ABSTRACT
This handbook brings together research reports from around the world all of which examine communication as a culturally shaped practice; resulting is a view of communication in cross-cultural perspective. Readers will find here a global community of scholars who have produced studies that explore the diversity in ways communication is understood around the world, examine specific cultural traditions in the study of communication, and thus inform readers about the range of ways in which communication is understood around the world. The focus of the handbook is dual in that it brings into view communication as an academic discipline of study and as a culturally situated practice-with these treated as not mutually exclusive. By attending to communication in these ways, the handbook is focused on, and will be, according to Gerry Philipsen’s Epilogue, an authoritative resource for understanding communication in cross-cultural perspective.
