Communication and Cross-Cultural Adaptation

Preface

PART I. INTRODUCTION

1. Contexts of cross-cultural adaptation

2. Existing approaches: review and analysis

PART II. THE THEORY

3. Organising principles and assumptions

4. Cross-cultural adaptation: axioms

5. Theorems and the model

PART III. ELABORATION OF THE THEORY

6. Host communication competence

7. Social communication

8. Host environment and predisposition

9. Adaptation outcomes

PART IV. THE THEORY AND THE REALITY

10. Testing the theory: toward an integrative approach

11. Practical considerations