《外教社跨文化交际丛书·跨文化能力：交际与跨文化适应的综合理论》是跨文化交际适应领域的一部理论力作，作者是美国俄克拉荷马大学传播学系教授Young Yun Kim(金荣渊)。她从全球化语境中文化交流的发展以及当下跨文化适应研究存在的不足人手，阐述构建综合理论的必要性。她借鉴系统论的原理创建了自己的理论——交际与跨文化适应的综合理论，对跨文化适应的六个关键层面作了深入的探讨，阐述了该理论对跨文化实践的启示。《外教社跨文化交际丛书·跨文化能力：交际与跨文化适应的综合理论》架构清晰，层次分明，包含深刻的人文思想与丰富的理论观点，具有很高的学术价值。
Young Yun Kim(金荣渊)，是美国俄克拉荷马大学传播学系教授，国际跨文化研究院(International Academy for Intercultural Research)现任主席(2013-2015)，主要从事移民群体和少数族裔群体在美国与亚洲一些国家的跨文化适应研究。她担任《应用传播学研究》(Applied Communication Research)、《传播理论》(Communication Theory)和《传播学刊》(Journal of Communication)等11个国际学刊的编委，在《人类交际研究》(Human Communication Research)、《跨文化关系国际学刊》(International Journal of Intercultural Relations)、《传播学年刊》(Communication Year book)和《跨文化交际理论》(Theorizingabout intercultural communication)等刊物与文集上发表了100多篇论文，撰写和编辑了12本专业书籍，其代表作有《跨文化能力——交际与跨文化适应的综合理论》，(Becoming intercultural：An integrative theory of communication and cross-cultural adaptation)以及《与陌生人交际：跨文化交流方法》(Communicating with strangers：An approach to intercultural communication)(2003年与Gudykunst合著)。其中前者最能体现Kim的学术成就。她在此书中深入、完整地阐述了她的跨文化适应理论，该理论推出后得到跨文化交际学界广泛的引征与运用。鉴于Kim在跨文化适应研究方面所做出的杰出贡献，国际传播学会在2006年德国德累斯顿大会上授予她较高学术荣誉的终身成就奖。以下我们介绍Kim的这本理论专著《跨文化能力——交际与跨文化适应的综合理论》。
List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Part Ⅰ.The Background
1.Introduction
Common Experiences of Crossing Cultures
Theorizing About Cross-Cultural Adaptation
2.Existing Approaches to Cross-Cultural Adaptation
Macro-Level and Micro-Level Perspectives
Long-Term and Short-Term Adaptation
Adaptation as Problem and Adaptation
as Learning/Growth
Varying Theoretical Accounts and Empirical
Assessments
Divergent Value Premises：Assimilationism And Pluralism
Toward Integration
PartII.The Theory
3.Organiz2ng Principles
The Domain and Boundary Conditions
Assumptions：Strangers as Open Systems
Mechanics of Theorizing
Empirical Grounding
4.The Process of Cross-Cultural Adaptation
Cultural Adaptation
Cross-Cultural Adaptation
The Stress-Adaptation-Growth Dynamic：
A Process Model
Three Facets of Intercultural Transformation
Axioms
5.The Structure of Cross-Cultural Adaptation
Personal Communication：Host Communication
Competence
Social Communication
Environment
Predisposition
Linking Dimensions and Factors：A Structural Model
Assumptions，Axioms，and Theorems
PartIII.Elaborati On of the Theory
6.Personal Communication
Host Communication Competence
Cognitive Components
Affective Components
Operational Components
Linking Cognitive，Affective，and Operational
Components
7.Social Communic-ation
Host Social Communication
Ethnic Social Communication
Linking Factors of Host and Ethnic Social
Communication
8.Environment
Host Receptivity
Host Conformity Pressure
Ethnic Group Strength
Linking Factors of Communication and Environment
9.Predisposition
Preparedness for Change
Ethnic Proximity
Adaptive Personalit
Linking Factors of Communication and Predisposition
10.Intercultural Transformation
Functional Fitness
Psychological Health
Intercultural Identity
Emergence of Intercultural Personhood
Part IV.The Theory and the Reality
11.Research Considerations
The Theory：Principal Features
Theory·Research Correspondence
Toward Methodological Integration
12.Practical Insights
Understanding Adaptation Potential
Host Environment as Partner
W'dlingness to BeChanged
Managing Stress
Focusing on Communicative Engagement
Cultivating Adaptive Personality
Forging a Pam of Intercultural Personhood
Notes
Refefences
Index
About the AUthor
training and immigration-related assistance.The Vietnamese Associa-tionofIllinois，forexample，assists withmanyofitsmembers'needsby
providing transhtion services，housing information，transportation，and counseling(Kimf 1980).Ethnic retigiOUS organizations and social
clubs help strangers develop contacts and friendships with other
coethnics and provide advice concerning various questions that newly
arrived individuals might have(DeCocq，1976).
Similar supportive functions are also provided by ethnic mass
communication systerns.Ethnic media often provide at least some
information about the host environment.u This informing function of
ethnic media is often carried out through reports on immigration law
changes.tax laws，etiqueRet and other kinds of mformation that helps strangers adapt to the Iocal community.Ethnic media have been a vitalpart of communication processes in many ethnic communities.SuchhasbeenthecaseintheUnitedStatessincethefirstnewspaperaimedatan ethnic population，the Philadelphia Zeitung，produced for the bur-geoning German community in that city，began in 1732.According toZubrzycki(1958)，the ethnic(foreign-language)press in the UnitedStates peaked between 1884 and 1920，with 3，444 newspapers and iour-nals catering mostly to Europeans.Many of the early ethnicnewspapers have withered away，but the influx 0f Hispanics and
Asians has given rise to dozens of new ones.Today，several hundred
ethnic newspapers，in at least 40 languages，are reported to circulatein the United States(Sreenivasan，1996).In some large cities，such as
Chicago，Los Angeles，and New York，ethnic communities also have
access to foreign·language radio and television programs for vary-ing numbers of hours or days per week，in addition to their own
newspapers，movies on videotape，music casseRes，and magazines
available at neighborhood stores(Kelly，1985；Milkr，1987；Subervi.Velez，1986).
Along with community organizations，ethnic media serve as"gate-keepers"(Kurth，1970；Lewin，1951；Shoemaker，1991)or"culture bro-kers"(Snyder，1976).Through ethnic interpersonal ties and media USes，strangersareprovidedwithindirectlinkstothehostenvironment.Ina
study of the Spanish American community in Denver，Kurth(1970)found that newcomers looked to those ethnic friends and acquain-tances with greater access t0 the mainstream Anglo communit、，as"leaders"(P.141).Similarly，Mortland and Ledgerwood(1988)，in a
study of a Southeast Asian refugee community in Boston，identifled
a patronage system mostly invisible to American service providers.The refugee patrons were an integral part of the refugee communica.tion network，controlling the flow of information and resources
between Americans(including service agencies)and the refugee
population.
In addition，ethnic media serve an entertainment function in the
community，By providing entertainment for community members，ethnic media heIp relieve the pressures that strangers feel in dealing
withthehostenvironmentandhelpmeettheirneedsforfunandrelax-ation(Ward&Kennedy，1994).Ethnic media provide vital "emotional
refueling"to newly arrived strangersthelping them to cope with uncer-tainties and the sense of uprootedness(Deusen，1982；King，1984；Krause，1978).
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