Role of Intercultural Communication in Multicultural or Culturally Diverse Societies

Dear Colleagues,

Intercultural communication (IC) is not subjected to any specific society within an interpersonal relationship. Rather, IC has become a point of serious concern for culturally diverse or multicultural societies. The globalization and internationalization of higher education has made IC a serious concern. People from all over the world travel from one culture to another for work, education, travelling, and for many other purposes. The exposure to a new society merits more than the IC in their daily life. Intercultural experts have introduced various terms such as, intercultural effectiveness (ICE), intercultural competence (ICC), intercultural adjustment (ICA), intercultural adaptation (ICN), and several others to document and explore their communication effectiveness to adjustment and adaptation to a new society for better living. The current literature contains a variety of theories, models, perspectives, and approaches that unpack these terms more efficiently for such persons that are exposed to multicultural societies.

This Special Issue is specifically designed to welcome a wide range of research that cover almost every aspect of intercultural communication in culturally diverse societies. Three major groups of the population are potentially welcomed in this Issue: students, workers, and travellers. It is also observed that publications from regions such as Asia, East Asia, and South Asia are not well represented in the mainstream research of intercultural communication. Therefore, the researchers from such contexts are encouraged in this Special Issue. The scope of this Special Issue is broad and covers interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research that highlights the representation of underrepresented societies. Studies focusing on the specific cultural context or multicultural contexts will also be appreciated in this Special Issue. We welcome all kinds of manuscripts including book reviews, conceptual paper, research essays, original research, brief research reports, meta-analysis and others.

Prof. Dr. Anastassia Zabrodskaja
Guest Editor

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• intercultural communication
• intercultural effectiveness
• intercultural adjustment
• intercultural adaptation
• cultural awareness
• cultural flexibility
• cultural assimilation
• contextual representation
• acculturation
• multicultural societies