01524 a2200325 4500 1138860786 20250317100401.0 250312042017GB eng 9781138860780 Taylor & Francis GBP 52.99 BB 01 eng GTC thema JBCT thema CF thema NH thema GTC bic JFD bic CF bic H bic LAN004000 bisac SOC052000 bisac 302.2 bisac Stephen M. Croucher Global Perspectives on Intercultural Communication 1 Oxford Routledge 20170510 376 p What is intercultural communication? How does perspective shape a person’s definition of the key tenets of the term and the field? These are the core questions explored by this accessible global introduction to intercultural communication. Each chapter explores the topic from a different geographic, religious, theoretical, and/or methodological perspective, with an emphasis on non-Western approaches, including Buddhist, South American, Muslim, and Chinese perspectives. Featuring the voices of a range of international contributors, this new textbook presents the full breadth of diverse approaches to intercultural communication and showcases the economic, political, and cultural/societal needs for and benefits of communicative competence. 1252 1252