It Goes Without Saying

It Goes Without Saying: Culture as Communication, by John C. Condon, presents more than a dozen themes from a lifetime of work by anthropologist Edward T. Hall who coined the term “intercultural communication.” With wit and clarity, Condon introduces many concepts that have been overlooked, and presents these in light of current neuroscience research. The subtitle of the book is the name of the legendary course that Prof. Hall taught at Northwestern University where he and Condon were colleagues. Hall is best known as a pioneer in nonverbal communication, with innovative work in proxemics, in monochronic and polychronic time, and his distinction between high context and low context communication. Condon is considered one of the founders of the field of intercultural communication. His previous books include the first university textbook in the field of intercultural communication, and his widely read With Respect to the Japanese. It Goes Without Saying: Culture as Communication, Condon’s twentieth book, is his most extensive and most personal.