Journal Articles & Book Chapters
Liu, Y., & Kramer, E. (in press). Cultural value discrepancies, strategic positioning and integrated identity: American migrants’ experiences of being the Other in mainland China. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication.
Kramer, E. M. (2019). The West and the western. Ink & Letters, 8 , 14-19.
Kramer, E. M. (2019). Cultural Fusion Theory . In J. F. Nussbaum (Ed.), Oxford research encyclopedia of communication . Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.679
Kramer, E. M. (2019). Cultural fusion: An alternative to assimilation. In S. Croucher, J. Caetano & E. Campbell (Eds.), The Routledge companion to migration, communication and politics (pp. 96-120). Routledge.
Hsieh, E. & Kramer, E. M. (2019). Work as health: Tensions in imposing work requirements to Medicaid recipients in the U.S. In Arxer, S. and Murphy J. W. (Eds.), Community-based Health Interventions in an Institutional Context (pp. 139-157). Springer.
Kramer, E. M. & Hsieh, E. (2019). Gaze as embodied ethics: Homelessness, the Other, and humanity. In M. J. Dutta, & D. B. Zapata (Eds.), Communicating for social change: Meaning, power, and resistance (pp. 33-62). Palgrave Macmillan.
Liu, Y., & Kramer, E. M. (2019). Conceptualizing the Other in intercultural encounters: Review, formulation and typology of the Other-identity. Howard Journal of Communications, 30 (5), 446-463.
Kramer, E. M. (2017). Cassirer as revolutionary: Semiotics as embodied worldview appreciating the other in ourselves. American Journal of Semiotics, 33 (3-4), 233-332.
Croucher, S. M. & Kramer, E. M. (2017). Cultural fusion theory: An alternative to acculturation. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 10 (2), 97-114.
Kramer, E. M. (2016). Immigrant identity: Part I. Social Inquiry into Well-Being, 2 (2), 1-11. http://dx.doi.org/10.13165/SIIW-16-2-2-01
Kramer, E. M. (2016). Immigrant identity: Part II. Social Inquiry into Well-Being, 2 (2), 12-23. http://dx.doi.org/10.13165/SIIW-16-2-2-02
Bingham, C., & Kramer, E. (2016). “Neoliberalism and the Production of Enemies: The Commercial Logic of Yahoo! News, In V. Berdayes and J. Murphy, (Eds.), Neoliberalism, economic radicalism, and the normalization of violence (pp. 53-69). Springer.
Kramer, E. M. (2016). The working poor: Two perspectives on reality—a communication to the Editor inviting a discussion. Poverty & Public Policy, 8 (3), 263-274.
Hsieh, E., Bruscella, J. S., Zanin, A., & Kramer, E. M. (2016). “It’s not like you need to live 10 or 20 years”: Challenges to patient-centered care in gynecologic oncologist-patient interactions. Qualitative Health Research, 26 (9), 1191-1202.
Kramer, E. M. (2014). Innovative communication needs versus the ideology of conformity. In M. Iwakuma (Ed.), The struggle to belong: Stepping into the world of the disabled (pp. ix-xix). Hampton Press.
Kramer, E. M. (2013). Hermeneutics: The world as conversation. In C. McIlwain (Ed.), Philosophy, Method, and Cultural Criticism (pp. 11-33). Hampton Press.
Kramer, E. M. (2013). Dimensional accrual and dissociation: An introduction . In J. Grace & E. M. Kramer (Eds.), Communication, comparative cultures, and civilizations (Vol. 3, pp. 123-184). Hampton Press.
Hsieh, E. & Kramer, E. (2013).「病人自主權」與「病患授權」在醫療口譯實務應用與理論探討[Patient Autonomy and Patient Empowerment in Interpreter-Mediated Medical Encounters ]. Proceedings of the Fourth Cross-straits Symposium on Translation and Intercultural Communication (pp. 266-288). Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.
Kramer, E. M. & Hsieh, E. (2012). Anti-culture and aging. In S. L. Arxer, & J. W. Murphy (Eds.), The symbolism of globalization, development, and aging (pp. 135-156). Springer.
Hsieh, E., & Kramer, E. M. (2012). Medical interpreters as tools: Dangers and challenges in the utilitarian approaches to interpreters’ roles and functions. Patient Education and Counseling, 89 (1), 158-162.
