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Cross-cultural communication

Index of SIL publications on Cross-cultural communication listed by country.

See only SIL publications on Cross-cultural communication available online or for purchase from SIL International Publications.

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General works

• ANDERSON, John L., author. 1990. Cultural assumptions behind the first epistle of John.
• ANDERSON, John L., author. 1998. What does the ordinary Joe know? The importance of testing a translation as part of a consultant check.
• AVERY, Thomas L., author. 1998. "Musical ministry in areas where Western music has penetrated."
• BARBER, Stephen J., author. 1995. Literacy use and incorporation in culture: The ‘how’ and ‘how much’ of literacy.
• BARNWELL, Katharine, author. 1994. Supplementary helps in Scripture publications.
• BEINE, Dave K., author. 1995. It’s all relative, isn’t it?: Cultural relativism revisited.
• BEINE, Dave K., author. 1996. Review of: The mystery of culture contacts, historical reconstruction, and text analysis: an emic approach, by Kenneth L. Pike and Kurt R. Jankowsky.
• BERRY, John W., author. 1990. "Imposed etics, emics, and derived etics: Their conceptual and operational and operational status in cross-cultural psychology."
• BETTS, LaVera, author. 1971. The Parintintín world view.
• BIRD, Craig, author. 1991. Ministering through media: Le Combat speaks to fears.
• BOLYANATZ, Alexander H., author. 1998. "Messages from symbols that we often miss."
• BORNEMAN, Barry, author. 1994. Restructuring a workshop in accordance with cultural learning styles.
• BRANTLEY, Brent I., author. 1995. Intercultural Community Work training: An assessment.
• BRUSSOW, Herbert L., author. 1993. Facilitation for intercultural work by applying the principles of andragogy and acculturation to self-direction and interdependence for life-long contextual learning.
• BRUSSOW, Herbert L.; KOHLS, L. Robert, editors. 1995. Training know-how for cross-cultural and diversity trainers.
• BURQUEST, Donald A.; MCKINNEY, Carol V.; PIKE, Kenneth L.; SIMONS, Gary F., authors; JANKOWSKY, Kurt R., editor. 1996. The mystery of culture contacts, historical reconstruction, and text analysis: An emic approach.
• BURQUEST, Donald A.; PIKE, Kenneth L., authors. 1996. "The importance of purposive behavior in text analysis."
• BUTLER, Herbert W., author. 1997. Developmental change and cultural rules.
• CLARK, David; ROBINSON, Clinton D. W., authors. 1998. Ethnic diversity and social harmony.
• CLIFTON, Deborah A., author. 1997. Review of: Appropriate methodology and social context, by Adrian Holliday.
• COOPER, Russell E., author. 1994. Look before the pencil leaps.
• CRITCHFIELD, Robert, author. 1994. Why do we publish Scripture portions?.
• CROFTS, Marjorie, author. 1994. Metaphors in the five Ts.
• DEIBLER, Ellis W., author. 1991. "Checking translation for meaning."
• DOTY, Phyllis, author. 1981. Intercultural human relations training.
• DOTY, Stephen, author. 1996. Should a translation advisor learn the target language?.
• DYE, T. Wayne, author. 1993. To see the work as others see it.
• EGNER, Inge, author. 1994. Politeness in language: The case of interrogatives.
• EGNER, Inge, author. 2002. The speech act of promising in an intercultural perspective.  
• ESCHER, Marilyn, author. 1998. A linguist faces culture.
• FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1992. Review of: Talking voices: Repetition, dialogue, and imagery in conversational discourse, by Deborah Tannen.
• FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1995. Training in the SIL context.
• FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1998. Review of: The subtle slant: a cross-linguistic discourse analysis model for evaluating interethnic conflict in the press, by Richard G. McGarry.
• GREEN, Diana, author. 1994. On translating ‘sacrifice,’ ‘offering,’ and ‘altar’.
• GUTT, Ernst-August, author. 1996. "Implicit information in literacy translation: a relevance-theoretic perspective."
• HASSELBRING, Sue, author. 1998. Public relations on surveys: What impressions do we give people?.
• HATCHER, Robert Timothy, author. 2007. Review of: Globalized e-learning cultural changes, Andrea Edmundson, editor.  
• HERSMAN, Lynda R., author. 1995. Grid-group analysis of national structures for international mission teams.
• HERSMAN, Lynda R., author. 1998. Cultural understanding in a multinational team.
• HIEBERT, Paul G., author. 1987. Critical contextualization.
• HILL, Harriet S., author. 2006. The Bible at cultural crossroads: from translation to communication.
