Includes bibliographical references and index.

Concepts in intercultural communication -- Building a global community -- Overview of intercultural communication -- Exploring surface and deep levels of intercultural communication -- Global community engagement -- Education for the global citizen -- Intercultural communication in the global workplace -- Cultural perceptions on environment and global contexts -- Technology as cultural power and its social impact -- Critical issues in intercultural communication -- Intercultural communication in practice : challenges and barriers -- Critical perspectives in intercultural communication events -- Family -- Religion -- History -- Culture, gender, and race.