Intercultural communication: an introduction

The dispute over defining culture

Defining communication as an element of culture

Barriers to intercultural communication

Stereotypes and prejudice as barriers

Nonverbal communication

Knowing culture through language

Language as a barrier

Culture's influence on perception

Children, women, and families

Dimensions of culture

Dominant United States cultural patterns : using value orientation theory

Comparative cultural patterns : Russian and Arabian cultures

Contact between cultures

Immigration and acculturation

Forces against assimilation

Forces to conform to one cultural identity

Establishing a culture

Identity and subgroups

Multiculturalism

Improving intercultural communication.