• JENNINGS, George, author. 1986. Implications in Western psycho-cultural studies for cross-cultural mental pathologies and therapies.
• JONES, Larry B., author. 2005. ""Prophetic" NGO-government relationships: What would Daniel do?."
• KINDELL, Gloria E., author. 1996. Ethnopoetics: finding poetry.
• KLUGE, Angela, author. 2000. The analysis of intercultural miscommunication: three approaches.
• KOK, Joe, author. 1995. East meets west in business meetings.
• KUHN, Hanna, author. 1997. Building a ramp to the New Testament.
• LARSON, Mildred L., author. 1985. "The communication situation and translation."
• LAW, Judy, author. 1996. Sheltered instruction: An introduction.
• LEWIS, M. Paul, author. 1990. Success and human agency.
• LINDVALL, Richard A., author. 1983. Overseas effectiveness: a study of the opinions of SIL CD workers and nationals.
• LOOS, Eugene E., author. 1999. "Proposed tests for the validity of an analysis of logical connectives."
• MALMSTROM, Marilyn, editor. 1993. Reaping the benefits: Nonprint media vignettes.
• MAYERS, Marvin K., author. 1979. Training across cultures.
• MCKINNEY, Carol V., author. 1994. Review of: Transculturation: The cultural factor in translation and other communication tasks, by R. Daniel Shaw.
• MCKINNEY, Carol V.; PIKE, Kenneth L., authors. 1996. "Understanding misunderstanding as cross-cultural emic clash."
• MCLARREN, Janet; MCLARREN, Paul, authors. 1999. Review of: Windows on the world of Jesus: time travel to ancient Judea, by Bruce J. Malina.
• MIEHLE, Helen L., author. 1996. Review of: After Babel: Aspects of language and translation, by George Steiner.
• MOORE, Barbara J., author. 1996. Evaluating research methodology.
• MYERS, Bryant, author. 1994. What message did they receive?.
• NEELEY, Paul, author. 1994. Integrating soft and hard media: indigenous hymnody and visuals.
• NEELEY, Paul, author. 1997. "Interview with Prof. J. H. K. Nketia."
• NEELEY, Paul, author. 1997. Review of: Parallel worlds: an anthropologist and a writer encounter Africa, by Alma Gottlieb and Philip Graham.
• OLSON, Dennis, author. 1995. Community development through indigenous leadership.  
• OLSON, Michael L., author. 1984. ‘God says you’re inferior’.
• ORWIG, Carol J., author. 1998. Learning how to communicate clearly, though indirectly.
• PETERSON, Mark F.; PIKE, Kenneth L., authors. 2002. "Emics and etics for organizational studies: a lesson in contrast from linguistics."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1988. "Cultural relativism in relation to constraints on world view: An emic perspective."
• PORTER, Doris, author. 1993. Video in vernacular language projects.
• RAY, Sandra K., author. 1995. The impact of culture on multicultural team development.
• ROBINSON, Clinton D. W., author. 1988. Development intervention in a multilingual environment: Matters arising.
• ROBINSON, Clinton D. W., author. 1995. "Colloquy: Phillipson’s ‘Linguistic imperialism: Linguistic imperialism and local languages’."
• SANG Zhonggang, author. 2006. "A relevance theory perspective on translating the Implicit Information in literary texts."  
• SHAW, R. Daniel, author. 1994. Transculturation: Perspective, process, and prospect.
• SHELDEN, Deidre B., author. 1999. Training southeast Asians to test translation for comprehension.
• SMITH, John, author. 1995. Working in country X.
• SPAETH, Carole, author. 1997. Can there be writing without reading?.
• SPIELMANN, Margaret, author. 1996. Mentoring as a model for training MTTs.
• STOFFEL, Alura M., author. 1994. Drawing and selecting Biblical illustrations.
• TAYLOR, Julie, author. 1998. "Reflections from eastern Africa."
• THOMAS, Barbara, author. 1998. Review of: Different games, different rules: Why Americans and Japanese misunderstand each other, by Haru Yamuda.
• TRACY, Hugh, author. 1995. Review of: The skilled facilitator: practical wisdom for developing effective groups, by Roger M. Schwarz.
• TRACY, Hugh, author. 1995. Team philosophy and cross-cultural workers: maximizing the benefits.
• TRACY, Hugh, author. 1996. How can we use indigenous knowledge systems?.
• WANNEMACHER, Mark, author. 1996. Some notes on teaching in non-Western cultures.
• WEBER, David J., author. 1995. The team approach.
• WILLIAMS, Kenneth L., author. 1973. Characteristics of the more successful and less successful missionaries.
• WILLIAMSON, Barrie, author. 1994. Information overload or how many pigs can you get on a truck?.
• WILSON, John D., author. 1992. What it takes to reach people in oral cultures.
• YOST, Willa D., author. 1990. Educational implications derived from a critical incident analysis of the family cross-cultural reentry transition process.

