Cultural Communication and Intercultural Contact [Paperback]

How is cultural identity accomplished interactively? What happens when different cultural identities contact one another? This book presents a series of papers, from classic essays to original expositions, which respond to these questions. The view of communication offered here -- rather than ignoring culture, or making it a variable in an equation -- is based on cultural patterns and situated communication practices, unveiling the multiplicity of factors involved in particular times and places.

The contributors to this unusual volume represent a wide range of fields. Their equally diverse offerings will serve to clarify cultural distinctiveness in some communication phenomena, and lay groundwork for the identification of cross-cultural generalities in others.
Contents: D. Carbaugh,Introduction. D. Carbaugh, Part I:Culture Talking About Itself.G. Philipsen,Speaking Like a Man in Teamsterville: Culture Patterns of Role Enactment in an Urban Neighborhood. G. Philipsen,Reflections on Speaking Like a Man in Teamsterville. J.L. Daniel, G. Smitherman-Donaldson,How I Got Over: Communication Dynamics in the Black Community. J.L. Daniel, G. Smitherman-Donaldson,How I Got Over and Continue to Do So in Our Mothers' Churches. D.L. Wieder, S. Pratt,On Being a Recognizable Indian Among Indians. D.L. Wieder, S. Pratt,On the Occasioned and Situated Character of Members' Questions and Answers: Reflections on the Question, Is He or She a Real Indian? T. Katriel, G. Philipsen, What We Need is Communication : Communication as a Cultural Category in Some American Speech. G. Philipsen,Reflections on Communication as a Cultural Category In Some American Speech. T. Katriel,'Griping' as a Verbal Ritual in Some Israeli Discourse. T. Katriel,Reflections on the Israeli 'Griping' Ritual. D. Cal'