A cross-cultural comparison of communication orientations between americans and taiwanese

Communication Quarterly

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 359-374

  Hsu, Chia Fang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Apprehension; Argumentativeness; Communication competence; Cross cultural comparison; Disclosiveness; Gender differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951711118     PISSN: 01463373     EISSN: 17464102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01463370701497831     Document Type: Article

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