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Cameroon

• ABBOT, Elinor, author. 1986. Cultural aids for translators: The ANQR charts.

Côte d’Ivoire

• GOERLING, Fritz, author. 1990. Translation of ‘Son of God’ into Jula.

Ethiopia

• UNSETH, Peter, author. 1997. Fitting in with local assumptions about literacy: Some Ethiopian experiences.

Ghana

• HUNT, Geoffrey R., author. 1989. My logic doesn’t match yours: Limits to translation imposed by cognitive development.

Mali

• CARLSON, Joyce, author. 1995. The stranger’s eyes.  

Nigeria

• KUHN, Hanna, author. 1990. Where should we begin?.

Sudan

• ANDERSON, John L., author. 1991. The receptor culture and the consultant’s visit.

Americas

Brazil

• SHEFFLER, E. Margaret, author. 1985. Some cultural correlates for Galatians.

Colombia

• BRUSSOW, Herbert L., author. 1988. Managing high-context relationships through experiential processes for intercultural ministry.
• HEADLAND, Paul, author. 1997. Words that get people to do things: Translating imperative meanings.
• TRACY, Hugh, author. 1988. Land, the key to Bíntukwa ethnic survival, Colombia.
• URIBE, Hilda; WALTER, Stephen L., authors. 1978. An application of the semantic differential to the analysis of meaning across language and culture.

Ecuador

• BORMAN, Roberta, author. 1986. Music as an aid to literacy.

Guatemala

• MAYERS, Marvin K., editor. 1979. Bibliography for training across cultures.
• MAYERS, Marvin K.; WALTER, Stephen L., authors. 1981. Review of: Bilingual multicultural education and the professional: from theory to practice, Henry T. Trueba and Carol Barnett-Mizrahi, editors.
• MAYERS, Marvin K.; WALTER, Stephen L., authors. 1981. Review of: Handbook of intercultural communication, Molefi Kete Asante, Eileen Newmark and Cecil A. Blake, editors.
• MAYERS, Marvin K.; WALTER, Stephen L., authors. 1981. Review of: Helping kids learn multi-cultural concepts: a handbook of strategies, by Michael G. Pasternak, editor.
• MAYERS, Marvin K.; WALTER, Stephen L., authors. 1981. Review of: Multicultural nonsexist education: a human relations approach, Nicholas Colangelo, Cecelia H. Foxley and Dick Dustin, editors.

Mexico

• BEEKMAN, John, author. 1962. "Translation and cultural background."
• LAUVER, Philip J.; SCHRAM, Judith L., authors. 1988. "Alienation in international students."
• PIKE, Eunice V., author. 1994. The last five feet.
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1986. "Servants."
• SLOCUM, Marianna C., author. 1958. "Christianization of vocabulary in the translation of the Tzeltal New Testament."
• WONDERLY, William L., author. 1952. "Information-correspondence and the translation of Ephesians into Zoque (part 1 of 2)."
• WONDERLY, William L., author. 1953. "Information-correspondence and the translation of Ephesians into Zoque (part 2 of 2)."
• ZYLSTRA, Carol F., author. 1991. Anthropological considerations for the book of Luke.

Peru

• CHÁVEZ, Margarethe S., author. 1985. Guilt and shame in cross-cultural perspective.
• DAGGETT, James, author. 1991. "Dilemas que se presentan en los primeros contactos con un grupo etnico aislado."
• DAVIS, Patricia M., author. Available: 2011; Created: 1996. Lo que hemos aprendido sobre al aprendizaje.
• FAST, Peter W., author. 1952. "Problems of basic vocabulary in a culturally restricted area."
• WEBER, David J., author. 1999. The Zen of bibliocology.

United States

• GRIMES, Joseph E., author. 1999. "Reactions to Bu: basilect meets mesolect in Hawai’i."
• MCCOLLUM, Frank A., author. 2000. Cultural awareness in the educational program of a Korean-American church.

Asia

Japan

• DEL CORRO, Anicia, author. 1990. "An analysis of polysemy in Kapampangan and Japanese, using the systems correspondence theory."  

Malaysia

• BUDHISANTOSO, S.; JONES, Larry B., authors. 1998. "Linguistic challenges to rural community development."
• HARRIS, A. Suzanne, author. 1997. "The Rundum rebellion: The legend."
• MILLER, Carolyn P., author. 1991. "New challenges for mother tongue advocates."

Nepal

• GLOVER, Warren W., author. 1990. "Translation, communication, and evangelism."

