Updating an earlier issue of the "International and Intercultural Communication Annual" (Volume VII, 1983), this collection of 13 essays represents the major approaches to the study of intercultural communication, as well as of communication in general. Papers in the collection are: "On Theorizing Intercultural Communication" (Young Yun Kim); "A Taxonomic Approach to Intercultural Communication" (Larry E. Sarbaugh); "A Constructivist Theory of Communication and Culture" (James L. Applegate and Howard E. Sypher); "Coordinated Management of Meaning: A Critical Theory" (Vernon E. Cronen and others); "Cultural Identity: An Interpretive Perspective" (Mary Jane Collier and Milt Thomas); "Uncertainty and Anxiety" (William B. Gudykunst); "Communication Accommodation in Intercultural Encounters" (Cynthia Gallois and others); "Episode Representations in Intercultural Communication" (Joseph P. Forgas); "Intercultural Conflict Styles: A Face-Negotiation Theory" (Stella Ting-Toomey); "Network Theory in Intercultural Communication" (June Ock Yum); "A Theory of Adaptation in Intercultural Dyads" (Huber W. Ellingsworth); "The Convergence Theory and Intercultural Communication" (D. Lawrence Kincaid); and "Intercultural Transformation: A Systems Theory" (Young Yun Kim and Brent D. Ruben). (Chapters include references.) (RS)