Introducing Intercultural Communication, Global Cultures and Contexts

all from the University of Queensland, Australia) (2011) say their main impetus for writing this book was to situate "intercultural communication in a broader context that will help to bridge the gap left by existing textbooks and will have a wider application beyond the US context" (p. 6).Sadly, the range of the book is limited, offering insights into and explanations about culture in North America, Europe, Asia and Oceanic countries but ignoring Africa and South America.The book is aimed at students following formal college courses, but the authors hope general readers, embarking on a journey of self-learning, will also find it useful.With that aim in mind the authors have successfully produced a book that is clear and well organised, but the pace of writing is sometimes breathless, and there is an overuse of the exclamation mark to provide emphasis, especially in the introductory chapter, which quickly becomes tiresome.Each chapter contains a list of learning objectives and at least one 'theory corner' at which the work of an important theorist is introduced with suggestions for further reading.The