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<p> As worldwide travel and contact increase, intercultural communication competence becomes a powerful imperative that goes beyond traditional approaches. The authors' travel experiences in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America and their interactions with people during their travels echo in the book through stories and ideas that have enriched their perspectives. Their firsthand experiences combined with their scholarship offer readers insight into and knowledge of the field of intercultural communication. Offering a unique treatment of intercultural communication culled from the global experiences of its authors, <i>Intercultural Communication: Roots and Routes</i> examines intercultural communication against the background of a rapidly-transforming world, both culturally and linguistically. This book focuses on the inseparable relationship between cultural roots and the communicative consequences of humans' confrontation with diversity. Using the metaphors of process and movement-- "roots and routes"-- to capture the ongoing dynamism of intercultural communication, this book demonstrates how theory animates intercultural performance. These metaphors are used as powe

Author

Calloway-Thomas, Carolyn, 1943-; Cooper, Pamela J; Blake, Cecil A

Publisher

Boston: Allyn and Bacon

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780205292639

Subjects

Sociology, Literary Fiction, Humanities