Philippines

• BARLAAN, Rodolfo R., author. 2000. "Cultural consulting with Filipinos."
• BARLAAN, Rodolfo R., author. 2003. "Cultural consulting with Filipinos."
• DEL CORRO, Anicia, author. 1990. "An analysis of polysemy in Kapampangan and Japanese, using the systems correspondence theory."  
• ELKINS, Richard E., author. 1993. "Blood sacrifice and the dynamics of supernatural power among the Manobo of Mindanao: Some missiological implications."
• ELKINS, Richard E., author. 1994. "Conversion or acculturation? A study of culture change and its effect on evangelism in Mindanao indigenous societies."
• HEADLAND, Thomas N., author. 1981. Information rate, information overload, and communication problems in the Casiguran Dumagat New Testament.
• LYNIP, Karen G., author. 2000. Dynamics of cross-cultural partnership: SIL and the Translators Association of the Philippines.
• MAYERS, Marvin K., author. 1980. A Look at Filipino Lifestyles.  
• NEWELL, Leonard E., author. 2005. "Bridging cultures with a bilingual dictionary."

Thailand

• PETERSON, Mary M., author. 1991. Miscommunication in the classroom: Discourse level considerations.
• SAMERMIT, Potchanat; THOMAS, David D., editors. 1989. Linguistics and worldview: In honor of Professor Kenneth L. Pike: Papers from the academic seminar on ‘‘Linguistics and worldview’’ held at Thammasat University, Bangkok, February 17-19, 1986.
• SAURMAN, Todd, author. 1996. "Exploring Thai music in Bangkok."

Pacific

Australia

• BAIN, Margaret S., author. 1992. The Aboriginal-white encounter: Towards better communication.
• BAIN, Margaret S., author. 2005. 'White men are liars': another look at Aboriginal-Western interactions.
• CHRISTA, Christa Margarete, author. 1999. "Beth Roberts’ ‘Manganinnie’: Authenticity and reconstruction in the German version of an Australian children’s classic."
• KENNEDY, Judith; KENNEDY, Rodney J., authors. 1990. Adha gar tidi: Cultural sensitivity in Western Torres Strait.
• SAYERS, Barbara J., author. 1998. A fair go: Aboriginal living and learning in the dominant Australian culture.
• SAYERS, Barbara J., author. 1999. "A pragmatic analysis of a failed cross-cultural communication."
• SAYERS, Barbara J., author. 2000. The Aurukun church: worldview factors related to the understanding of the Christian message.

New Caledonia

• SPIELMANN, Margaret, author. 1993. Training mother-tongue translators with application to Melanesia.

Papua New Guinea

• CAMPBELL, Jo Anne, author. 1991. Review of: The benefits of language learning for literacy specialists, by Kaye Stender.
• CHENOWETH, Vida, author. 1985. Music in cross-cultural communication.
• CONRAD, Robert J., author. 1990. "Problems in translating from Tok Pisin to Mufian."
• DYE, Sally Folger, author. 1983. Conflicting standards of goodness.
• FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1990. "Cross-cultural advertising: Tok Pisin and English in Papua New Guinea."
• LARSEN, Marlys; LARSEN, Robert E., authors. 2000. Build on what they know: indigenous knowledge and training programs.
• LITHGOW, David, author. 1973. "Strengths and weaknesses of an untrained translator."
• LITTERAL, Robert L., author. 1988. Community Partnership in Communications for Ministry.  
• LOVING, Richard, author. 1994. A comparison of Western and Papua New Guinean leadership styles.
• MALONE, Dennis L., author. 1991. "Anthropological implications for literacy."
• MALONE, Susan E., author. 1988. Partners in change: Developing receptor-oriented cross-cultural innovation programs.
• MALONE, Susan E., author. 1997. Cooperation, conflict, and complementarity: a study of relationships among organizations involved in mother tongue literacy and pre-primary education in Papua New Guinea.
• MCELHANON, Kenneth A., author. 1975. "Appreciating the possibilities of Tok Pisin: Evangelism and the use of Tok Pisin idioms."
• SHAW, R. Daniel, author. 1988. Transculturation: The cultural factor in translation and other communication tasks.
• SHAW, R. Daniel, author. 1990. "Culture and evangelism: a model for missiological strategy."
• SOUTHWELL, Neville, author. 1991. Media for the message.
• STENDER, Kaye, author. 1988. The benefits of language learning for literacy specialists.
• WATERS, Glenys, author. 2000. The impact of Melanesian cultures on education and development programmes.

Solomon Islands

• DAVIS, Donald R., author. 1985. The how-to and the why (training across cultures: Observations and comments).
• PIKE, Julia A. E., author. 1991. Cross-cultural awareness.