Journal of Intercultural Communication Research

The Journal of Intercultural Communication Research (JICR) is a publication of 3 issues yearly by the World Communication Association. JICR publishes qualitative and quantitative research that focuses on interrelationships between culture and communication. Generally, research published in JICR emphasises non-mediated contexts, reporting results from either cross-cultural comparative research or results from other types of research concerning the ways culture affects human symbolic activities.

The JICR Volume 36 Issue 1 2007, for example, includes articles on testing four immediacy-learning models in United States (US), Chinese, German, and Japanese classrooms; on testing the universality of attachment theory in Puerto Rico, the US, and India; on qualitative research addressing paedagogical issues related to race in the classroom in the US; and on applying, in a Malaysian organisation, the Western proposition that male and female employees differ in preferences of the contextualising language for work-related communications.

Authors in Volume 35 Issue 3 2006 of the JICR describe communicative dynamics of police-civilian encounters in South African and the US; a comparison of the US and China on face need concerns and apology intention; clarification of the Thai communication behaviours associated with intercultural communication effectiveness; and college students' knowledge and perceptions about sexually transmitted infections (STIs), attitudes, and practices of college students in Malaysia, Singapore, the US, and England regarding condom use, as well as articles on additional topics.

This is a journal of the World Communication Association.