Young Yun Kim

18Interethnic communication: An interdisciplinary overview

Abstract: Issues pertaining to ethnicity and interethnic relations have been investigated extensively and continuously since the early 20th century. This chapter presents a synoptic overview of the extant literature to identify the core theoretical and research activities across social science disciplines, so as to provide a conceptual map of the broad and complex domain of interethnic communication as an interdisciplinary field of study. Focusing on the everyday associative and dissociative communication behaviors at the grassroots level, the author employs the multidimensional and multifaceted model in Kim’s (2005, 2009) Contextual Theory of Interethnic Communication

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