Handbook of Intergroup Communication brings together research, theory and application on traditional as well as innovative intergroup situations, exploring the communication aspect of these groups. The "intergroup" umbrella integrates and transcends many traditional conceptual boundaries in communication (including media, health, intercultural, organizational); hence the Handbook will appeal to scholars and graduate students not only in the core area of intergroup communication itself, but across varying terrains of study in communication and beyond, including intergroup relations and social psychology.

Howard (Howie) Giles is Professor of Communication at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He has served as Chair of the Communication Department and as the Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Studies in the College of Letters and Science. Prior to UCSB he was Chair of Social Psychology and Head of Psychology at Bristol University. His research interests revolve around the study of intergroup communication in different domains (interethnic, gay-straight, between-gender, physically challenged-ablebodied people), and his current interests focus on intergenerational communication and lifespan aging from a cross-cultural perspective.

I: DIVERSE APPROACHES Social psychological approaches to intergroup communication (IGC) Sociolinguistics and intergroup communication (IGC) Ethnographies and IGC Discursive psychology and IGC Sociological perspectives on IGC Eclectic methodological and theoretical integrations II: COMMUNICATIVE PHENOMENA AND PROCESSES Accommodating and nonaccommodating messages Language attitudes, nonverbals, and stigma Hate speech and stereotypic talk Powerful and silencing messages Multilingual choices as intergroup Terrorism as communication Negotiating and reconciling intergroup conflict Interethnic contact and peace Intergroup e-communication III: SOCIAL GROUPS AND COMMUNICATION Between-genders communication Communication between gays, lesbians, and straights Youth-adult & younger-older adult communication Communication between the generations Interability communication: Physically challenged-able-bodied Police-civilian interactions Inter-gang rivalries, cliques, and social aggression Inter-religious communication IV: APPLIED DOMAINS AND COMMUNICATION Health-related Educational-related (incl. Greek & inter-discipline) (Other) Organizational The family as an intergroup arena Sporting Performing Arts (Music & dance) Print media, TV, and the movies. Epilogue