Cross-Cultural Adaptation: Current Approaches (International and Intercultural Communication Annual) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803930380 ISBN 13: 9780803930384

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1988

Synopsis

How do people adapt to life in a foreign country? Is the process different for immigrants, refugees and diplomats, or do all individuals in a new cultural milieu share common adaptation experiences? This multi-disciplinary volume considers the cross-cultural adaptation process from psychological, sociological, anthropological and communication perspectives. Using diverse case examples, it integrates theoretical and empirical research and presents studies of both long- and short-term adaptation.

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About the Author

William B. Gudykunst (Ph.D., Minnesota, 1977) is Professor of Speech Communication at the College of Communications, California State University, Fullerton. Bill has written and edited numerous works for SAGE, including the Handbook of Intercultural and International Communication, 2/e, and Bridging Differences: Effective Intergroup Communication, 3/e as well as the best-selling introductory undergraduate texts Building Bridges: Interpersonal Skills for a Changing World (Houghton Mifflin) and Communicating with Strangers: An Approach to Intercultural Communication, 3/e (McGraw-Hill). He is extremely well known in the discipline and is one of its most prolific writers/scholars in the areas of intercultural communication and human communication theory.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803930380
• ISBN 13: 9780803930384
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Kim Young Yun