Reviews intercultural communication research as it is published by communication journals. Examines how culture is conceptualized in intercultural communication research. Discusses alternate ways in which "culture" might be conceptualized and explores the consequences that this might have for intercultural communication scholarship. (SR)

Investigates the influence of stage of romantic relationship and culture (American or Chinese) on attributional confidence, perceived similarity, and network involvement. Uses multivariate analysis of variance (both summation and dispersion), revealing that stage of relationship influenced social networks, and that culture influenced high-context…

Compares the ways in which five conversational constraints (clarity, effectiveness, perceived imposition, consideration for the other's feelings, and concern about self devaluation) are perceived across gender groups. Finds that participants' sex had no significant main effect on the perceived importance of all conversational constraints in any of…

Investigates the behavioral manifestations of stereotype-based expectancies. Finds that undergraduate students who went into a cross-cultural interaction with a relatively developed, neutral preconception about someone from another culture behaved different verbally than those who entered an interaction with minimal preconceptions. (SR)

Investigates changing interpersonal relationships in contemporary Taiwanese society through an examination of popular books on interpersonal skills and communication, translated from American and Japanese sources. Analyzes the modern cultural constructs of "self,""relationship," and "communication" from the…

Investigates the relationship between people's orientation toward independent and interdependent self-construals and the perceived importance of three interactive constraints in organizational communication situations. Indicates that self-construals are systematically related to perceptions of the importance of clarity, efforts to avoid hurting…

Finds that New Zealand students sampled were significantly less willing to communicate and experienced greater communication apprehension than U.S. students. Finds significant negative correlations for United States students between communication apprehension and humor variables (liking of humor, sensitivity to humor, and coping humor), whereas…

Examines the means of and correlations between perceptions of willingness to communicate, communication apprehension, communication competence, and introversion of college students in the United States and Sweden. Results indicate that the monocultural research on this topic in the United States has limited generalizability. (SR)

Data from two studies suggest that (1) people who make friends in their home culture also tend to make friends while in another culture and (2) close intracultural and intercultural relationships have analogous patterns. (PD)

Investigates how students' ethnic backgrounds relate to their views of instructional communication processes. Assesses the structural relationships among teacher immediacy, course utility, and teaching effectiveness for Anglo-American, Latino, African-American, and Asian-American students at the middle and end of a 10-week term. (SR)