Experiencing Intercultural Communication: An Introduction

by Judith N. Martin, Thomas K. Nakayama

This introductory level textbook offers students a framework to begin building their intercultural communication skills. "Experiencing Intercultural Communication: An Introduction" provides a number of pedagogical aids to help students achieve fluency in these skills, including chapter outlines, chapter objectives, suggested websites and other resources for further learning, key terms, activities in each chapters, bulleted chapter summaries, and more. As an introductory text, the material is accessible and encourages students to seek out more information. By giving the students a framework to begin understanding the complexities of intercultural interaction, students begin the process of learning about both other cultures and their relationships with their own culture.

Genres: School, Nonfiction, Education, Textbooks

432 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2013

Reviews

[Debby Tiner]

Read this one online, which is never my favorite experience. It’s okay for a communication textbook but not my favorite.
Important topics though. Definitely everyone should learn more about intercultural communication in this day and age.

[lil-lo]

I read the 2025 edition for school. I think a lot more people need to be taking intercultural communication classes in this day and age; even if they think they’re well versed in the topic, there’s always something more to learn.

[Mathar Munshi]

“Erasing the crimes of the past doesn’t help us avoid them in the future”

[Marie-Sharrane]

I wish the definitions in this text would be better developed. You cannot define the word using the word(s) in the definition. One should not have to use the internet to define the vocabulary words.

[Jessica López-Barkl]

This is a very dry, albeit thorough book on Intercultural Communication. I will continue to use it because it is mostly unbiased and does give a thorough overview of the issues and communications studies in general.

[Adrianne]

This is an excellent book to begin to understand culture, one's own, those around one and how we can communicate with each other. Yes, it's a textbook, but a course and a textbook for real life. Highly recommend to anyone.

[Jackie]

Another good textbook.