Stella Ting-Toomey and Tenzin Dorjee

20Intercultural and intergroup communication competence: Toward an integrative perspective

Abstract: Communication competence or effectiveness has been investigated in multiple intercultural communication contexts. Interestingly, while intercultural competence scholars have borrowed ideas heavily from the interpersonal competence field, they appeared to have glossed over some essential constructs such as social identity membership phenomenon, intergroup attitudes, group vitality, communication accommodation, and the dynamics of intergroup dialogue in the fertile intergroup communication research arena. Additionally, to the best of our knowledge, intergroup communication scholars have also paid negligible attention ...

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