Kramer, E. M. (2012). Science. In O. Patterson & G. J. Golson (Eds.), Cultural sociology of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa: An encyclopedia; Vol 3: Cultural Sociology of East and Southeast Asia (pp. 177-181). Sage.
Kramer, E. M. (2012). Addressing the grand omission: A brief explanation of the pragmatics of intercultural communication in terms of spiritual systems – A taxonomic approach. In Croucher, S. M. & Harris, T. M. (Eds.), Religion and communication: An anthology of extensions in theory, research, and method (pp. 189-221). Peter Lang.
Hsieh, E, & Kramer, E. M. (2012). The clashes of expert and layman talk: Constructing meanings of interpreter-mediated medical encounters. In C. Callahan (Ed.), Communication, comparative cultures and civilizations (Vol. 2; pp. 19-44). Hampton Press.
Kramer, E. M. (2011). Preface. In Croucher, S. & Cronn-Mills, D. (Eds.), Religious Misperceptions: The Case of Muslims and Christians in France and Britain (pp. vii-xxxii). Hampton Press.
Matusitz, J., & Kramer, E. M. (2011). A critique of Bernstein’s beyond objectivism and relativism: Science, hermeneutics, and praxis. Poiesis & Praxis, 7 (4), 291-303.
Kramer, E. M. (2010). Immigration. In R. L. Jackson, II (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Identity (pp. 384-389). Sage.
Hsieh, E., Kong, H., Kramer, E. M. (2009). 醫療口譯員與醫護人員如何建構、協調彼此的溝通語意及專業權威 [Constructing Meanings and Authority in Bilingual Health Care]. 翻譯學研究集刊 Fan I Hsueh Yen Chiu Chi K'an [Studies of Translation and Interpretation], 12 , 87-123.
Kramer, E. M., & Kim, T. (2009). The global network of players. In J. M. Choi & J. W. Murphy Eds.), Globalisation and the prospects for critical reflection (pp. 183-211). Aakar.
Kramer, E. M. (2008). Theoretical reflections on intercultural studies: Preface. In S. Croucher (Ed.), Looking Beyond the Hijab (pp. ix-xxxix). Hampton Press.
Kramer, E. M. (2008). On the sense of the partial fulfillment of perspective: The construction of reliable order out of chaos. In P. Dalton (Ed.), Comparative cultures and civilizations (Vol. 1, pp. 151-168). Hampton Press.
Kramer, E. M. (2004). Vanishing meaning, the ideology of value-addition, and the diffusion of broadband information technology. In J. M. Choi, J. W. Murphy & M. J. Caro (Eds.), Globalization with a human face (pp. 87-108). Praeger.
Kramer, E. M. (2004). The body in communication. In V. Berdayes, L. Esposito & J. Murphy (Eds.), The body in human inquiry: Interdisciplinary explorations of embodiment (pp. 51-86). Hampton Press.
Kramer, E. M. (2004). Guest editor's introduction: Special issue "Narrative and Time". TAMARA: The Journal of Critical Postmodern Organization Science, 3 (1), iv-v.
Kramer, E. M. (2003). Introduction: Assimilation and the model minority ideology. In E. M. Kramer (Ed.), The emerging monoculture: Assimilation and the "model minority" (pp. xi-xxi). Praeger.
Kramer, E. M. (2003). Gaiatsu and cultural judo. In E. M. Kramer (Ed.), The emerging monoculture: Assimilation and the "model minority" (pp. 1-32). Praeger.
Isa, M., & Kramer, E. M. (2003). Adopting the Caucasian "look": Reorganizing the minority face. In E. M. Kramer (Ed.), The emerging monoculture: Assimilation and the "model minority" (pp. 41-74). Praeger.
McClure, R., Reed, W., & Kramer, E. M. (2003). A world of cookie-cutter faces. In E. M. Kramer (Ed.), The emerging monoculture: Assimilation and the "model minority" (pp. 221-233). Praeger.
Kramer, E. M. (2003). Cosmopoly: Occidentalism and the new world order. In E. M. Kramer (Ed.), The emerging monoculture: Assimilation and the "model minority" (pp. 234-291). Praeger.
Kramer, E. M. (2003). Who's afraid of the virgin wolf man? Or, the other meaning of auto-eroticism. In G. D. Rhodes (Ed.), Horror at the drive-in: Essays in popular Americana (pp. 9-23). McFarland.
