University Press of America
Pages: 226
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978-0-7618-4453-2 • Paperback • December 2008 • $57.99 • (£45.00)
Richard Wilkins, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at Baruch College, CUNY, where he specializes in the study of language and social interaction and the ethnography of communication. His work includes articles published in Journal of Communication, Atlantic Journal of Communication, Communication Reports, and International Journal of Intercultural Relations.
Pekka Isotalus, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Speech Communication and Voice Research, University of Tampere, Finland, and leader of the national Doctoral School of Communication Studies. He is specialized in the study of political communication and mediated interpersonal communication. He has edited several books and has published articles in the Quarterly Journal of Communication, Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research, and Nordicom Review.
Chapter 1 Speech Culture in Finland
Chapter 2 White Lies or Relative Truth? Cultural Considerations of the Finnish Concept of Honesty and Intercultural Learning
Chapter 3 Coding Personhood through Cultural Terms and Practices: Silence and Quietude as a Finnish Natural Way of Being
Chapter 4 The Asiasta Puhuminen Event
Chapter 5 Cultural Dialectics in Finnish Advising Relationships
Chapter 6 Finnish Supportive Communication: A Qualitative Study on Middle-Aged Singles' Support Seeking
Chapter 7 The Silence of the Finnish Sauna
Chapter 8 The Meaning of Intangibles in International Business Relations: Latin American Perceptions of Finns as negotiators
Chapter 9 The Finnish Criminal Trial as a Speech Communication Situation
Chapter 10 Agreement and Disagreement in Focus: A Cultural Perspective on Televised Election Debates