Today, students are more familiar with other cultures than ever before because of the media, Internet, local diversity, and their own travels abroad. Using a social constructionist framework, Inter/Cultural Communication provides today's students with a rich understanding of how culture and communication affect and effect each other. Weaving multiple approaches together to provide a comprehensive understanding of and appreciation for the diversity of cultural and intercultural communication, this text helps students become more aware of their own identities and how powerful their identities can be in facilitating change-both in their own lives and in the lives of others.

PART I. INTRODUCTION TO INTER/CULTURAL COMMUNICATION
Chapter 1. Culture and Communication - Anastacia Kurylo
Living Culture: The Social Construction of Race - Anita Foeman
Chapter 2. Intercultural and Cross-Cultural Communication - Bernadette M. Watson
Living Culture: Interpreting Gestures - Bill Edwards
Chapter 3. Intercultural Communication Competence - Lily Arasaratnam
Living Culture: A Punk. A Lifer. - Brian Cogan
Chapter 4. A Communication Theory of Culture - Donal Carbaugh
Living Culture: Latin Dancing? - Anonymous
Chapter 5. Culture in Conversation - Jessica S. Robles
Living Culture: Let's Have the Men Clean Up - Anonymous
PART II. DISTINGUISHING SELF AND OTHER
Chapter 6. Self-Identity and Culture - Ronald L. Jackson II, Cerise L. Glenn, & Kesha Morant Williams
Living Culture: The Dilemma of Nationalism in Pakistan - Satarupa Dasgupta
Chapter 7. Ingroups and Outgroups - Howard Giles & Jane Giles
Living Culture: Crip Mate - David Linton
Chapter 8. Privilege and Culture - Gust A. Yep
Living Culture: New Jersey - Anonymous
Chapter 9. Co-Cultural Group Membership - Tina M. Harris
Living Culture: Living with Homelessness - Charles Vasquez
PART III. NAVIGATING INTER/CULTURAL COMMUNICATION IN A COMPLEX WORLD
Chapter 10. Advocacy - Rachel Anderson Droogsma
Living Culture: Creating an Organ Donation Health Campaign - Susan E. Morgan
Chapter 11. Media and Culture: The 'Reality' of Media Effects - Mark P. Orbe
Living Culture: Shushing, Shelving, and Stamping - Marie L. Radford
Chapter 12. Technology and Culture - Tatyana Dumova
Living Culture: Staying Connected - Satomi Sugiyama
PART IV. LOOKING TO THE FUTURE OF INTER/CULTURAL COMMUNICATION: RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
Chapter 13. Social Scientific Approach to Culture - Jan Pieter van Oudenhoven
Living Culture: A Day - Kurt Lemko
Living Culture: A Love - Jack Bennett
Chapter 14. Interpretivist Approach to Culture - David Boromisza-Habashi
Living Culture: Community Living - Brad Crownover
Chapter 15. Challenges and Opportunities in Intercultural Communication - Anastacia Kurylo
Living Culture: Toward Internarrativity: Reflections of a Humble Interculturalist - William J. Starosta
PART V. APPENDICES: STUDIES OF INTER/CULTURAL COMMUNICATION
Appendix A: Navajo Culture Explored through Ethnography - Charles A. Braithwaite
Appendix B: Local Culture Explored through Discourse Analysis - Kathleen C. Haspel
Appendix C: Dagaaba Culture of Ghana Explored through Rhetorical Analysis - Anthony Y. Naaeke
Appendix D: Transnational Dominican Culture through Phenomenological Analysis - Wilfredo Alvarez, Mark P. Orbe, Ewa L. Urban, & Nayibe A. Tavares
Appendix E: South African Culture Explored through Content Analysis - Adrian Furnham
Appendix F: Korean Culture Explored through Survey Research - Seung Hee Yoo & David Matsumoto
Appendix G: Japanese Culture Explored through Experimental Design - Yohtaro Takano