Human Communication across Cultures is a highly interactive textbook and workbook on how human communication takes place‎.‎ Unlike other textbooks which focus only on sociolinguistics this book employs both sociolinguistics and pragmatics‎.‎ Sociolinguistics explores how language is used in social interactions‎.‎ There are differences in the way we speak due to where we live‎,‎ gender‎,‎ age‎,‎ race/ethnicity‎,‎ religious background and our social class and level of education‎.‎ Pragmatics shows how we speak differently and understand one another in each situation we encounter‎.‎ Each section of the book includes a brief introduction‎,‎ a discussion of the topic‎,‎ references for further research and an extensive collection of activities designed for both in‎-class usage and homework assignments‎.‎ The book features numerous examples from a variety of current world cultures‎.‎