Larry A. Samovar

Bio: Larry A. Samovar is an academic researcher from San Diego State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Intercultural communication & Interpersonal communication. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 13 publications receiving 2589 citations.

Communication Between Cultures

Abstract: COMMUNICATION BETWEEN CULTURES continues with the features that have made it the best-selling text for the intercultural communication course. The new edition of this leading gives students an understanding and appreciation of different cultures and helps them develop practical skills for improving their communication with people from other cultures. It's renowned for being the only text on the market to consistently emphasize religion and history as key variables in intercultural communication. Packed with the latest research and filled with numerous, compelling examples that force students to examine their own assumptions and cultural biases, this book helps students understand the subtle and profound ways culture affects communication. The book is divided into four interrelated parts: Part I introduces the study of communication and culture; Part II focuses on the ability of culture to shape and modify our view of reality; Part III puts the theory of intercultural communication into practice; and Part IV converts knowledge into action.

Intercultural communication : a reader

Abstract: Preface. 1: APPROACHES TO INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION. Understanding Intercultural Communication: Some Working Principles, Edwin R. McDaniel, Larry A. Samovar, and Richard E. Porter. Culture and Conflict, Harry C. Triandis. Worldview in Intercultural Communication: A Religio-Cosmological Approach, Satoshi Ishii, Donald Klopf, and Peggy Cooke. "Harmony without Uniformity": An Asiacentric Worldview and Its Communicative Implications, Yoshitaka Miike. Pathways of Human Understanding: An Inquiry into Western and North American Indian Worldview Structures, Leo Schelbert. The Cultural Iceberg: Working Across Cultures, John Hooker. 2: CULTURAL IDENTITY: ISSUES OF BELONGING. Constructing, Negotiating and Communicating Jewish Identity in America, Jamie Moshin and Ronald Jackson, II. Living Within Whiteness: A Project Aimed at Undermining Racism, John T. Warren. The Hybrid Identification of Gender Queer: Claiming Neither/Nor Both/And, A. L. Zimmerman and Patricia Geist-Martin. Chinese American Ethnic and Cultural Identity, Sabine Chai and Mei Zhong. What's (not) in a Label?: Understanding Korean American Adoptee Identity Through Self-Identified Labels, Etsuko Kinefuchi. Straddling Cultural Borders: Exploring Identity in Multiple Reacculturation, Chuka Onwumechili, Peter Nwosu, and Ronald Jackson II. 3: INTERNATIONAL CULTURES: UNDERSTANDING DIVERSITY. Living Together vs. Going it Alone: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently, Richard E. Nisbett. The Spirituality of "Being," Grace, and Tao in Intercultural Communication, Mary Fong. Communication with Indians, Rajesh Kumar and Anand Kumar Sethi. Dismantling Misconceptions About Islam in Egypt, Polly A. Begley. Intermediated Interpersonal Communication Codes in Sub-Saharan Africa, Ann Neville Miller. 4: CO-CULTURES: LIVING IN TWO CULTURES. Unum and Pluribus, Young Yun Kim. Ho-oponopono: A Hawaiian Cultural Process to Conflict Resolution, Charmaine Ka'imikawa. Americans in Black and Brown: Exploring Sources of Intercultural Tensions Between Blacks and Latinos, Peter Nwosu. Which is My Good Leg?, Dawn Braithwaite and Charles Braithwaite. In Plain Sight: Gay and Lesbian Communication and Culture, William F. Eadie. 5: INTERCULTURAL MESSAGES: VERBAL AND NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION. Language, Culture, and Social Interaction, Justin Charlebois. Dialogue, Argument, and Cultural Communication Codes Between Israeli-Jews and Palestinians, Donald G. Ellis and Ifat Maoz. Public Speaking Patterns in Kenya, Ann Neville Miller. Mexican Dichos: Lessons Through Language, Carolyn Roy. Beyond Language: Nonverbal Communication Across Cultures, Peter A. Andersen and Hua Wang. Mexicans and Americans: A Different Sense of Space, Ned Crouch. 6: CULTURAL CONTEXTS: THE INFLUENCE OF SETTING. Japanese Style of Decision Making in Business Organizations, Kazuo Nishiyama. A Brief Comparison and Analysis of German and American Business Cultures, Paul Hinner. U.S. Americans and Mexicans Working Together: Five Core Concepts, Sheryl Lindsley and Charles Braithwaite. Beyond the Knapsack: Disrupting the Production of "White Racial Privilege in Organizational Practices, Patricia Parker and Jennifer Mease. When Cultures Collide: Alternative Medicine, Biomedicine, and the Patients in the Middle, Polly A. Begley and Debbie A. Ocker. Three Narratives of Spiritual Healing, Karen Rasmussen and Jennifer Asenas. Culture and Communication in the Classroom, Geneva Gay. Enculturation of Values in the Educational Setting: Japanese Group Orientation, Edwin R. McDaniel and Eriko Katsumata. 7: COMMUNICATING INTERCULTURALLY: BECOMING COMPETENT. A Model of Intercultural Communication Competence, Brian H. Spitzberg. Intercultural Effectiveness, Guo-Ming Chen. Cultural Adaptation in Costa Rica: Dialectics of Doubt and Accomplishments--Recounting What Counts in Cultural Immersions, Summer Carnett, Katherine Slauta, and Patricia Geist-Martin. Proactive Performance to Prevent Sexual Assault: Understanding the Role of Masculinity in Violence Against Women, Marc D. Rich, Lucretia R. Robinson, Courtney Aherns, and Jose I. Rodriguez. 8: ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE. Cultural Diversity: A World View, Thomas Sowell. The Limits of Cultural Diversity, Harlan Cleveland. Intercultural Personhood, Young Yum Kim. Integration in Intercultural Ethics, Richard J. Evanoff. Worldview: The Ethical Dimension, Ninian Smart. Index.

