What is culture? / Werner Delanoy -- What is intercultural communication? / Jan D. ten Thije -- Rethinking intercultural competence / Jürgen Bolten -- Interculturality or transculturality? / Heinz Antor -- Critical intercultural communication and the digital environment / Thomas K. Nakayama -- From shared values to cultural dimensions : a comparative review / Elizabeth A. Tuleja and Michael Schachner -- Towards integrative intercultural communication / Liisa Salo-Lee -- The power of literature / Birgit Neumann -- Psychoanalytic approaches to memory and intercultural communication / Jolanta A. Drzewiecka -- Sociological approaches / Uttaran Dutta & Judith N. Martin -- Introducing intercultural ethics / Richard Evanoff -- Decolonising gender and intercultural communication in transnational contexts / Lara Martin Lengel, Yannick Kluch, and Ahmet Atay -- Migration in the digital social mediasphere / Peter Stockinger -- Linguistic politeness / Claus Ehrhardt -- Contemporary literature and intercultural understanding / Gesine Schiewer -- Enhancing intercultural skills through storytelling / Stephan Wolting -- Cinema as intercultural communication / Joanne Leal -- Intercultural memory and violence in Jewish literature / Verena Dolle -- Intercultural communication in social work practice / Antonio López Peláez and Emilio José Gómez Ciriano -- Intercultural education in study abroad contexts / Jane Jackson -- Intercultural communication in the courtroom : the doctrine of public policy / Bertil Cottier -- Intercultural communication in the context of the hyper mobility of the school population in and out Europe / Emmanuelle le Pichon -- Culture and Management / Marie-Thérèse Claes -- Language and othering in contemporary Europe / Anne Ife -- Black British writing : Benjamin Zephaniah's didactic poetics / Deirdre Osborne -- Cultural encounters in contemporary Latin American cinema : intersections of transnationality / Sarah Barrow -- Religion and intercultural communication / Margaret Littler -- Irish-English cultural encounters in the diaspora / Bronwen Walter -- Intercultural dimensions in academic mobility : South Korea and Spain / F. Manuel Montalbán, Francisco M. Llorente and Evelina Zurita -- Defining, developing and assessing intercultural competence / Darla Deardorff -- Effects of social media use on cultural adaptation / Stephen M. Croucher and Ming Li -- A constructivist approach to assessing intercultural communication competence / Milton J. Bennett.

A highly interdisciplinary overview of the wide spectrum of current international research and professional practice in intercultural communication, this is a key reference book for students, lecturers and professionals alike. Key examples of contrastive, interactive, imagological and interlingual approaches are discussed, as well as the impact of cultural, economic and socio-political power hierarchies in cultural encounters, essential for contemporary research in critical intercultural communication and postcolonial studies. The Handbook also explores the spectrum of professional applications of that research, from intercultural teaching and training to the management of culturally mixed groups, facilitating use by professionals in related fields. Theories are introduced systematically using ordinary language explanations and examples, providing an engaging approach to readers new to the field. Students and researchers in a wide variety of disciplines, from cultural studies to linguistics, will appreciate this clear yet in-depth approach to an ever-evolving contemporary field.