Stella Ting-Toomey and Tenzin Dorjee

7Multifaceted identity approaches and cross-cultural communication styles: Selective overview and future directions

Abstract: Multiple identity facets are intimately related to the study of cross-cultural communication styles because the preferred use of verbal and nonverbal communication styles are tied distinctively to situated sociocultural membership and personal identity issues. While past cross-cultural communication style research studies have focused primarily on the culture-level analysis of identity value contents and communication style issues, other salient intergroup membership identity issues have been largely minimized or bypassed in them. This chapter advocates for an integrative intercultural ...

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