Contents

Dedication: In Honor of Dr. Everett M. Rogers (1931–2004)

Molefi Kete Asante, Yoshitaka Miike, and Jing Yin

Acknowledgments

Introduction: New Directions for Intercultural Communication Research

Molefi Kete Asante, Yoshitaka Miike, and Jing Yin

Part I  The Emergence and Evolution of Intercultural Communication

1.Notes in the History of Intercultural Communication: The Foreign Service Institute and the Mandate for Intercultural Training

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz

2.The Evolution of International Communication as a Field of Study: A Personal Reflection

Gary R. Weaver

3.The Centrality of Culture in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Robert Shuter

4.Theories of Culture and Communication

Bradford ‘J’ Hall

5.Mapping Cultural Communication Research: 1960s to the Present

Ronald L. Jackson II

6.Sojourning Through Intercultural Communication: A Retrospective

William J. Starosta

Part II Issues and Challenges in Cross-Cultural and Intercultural Inquiry

7.Afrocentricity: Toward a New Understanding of African Thought in the World

Molefi Kete Asante

8.The Asiacentric Turn in Asian Communication Studies: Shifting Paradigms and Changing Perspectives

Yoshitaka Miike

9.Indigenous and Authentic: Hawaiian Epistemology and the Triangulation of Meaning

Manulani Aluli-Meyer

10.The Four Seasons of Ethnography: A Creation-Centered Ontology for Ethnography

Sarah Amira de la Garza

11.Encounters in the Third Space: Links Between Intercultural Communication Theories and Postcolonial Approaches

Britta Kalscheuer

12.Thinking Dialectically About Culture and Communication

Judith N. Martin and Thomas K. Nakayama

Part III Cultural Wisdom and Communication Practices in Context

13.Nommo, Kawaida, and Communicative Practice: Bringing Good Into the World

Maulana Karenga

14.Ubuntu in South Africa: A Sociolinguistic Perspective to a Pan-African Concept

Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu

15.Communication and Cultural Settings: An Islamic Perspective

Hamid Mowlana

16.The Functions of Silence in India: Implications for Intercultural Communication Research

Nemi C. Jain and Anuradha Matukumalli

17.Language and Words: Communication in the Analects of Confucius

Hui-Ching Chang

18.The Two Faces of Chinese Communication

Guo-Ming Chen

Part IV Identity, Multiculturalism, and Intercultural Competence

19.Popular Culture and Public Imaginary: Disney vs. Chinese Stories of Mulan

Jing Yin

20.The Mexican Diaspora: A Critical Examination of Signifiers

Susana Rinderle

21.The Masculine–Feminine Construct in Cross-Cultural Research: The Emergence of a Transcendent Global Culture

James W. Chesebro, David T. McMahan, Preston Russett, Eric J. Schumacher, and Junliang Wu

22.Encounters With the “Other”: Personal Notes for a Reconceptualization of Intercultural Communication Competence

Gust A. Yep

23.Applying a Critical Metatheoretical Approach to Intercultural Relations: The Case of U.S.–Japanese Communication

William Kelly

24.Superheroes in Shanghai: Constructing Transnational Western Men’s Identities

Phiona Stanley

25.Beyond Multicultural Man: Complexities of Identity

Lise M. Sparrow

26.Moving the Discourse on Identities in Intercultural Communication: Structure, Culture, and Resignifications

S. Lily Mendoza, Rona T. Halualani, and Jolanta A. Drzewiecka

Part V  Globalization and Ethical Issues in Intercultural Relations

27.Ethnic Discourse and the New World Dysorder: A Communitarian Perspective

Majid Tehranian

28.The Hegemony of English and Strategies for Linguistic Pluralism: Proposing the Ecology of Language Paradigm

Yukio Tsuda

29.Languages and Tribal Sovereignty: Whose Language Is It Anyway?

Rebecca Blum Martinez

30.Development and Communication in Sri Lanka: A Buddhist Approach

Wimal Dissanayake

31.Global Village vs. GandhianVillages: A Viable Vision

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

32.The Context of Dialogue: Globalization and Diversity

Tu Weiming

Appendix: Intercultural Communication as a Field of Study: A Selected Bibliography of Theory and Research

Yoshitaka Miike

Notes on Contributors

Permissions

Index