在中国的跨文化传播研究不断深入的背景下，本领域全球发展现状需被全面了解。本文根据专家意见法确定了8本国外重要的跨文化传播期刊，对2018年至2020年的495篇文献进行梳理和解读，从问题意识、研究方法、发现与创新性等层面进行分析。国外跨文化传播研究大体呈现出以下几个特征：文化身份省思与群际传播内在张力的学术视角；跨文化接触中殖民主义和集体记忆关注；语言在传递文化价值观与增强文化归属感中的作用重点提及；传播学、跨文化传播学的学科边界意识；对既有理论的检验和延伸推动新知识生产的趋势；媒介使用比较研究的跨文化视角; 社交媒体在跨文化融入中的功能研究；跨文化能力和跨文化培训在众多领域的重要性凸显；多元文化背景下的文化安全感与跨文化关系研究；基于身份政治、文化自觉的传播学跨文化审视危机意识。

With China’s intercultural communication research constantly going deeper, it is necessary to gain a global perspective with regard to the development of this field. Based on Delphi method,this paper identifies eight prestigious intercultural communication journals overseas, reviews 495 articles published in 2018-2020, and analyzes them from the aspects of their question awareness, research methods, findings and innovative points. Several major trends have been highlighted as follows: the inherent interplay between cultural identity and inter-group communication from the academic perspective; the attention to colonialist and collective memories during intercultural contacts; the role of language in communicating cultural values and enhancing cultural belonging; discussions of the disciplinary boundaries; testing and extending existing theories to facilitate the production of new knowledge; the intercultural perspective of media uses; research on the function of social media in intercultural integration; the importance of intercultural competence and cross-cultural training in relevant areas; research on cultural security and its effects on intercultural relations in a multicultural context; intercultural reflections based on identity politics and cultural awareness.