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An Introduction to Intercultural Communication prepares students to successfully navigate our increasingly interconnected global community by introducing essential communication skills and concepts. In the latest Eleventh Edition, best-selling author Fred E. Jandt offers unique insights into intercultural communication, at home and abroad, through a focus on history, culture, and popular media.

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This text provides a balanced, comprehensive examination of theory and practice of intercultural communication with a blend of contemporary and classic sources. -- Janie M. H. Fritz Fred Jandt has an excellent track record in the field of communication studies and this textbook bolsters that reputation. It is current, wide ranging, and pedagogically sound. -- Shawn Queeney Jandt′s book not only reveals the history of communication in a global context, but it strives to keep with trends in society. The book introduces intercultural competencies and barriers to students. It helps students think about the whole versus the individual. -- Stefanie Leiter An Introduction to Intercultural Communication offers real-world perspectives on cultural and intercultural communication, to include micro and sub-cultures within dominant cultures. It is rich with real-world experiences that reveal similarities and differences between cultural entities. Finally, this text offers a depth of content that fosters conversation and discussion of issues relevant to cultural communication. -- Terilyn J. Goins

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Fred E. Jandt was born of second-generation German immigrants in the multicultural south-central region of Texas. After graduating from Texas Lutheran University and Stephen F. Austin State University, he received his doctorate in communication from Bowling Green State University. He has taught and been a student of intercultural communication for more than 4 decades, developing his experience through travel and international training and research projects. While professor of communication at The College at Brockport, State University of New York, his reputation as a teacher led to his appointment as SUNY′s first director of faculty development. He has retired as professor and branch campus dean after having been named outstanding professor. He has also been a visiting professor at Victoria University of Wellington, in New Zealand. He has extensive experience in the areas of intercultural and international communication, negotiation, mediation, and conflict management. He was one of the first scholars to introduce the study of conflict to the communication discipline with his text Conflict Resolution Through Communication (Harper & Row, 1973). He has subsequently published many other titles in this area, including the successful trade book Win-Win Negotiating: Turning Conflict Into Agreement (Wiley, 1985), which has been translated into eight languages; a casebook on international conflict management, Constructive Conflict Management: Asia-Pacific Cases (SAGE, 1996), with Paul B. Pedersen; Conflict and Communication, Third Edition (Cognella, 2025); and Negotiation and Mediation (Cognella, 2025). For several years, he conducted the training workshop “Managing Conflict Productively” for major corporations and government agencies throughout the United States. Jandt continues to train volunteers who are learning to become mediators in the California justice system and served as an elected trustee of the Desert Community College District.

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