Cultural influences on emotional expression: Implications for intercultural communication

Abstract: Publisher Summary This chapter explores the relationship between culture and the communication of emotional states during intercultural communication. There are at least six primary emotions­­­—anger, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, and happiness—which are usually considered to be physiologically based and expressed similarly across cultures. Secondary emotions, such as pride, guilt, and shame arise culturally through participation in the sociocultural environment and tend to vary based on age, gender, and culture. Intercultural communication examines the situation in which a message is encoded in one culture for consumption in another culture. The correct interpretation of verbal and nonverbal messages encoded in another culture is largely dependent upon one's proficiency in social perception and experience in intercultural communication. The chapter discusses several significant cultural dynamics that affect the display of emotion and ultimately intercultural communication. These diverse aspects of culture are (1) display rules, (2) antecedent events, (3) individual-collectivism and power distance, (4) context, (5) nonverbal communication, and (6) language

Identification and Assessment of Intercultural Competence as a Student Outcome of Internationalization

Abstract: This study seeks to determine a definition and appropriate assessment methods of inter-cultural competence as agreed on by a panel of internationally known intercultural scholars. This information ...

Science Education: Border Crossing into the Subculture of Science

Abstract: (1996). Science Education: Border Crossing into the Subculture of Science. Studies in Science Education: Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 1-52.

Bias and equivalence in cross-cultural assessment: an overview

Abstract: In every cross-cultural study, the question as to whether test scores obtained in different cultural populations can be interpreted in the same way across these populations has to be dealt with. Bias and equivalence have become the common terms to refer to the issue. Taxonomy of both bias and equivalence is presented. Bias can be engendered by the theoretical construct (construct bias), the method such as the form of test administration (method bias), and the item content (item bias). Equivalence refers to the measurement level at which scores can be compared across cultures. Three levels of equivalence are possible: the same construct is measured in each cultural group but the functional form of the relationship between scores obtained in various groups is unknown (structural equivalence), scores have the same measurement unit across populations but have different origins (measurement unit equivalence), and scores have the same measurement unit and origin in all populations (full scale equivalence). The most frequently encountered sources of bias and their remedies are described.

Nonlanguage factors affecting undergraduates' judgments of nonnative english-speaking teaching assistants

Abstract: In response to dramatic changes in the demographics of graduate education, considerable effort is being deveoted to training teaching assistants who are nonnative speakers of English (NNSTAs). Three studies extend earlier research that showed the potency of nonlanguage factors such as ethnicity in affecting undergraduates' reactions to NNSTAs. Study 1 examined effects of instructor ethnicity, even when the instructor's language was completely standard. Study 2 identified predictors of teacher ratings and listening comprehension from among several attitudinal and background variables. Study 3 was a pilot intervention effort in which undergraduates served as teaching coaches for NNSTAs. This intervention, however, exerted no detectable effect on undergraduates' attitudes. Taken together, these findings warrant that intercultural sensitization for undergraduates must complement skills training for NNSTAs, but that this sensitization will not accrue from any superficial intervention program.