TY - BOOK AU - Starosta,William J. AU - Chen,Guo-Ming TI - Ferment in the intercultural field: axiology/value/praxis SN - 0761929037 (pbk.) : AV - HM1211 .F47 2003 PY - 2003/// CY - Thousand Oaks, Calif. PB - Sage KW - Intercultural communication KW - Research KW - Study and teaching N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Section 1. Toward a fifth moment in intercultural communication research. "Ferment," an ethic of caring, and the corrective power of dialogue / William J. Starosta and Guo-Ming Chen. A postmodern critique of cross-cultural and intercultural communication research: contesting essentialism, positivist dualism and eurocentricity / Rueyling Chuang -- Section 2. ethics and axiology in intercultural communication. Intercultural communication as a social problem in a globalized context: ethics of praxis research techniques / W.F Santiago-Valles. Discord in intercultural negotiation: toward an ethic of communicability / Andrew R. Smith -- Section 3. Cultural communication in historical context. Communication markers of at-risk Southeast Asian refugee youth / Steven C. Combs and Kerry A. Causey. Academic witnessing, French cultures, and the echoes of Holocaust memories / Marouf Hasian, Jr. -- Section 4. Identity negotiation in dealings with the other. White positionalities and cultural contracts: critiquing entitlement, theorizing and exploring the negotiation of white identities / Ronald L. Jackson II and Katherine Simpson. A review of identity research in communication theory: re-conceptualizing cultural identity / Chang In Shin and Ronald L. Jackson, II -- Section 5. On alternative centrisms. Beyond Eurocentrism in the intercultural field: searching for an Asiacentric paradigm / Yoshitaka Miike. On theorizing; difference: culture as centrism / William J. Starosta and Guo-Ming Chen ER -