Communication in Personal Relationships Across Cultures, Volume 1William B. Gudykunst, Stella Ting-Toomey, Tsukasa Nishida This innovative book contains studies of personal relationships from a variety of non-western cultures, and leaves behind the western biases that are typical of most research and theorizing done in this expanding area. Chapters focus on personal communication practices in countries including Iran, Brazil, Mexico, China, Japan and Korea. The editors cover the major theories that explain communication across cultures through both emic and etic approaches, by examining how members of a culture understand their own communication, and by comparing specific aspects of communication across cultures. They also suggest areas for future research. |
Contents
CrossCultural Variability of Communication | 19 |
Elementary Structures of Social Interaction | 57 |
A Chinese Perspective | 81 |
Communication in Personal Relationships in Japan | 102 |
Interpersonal Relationships in Korea | 122 |
A Mexican Base for Interpersonal Relationships | 137 |
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African authority ranking Brazil Brazilian chapter che-myon Chinese culture collectivism collectivistic cultures communal sharing communalistic communication in personal concept conflict construals context cross-cultural interpersonal Cross-Cultural Psychology cultural variability dimensions of cultural emic emic and etic emotional equality matching ethnic etic example expected express face facework Fiske Gudykunst high power distance high-context communication Hofstede human important individualism-collectivism individualistic cultures influence ingroup interaction intercultural communication intergroup interpersonal communication interpersonal relationships intimacy Iran Iranians Japan Japanese Journal of Cross-Cultural jung komyunikehshon Koreans low-context Members of individualistic messages Mexican México's Newbury Park Nishida nonverbal nonverbal communication noon-chi normative che-myon one's orientation outgroup patterns perceived personal relationships perspective political power distance cultures ren qing respeto role rules Sage Social Psychology society status strategies structure tend theory Ting-Toomey Tokyo traditional Triandis Tsujimura uncertainty avoidance uncertainty avoidance cultures United University Zhong guo ren