This text addresses the core issues and concerns of intercultural communication by integrating three different the social psychological, the interpretive, and the critical. The dialectical framework, integrated throughout the book, is used as a lens to examine the relationship of these research traditions.
First off, this book feels so unprofessional. The amount of errors and poor sentence structuring makes it feel like im proof reading a crappy college essay. Secondly, the book is sometimes insensitive. It randomly throws in school shootings and lgbt people as examples for topics that are not even closely related. I would be fine with some of the examples used if the book wrote more context about them.. but the books just haphazardly throws in some triggering topics. Very unhappy that I have to read this for class.
A wonderful addition to any intercultural communication class. Melds well with extra readings that might be assigned from academic journals. Not only covers theory - gives examples of theory in practice.