Theorizing About Intercultural Communication

Edited by William B. Gudykunst and published by Sage, this volume brings together the major theoretical frameworks in intercultural communication — and does so with an unusual advantage: many contributors are the researchers who developed the theories they're describing. That gives the book an authoritative depth that a secondary-source survey can't match. Coverage spans three broad approaches: integrating culture into communication theory, mapping cross-cultural variation, and explaining communication between cultures directly. It's organized to support graduate coursework, and it works well in that context. General readers or undergraduates without prior grounding in communication theory will find it inaccessible. The field has continued to develop since 2005, so some frameworks need supplementing with more recent scholarship.