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Becoming intercultural : an integrative theory of communication and cross-cultural adaptation /

This book looks at the movements of immigrants and refugees and the challenges they face as they cross cultural boundaries and strive to build a new life in an unfamiliar place. It focuses on the psychological dynamic underpinning their adaptation process; how their internal conditions change over t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kim, Young Yun
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©2001.
Colección:Current communication.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Common Experiences of Crossing Cultures
  • Theorizing About Cross-Cultural Adaptation
  • Existing Approaches to Cross-Cultural Adaptation
  • Macro-Level and Micro-Level Perspectives
  • Long-Term and Short-Term Adaptation
  • Adaptation as Problem and Adaptation as Learning/Growth
  • Varying Theoretical Accounts and Empirical Assessments
  • Divergent Value Premises: Assimilationism and Pluralism
  • Toward Integration
  • The Theory
  • Organizing Principles
  • The Domain and Boundary Conditions
  • Assumptions: Strangers as Open Systems
  • Mechanics of Theorizing
  • Empirical Grounding
  • The Process of Cross-Cultural Adaptation
  • Cultural Adaptation
  • Cross-Cultural Adaptation
  • The Stress-Adaptation-Growth Dynamic: A Process Model
  • Three Facets of Intercultural Transformation
  • Axioms
  • The Structure of Cross-Cultural Adaptation
  • Personal Communication: Host Communication Competence
  • Social Communication
  • Environment
  • Predisposition
  • Linking Dimensions and Factors: A Structural Model
  • Assumptions, Axioms, and Theorems
  • Elaboration of the Theory
  • Personal Communication
  • Host Communication Competence
  • Cognitive Components
  • Affective Components
  • Operational Components
  • Linking Cognitive, Affective, and Operational Components
  • Social Communication
  • Host Social Communication
  • Ethnic Social Communication
  • Linking Factors of Host and Ethnic Social Communication
  • Environment
  • Host Receptivity
  • Host Conformity Pressure
  • Ethnic Group Strength.