Communication and identity across cultures

Abstract

INTRODUCTION Sites of Identity in Communication and Culture - Dolores V Tanno and Alberto Gonzalez SITES OF IDENTITY Patriotic Breeders or Colonized Converts - Wenshu Lee A Post-Colonial Approach to Anti-Footbinding Discourse in China Swinging the Trapeze - Radha Hegde The Negotiation of Identity among Asian Indian Immigrant Women in the United States Razzing - Steven B Pratt Ritualized Uses of Humor as a Form of Identification among American Indians The Cultural Deprivation of an Oklahoma Cherokee Family - Lynda Dixon Shaver Linguistic Agons - Nancy Wick The Self/Society Opposition and American Quakers Researching Cultural Identity - Mary Jane Collier Reconciling Interpretive and Postcolonial Perspectives `Diversity' versus `National Unity' - Eric Louw The Struggle between Moderns, Premoderns and Postmoderns in Contemporary South Africa IDENTIFYING NATION-STATES THROUGH CHANGE Distinguishing Cultural Systems - James W Chesebro Change as a Variable Explaining and Predicting Cross-Cultural Communication Problematizing `Nation' in Intercultural Communication Research - Kent Ono Response to Chesebro's Change Variable to Explain Cross-Cultural Communication - Carley Dodd Change, Nation-States and the Centrality of a Communication Perspective - James W Chesebro