Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz

Notes in the history of intercultural communication: The Foreign Service institute and the mandate for intercultural training

Edward T. Hall is usually the author mentioned as the first to write explicitly about intercultural communication. His book, The Silent Language, published in 1959 and generally listed as the first work in the field, has been influential in setting the agenda for the field of intercultural communication. At the same time, it is important to understand that Halls work was not invented de novo, but rested heavily upon work begun with a series of colleagues for the specific purpose of training American diplomats about to be sent abroad. Understanding The Silent Language and the effect it has had on the study of intercultural communication requires knowing about the history of a particular group of linguists and anthropologists at a particular place, the Foreign Service Institute, and time, 1946–1956; that history is the focus here.

Semiotics and communication : signs, codes, cultures

Contents: Prelude: Why Semiotics? Introduction: Communication and Semiotics. Part I: Semiotic Theory and Communication Theory. Introducing Semiotics. Signs. Codes. Part II: From Semiotic Theory to Communication Behavior. Food as Sign and Code. Clothing as Sign and Code. Objects as Sign and Code. Part III: From Communication Behavior to Semiotic Theory. Cultures.

Culture and communication: A review essay

THE MAN‐OF‐WORDS IN THE WEST INDIES: PERFORMANCE AND THE EMERGENCE OF CREOLE CULTURE. By Roger D. Abrahams. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983; pp. xxxi + 203.

Identifying Key Intercultural Urgencies, Issues, and Challenges in Today's World: Connecting Our Scholarship to Dynamic Contexts and Historical Moments

26.50; paper

Defining and Communicating What “Intercultural” and “Intercultural Communication” Means to Us

12.95. PORTRAITS OF “THE WHITEMAN”: LINGUISTIC PLAY AND CULTURAL SYMBOLS AMONG THE WESTERN APACHE. By Keith Basso. Foreword by Dell Hymes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979; pp. xxi + 120.

Our Role as Intercultural Scholars, Practitioners, Activists, and Teachers in Addressing These Key Intercultural Urgencies, Issues, and Challenges

24.95; paper

Making marriage visible: Wedding anniversaries as the public component of private relationships

10.95. LET YOUR WORDS BE FEW: SYMBOLISM OF SPEAKING AND SILENCE AMONG SEVENTEENTH‐CENTURY QUAKERS. By Richard Bauman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983; pp. viii + 168.

CHRISTINA BRATT PAULSTON & G. RICHARD TUCKER (eds.), The early days of sociolinguistics: Memories and reflections . (Publications in sociolinguistics, 2.) Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1997. Pp. xii, 362.

34.50; paper

Book review essays

12.95. WAYS WITH WORDS: LANGUAGE, LIFE, AND WORK IN COMMUNITIES AND CLASSROOMS. By Shirley Brice Heath. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983; pp. xiii + 421.

Social approaches to communication

57.50; paper