Kramer, E. M. (2002). Hermeneutics. Inter/Sections: The Journal of Global Communications & Culture, 2(5), 103-114.
Kramer, E. M., & Ikeda, R. (2001). Japanese clocks: Semiotic evidence of the perspectival mutation. The American Journal of Semiotics, 17 (2), 71-137.
Kramer, E. M., & Ikeda, R. (2001). Defining crime: Signs of postmodern murder and the "freeze" case of Yoshihiro Hattori. The American Journal of Semiotics, 17 (1), 7-84.
Ikeda, R., & Kramer, E. M. (2001). グローバリズムによるアイデンティティの画一化と喪失 [Standardization and Loss of Identity Through Globalism]. Journal of Intercultural Communication, 4 (1), 1-13.
Kramer, E. M. (2000). Ressentiment and racism. In M. K. Asante & E. Min (Eds.), Socio-cultural Conflict between African and Korean Americans (pp. 35-70). University Press of America. [Corrected Proof ]
Kramer, E. M. (2000). Cultural fusion and the defense of difference. In M. K. Asante & J. E. Min (Eds.), Socio-cultural Conflict between African and Korean Americans (pp. 183-230). University Press of America. [Corrected Proof ]
Kramer, E. M. (2000). Contemptus Mundi: Reality as disease In V. Berdayes & J. W. Murphy (Eds.), Computers, human interaction, and organizations: Critical issues (pp. 31-54). Praeger.
Kramer, E. M. & Ikeda, R. (2000). The changing faces of reality. Keio Communication Review, 22 , 79-109.
Ikeda, R., & Kramer, E. M. (1999). Japanese furoosha (bums) and hoomuresu (homeless): Living in the shadow of wealth. In E. Min (Ed.), Reading the homeless: The media's image of homeless culture (pp. 197-215). Praeger.
Kramer, E. M., & Lee, S. (1999). Homelessness: The other as object. In E. Min (Ed.), Reading the homeless: The media's image of homeless culture (pp. 135-157). Praeger.
Ikeda, R., & Kramer, E. M. (1998). The Enola Gay: The transformation of an airplane into an icon and the ownership of history. Keio Communication Review, 20 , 49-73.
Kramer, E. M., & Ikeda, R. (1998). Understanding different worlds: The theory of dimensional accrual/dissociation. Journal of Intercultural Communication, 1 (2), 37-51.
Kramer, E. M. (1997). The spiders of truth. In E. M. Kramer (Ed.), postmodernism and race (pp. 1-15). Praeger.
Kramer, E. M., & Johnson, L. J. (1997). A brief archaeology of intelligence. In E. M. Kramer (Ed.), postmodernism and race (pp. 31-50). Praeger.
Kramer, E. M. (1997). What is "Japanese"? Culture, diversity, and social harmony. In E. M. Kramer (Ed.), postmodernism and race (pp. 79-102). Praeger.
Kramer, E. M. (1995). A brief hermeneutic of the co-constitution of nature and culture in the West including some contemporary consequences. History of European Ideas, 20 (1-3), 649-659.
Kramer, E. M. (1994). On the sense of the "partial" fulfillment of phenomenological intuition. Integrative Explorations: Journal of Culture and Consciousness, 2 , 37-51.
Kramer, E. M. (1994). Making love alone: Videocentrism and the case of modern pornography. In K. A. Callahan (Ed.), Ideals of feminine beauty: Philosophical, social, and cultural dimensions (pp. 79-98). Greenwood.
Kramer, E. M. (1993). The origin of television as civilizational expression. In K. Haworth, J. Deely & T. Prewitt (Eds.), Semiotics 1990. Sources in Semiotics (Vol. XI, pp. 28-37). University Press of America.
Kramer, E. M. (1993). Mass media and democracy. In J. W. Murphy & D. L. Peck (Eds.), Open institutions: The hope for democracy (pp. 77-98). Praeger.
Kramer, E. M. (1993). Investigative journalism in Bulgaria: A postponed renaissance. In A. Hester & K. White (Eds.), Creating a free press in Eastern Europe (pp. 111-159). University of Georgia.
Kramer, E. M. (1993). Reversal of fortunes: Rehabilitations and counter-purges in Bulgaria. In A. Hester & K. White (Eds.), Creating a free press in Eastern Europe (pp. 161-190). University of Georgia.
