Designed as a forum for the exchange of ideas concerning international and intercultural communication, this annual volume covers a wide variety of topics. Its seven articles discuss intercultural contact and attitude change, the survival stage of intercultural communication, interpersonal perceptions in a simulation game of intercultural contact, putting culture shock in perspective, inter-ethnic and intra-ethnic communication, communication networks and social change in developing countries, and human communication and cross-cultural effectiveness. The volume also contains a review of current literature and a cumulative index to articles and book reviews published in the first four volumes of the "Annual." (FL)