Intercultural rhetoric and professional communication technological advances and organizational behavior /

• Main Author: Thatcher, Barry, 1964-
• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), 2012.
• Subjects: Business communication.; Organizational behavior.; Intercultural communication.; Communication and culture.; Contrastive rhetoric; Distance education; E-learning; Intercultural inquiry; Intercultural organizational training; Intercultural teaching and research; Knowing and defining relevant cultural differences; Organizational theory and communication; Professional communication across cultures; Culture and rhetoric; Website design; Globalization
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"This book explores the theory and practice of rhetoric and professional communication in intercultural contexts, providing a framework for translating, localizing, and internationalizing communications and information products around the world"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• 1. Approaching intercultural rhetoric and professional communication
• 2. Borders and etics as units of analysis for intercultural rhetoric and professional communication
• 3. Contrastive rhetorics and world Englishes
• 4. Information and communication technologies and intercultural professional communication
• 5. Website designs as an indicator of globalization
• 6. Organizational theory and communication across cultures
• 7. Distance education and E-learning across cultures
• 8. Legal traditions, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and intercultural professional communication
• 9. Intercultural rhetorical dimensions of health literacy and medicine
• 10. Writing instructions and how-to-do manuals across cultures
• 11. Core competencies in intercultural teaching and research
• 12. Teaching intercultural rhetoric and professional communication.