pt. 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 J̀' Hall
5. Mapping Cultural Communication Research: 1960s to the Present / Ronald L. Jackson II
6. Sojourning Through Intercultural Communication: A Retrospective / William J. Starosta
pt. 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 / Thomas K. Nakayama
pt. 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 / 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
pt. 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 / 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 / Jolanta A. Drzewiecka
pt. 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. Gandhian Villages: A Viable Vision / Kuruvilla Pandikattu
32. The Context of Dialogue: Globalization and Diversity / Tu Weiming.