The Oxford Encyclopedia of Intergroup Communication
2-volume set

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Intergroup Communication is the first dedicated to this burgeoning field within communication studies. The essays in this collection explore geographic regions, communication processes, theories, and applied areas of interest, all pertaining to how human communication processes are influenced by, and themselves influence, the groups to which we all belong. In an authoritative volume, the project brings together research, theory, and application on both well-established and newly explored intergroup communication situations. The new perspectives not covered in earlier works include: - how word order affects social status - how metaphors shape intergroup relations - how sexual orientation is communicated - how interpersonal and intergroup communication intersect - what neuroscience contributes to intergroup communication - and how intergroup communication operates in previously unacknowledged settings such as the military or in the political arena. Given that the "intergroup umbrella" essentially integrates and transcends many of the traditional conceptual boundaries in communication (such as media, health, intercultural, organizational and so forth), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Intergroup Communication provides an intriguing window into the communicative world of intergroup relations so integral to other social sciences. The encyclopedia will be an essential reference for anyone interested in intergroup communication issues, particularly research scholars and graduate students.

Howard Giles is Professor and Graduate Advisor in the Department of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara. He has previously served as chair of the department, as well as assistant dean of Undergraduate Studies in the College of Letters and Science. In 2009, he received the Mark L. Knapp Award of the National Communication Association for career contributions to the study of interpersonal communication. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the British Psychological Society, and the International Communication Association, among others. He is the former president of the International Communication Association and International Association for the Study of Language & Social Psychology. Dr. Giles was also the co-founding chair of the ICA Interest Group on intergroup communication and the Editor of the above recent Handbook of Intergroup Communication. Jake Harwood (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara) is Professor of Communication and former director of the Gerontology program at the University of Arizona. He is author of Understanding Communication and Aging (2007) and Communication and Music (2015), and co-editor of The Dynamics of Intergroup Communication (2011). He has published over 100 articles and chapters on intergenerational communication, intergroup communication and communication and music, including in journals such as Human Communication Research, Journal of Communication, and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.