Kramer, E. M. (1993). Phenomenology of international images. In P. Blosser, E. Shimomissé, L. Embree & H. Kojima (Eds.), Japanese and western phenomenology (pp. 249-262). Springer.
Kramer, E. M. (1993). Understanding co-constitutional genesis. Integrative Explorations: Journal of Culture and Consciousness, 1 (1), 40-46.
Kramer, E. M., & Algis, M. (1992). Introduction: Gebser's new understanding. In E. M. Kramer (Ed.), Consciousness and culture: An introduction to the thought of Jean Gebser (pp. xi-xxxi). Greenwood.
Kramer, E. M. (1992). Gebser and culture. In E. M. Kramer (Ed.), Consciousness and culture: An introduction to the thought of Jean Gebser (pp. 1-60). Greenwood.
Kramer, E. M. (1991). [Review of the book The global village: Transformations in world life and media in the 21st century]. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 15 (1), 117-122.
Kramer, E. M. (1991). Mass communications: A supplemental chapter to accompany Understanding Human Communication. In R. B. Adler & G. Rodman (Eds.), Understanding Human Communication (4th ed., pp. s1-33). Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College.
Kramer, E. M. (1991). Terrorizing discourses and dissident courage. Communication Theory, 1 (4), 336-347.
Books
Rethinking Culture in Health Communication
Hsieh, E. & Kramer, E. M. (2021). Rethinking culture in health communication: Social interactions as intercultural encounters . Wiley.
In this book, the foundational framework is that cultures can be understood from three perspectives: Magic Consciousness (e.g., all lives are connected as one), Mythic Connection (e.g., stories and narratives that strengthen group norms and values), and Perspectival Thinking (e.g., science). These cultural perspectives also blend with one another, creating an Integral Fusion perspective (e.g., a scientist who is also highly religious). We then use these cultural perspectives to examine existing theories in health communication and health policies.
Cross-cultural Communication in the Contexts of Globalization
Kramer, E. M., & Liu, Y. (2015). 全球化語境下的跨文化傳播 [Cross-cultural Communication in the Contexts of Globalization] . Tsinghua University Press.
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Environmental Communication and the Extinction Vortex
Kramer, E. M., Adkins, G. L., Kim, S. H. & Miller, G. (2014). Environmental communication and the extinction vortex: Technology as denial of death. Hampton Press.
*non-peer reviewed; funding sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oklahoma
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Coarseness in U.S. Public Communication
Dalton, P., & Kramer, E. M. (2012). Coarseness in U.S. public communication . Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
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Intercultural Communication and Global Integration
Kramer, E. M., Callahan, L. C., & Zuckerman, S. D. (2012). Intercultural communication and global integration . Kendall Hunt.
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池田理知子, 灘光洋子, 今井千景, 吉武正樹, クレーマー,E.M., 山田美智子, 岩隈美穂, 伊佐雅子, & 丸山真純. (2007). 多文化社会と異文化コミュニケーション (rev. ed). 伊佐雅子監修. 三修社.
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池田理知子, 灘光洋子, 今井千景, 吉武正樹, クレーマー,E.M., 山田美智子, 岩隈美穂, 伊佐雅子, & 丸山真純. (2002). 多文化社会と異文化コミュニケーション [Tabunka shakai to ibunka komyunikēshon]. (rev. ed). 伊佐雅子監修. 三修社.
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池田理知子, & クレーマー,E.M.(2000). 異文化コミュニケーション入門. 有斐閣.
2000 Shorei-sho Best Book of the Year Award, Communication Association of Japan.
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Kramer, E. M. (1997). Modern/postmodern: Off the beaten path of antimodernism . Praeger.
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Edited Books
Communication, Comparative Cultures, and Civilizations
Grace, J. & Kramer, E. M. (Eds.) (2013). Communication, comparative cultures, and civilizations , Vol. 3. Hampton Press..
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Kramer, E. M. (Ed.). (2003). The emerging monoculture: Assimilation and the "model minority" . Praeger.
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Kramer, E. M. (Ed.). (1997). Postmodernism and race . Praeger.
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Kramer, E. M. (Ed.). (1992). Consciousness and culture: An introduction to the thought of Jean Gebser . Greenwood.
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