Japanese Culture and Communication: Critical Cultural Analysis

by Ray T. Donahue

Overview

Japanese Culture and Communication provides a cross-cultural training manual for interacting with the Japanese by considering the conceptual barriers involved, identifying the real differences related to communication and culture, and providing actual cases for developing critical cultural analysis. The author discusses Japan's distinctiveness as a country that appears both "western" and "eastern" yet actually developed its own unique tradition. He focuses on the perceptual barriers to effective intercultural relations, Japanese communication style, contrastive rhetoric or discourse between Japanese and English, and images of the Japanese in the mass media. Application exercises are provided, as well as guest articles from several foreign residents of Japan, and Japanese studies specialists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761812487
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	12/03/1998
Pages:	394
Product dimensions:	5.68(w) x 8.82(h) x 1.26(d)

About the Author

Ray T. Donahue is Associate Professor of Intercultural Communication and Foreign Studies and Institute for Japanese Studies at Nagoya Gakuin University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Introduction: Rationale and Overview Chapter 4 Barriers to Cross Cultural Understanding Chapter 5 Japanese Communication Style Chapter 6 Contrastive Rhetoric Between Japanese and English Chapter 7 Images of the Japanese in Mass Media Chapter 8 Notes Chapter 9 References Chapter 10 Index Chapter 11 About the Author

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... a thorough overview of Japanese culture...

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National Communication Association (International and Intercultural Communication Division) Outstanding Scholarship Award 19999999

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... a thorough overview of Japanese culture...

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A textbook for students in Japanese, communication, or international studies, assuming no previous background in Japanese language or culture. Donahue (Japanese studies, Nagoya Gakuin U., Japan) first surveys the perceptual barriers to communicating between Japan and North America, then examines the Japanese communication style, differences in discourse, and images of the Japanese in the mass media. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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