本书提出跨文化交际教育应以构建人类命运共同体、实现全球公民教育为目标，在跨文化交际领域经典研究成果的基础上，以儒家思想及视角构建跨文化教育的理论体系。全书概念新颖，立意深远，既可作为高等学校英语类专业本科生、研究生的文化课教材，也可供大学英语文化类课程使用。本书具有以下特点：
融多元文化、多元视角和多学科理论，在跨文化交际中学习中国文化：在注重知识性、思想性的同时，培养学生的人文素养。
全书提供大量典型、真实的社会、文化案例，通过合作学习、体验式学习等方法，使学生真实感受跨文化交际的应用场景。

PART Ⅰ Imperative and Perspective
Chapter 1 Imperatives for Intercultural Communication
Chapter 2 The Anthropocosmic Perspective on Intercultural Communication
PART Ⅱ Foundations and Processes
Chapter 3 Communication, Culture and Intercultural Communication
Chapter 4 Becoming a Sensitive Intercultural Perceiver
Chapter 5 Intercultural Communication at Cultural Level: Values and Value Orientations Across Cultures
Chapter 6 Intercultural Communication at Individual Level: Personality, Individual Values, and Self-Construal
Recognizing and Accepting Differences
Chapter 7 Lariguage as Social and Cultural Practice at Transcultural and Global Levels
Chapter 8 What Is Said, What Is Interpreted, What Is Meant, and What Is the Effect?
Chapter 9 Nonverbal Behavior as Social and Cultural Practice Across Cultures
PART Ⅳ Intercultural Dialogue Toward a Community of Shared Future
Chapter 10 Critical Thinking, Critical Self-Reflection, and Critical Action
Chapter 11 Developing Sensitivity to and Criticality of Stereotype, Prejudice and Ethnocentrism
Chapter 12 Intercultural Dialogue Toward a Community of Shared Future for Mankind
Chapter 13 Intercultural Communicative Competence for Global Citizenship
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