Call for Papers
2008 IAICS Conference
Suggested Topics
This is an interdisciplinary conference on human communication across cultures. The suggesteed paper topics, therefore, may be seen from a wide range of communication related topics. The following is suggestive of potential paper topics.
- Approaches to intercultural Communication study
- Business communication across cultures
- Communication accommodation
- Communication and globalization
- Communication education
- Computer mediated communication
- Conflict and negotiation
- Crisis management
- Cross-cultural adaptation
- Cultural and linguistic diversity
- Cultural identity and globalisation
- Digital communication
- Ethnicity and communication
- Group or organizational communication across cultures
- Harmony and Diversity
- Health communication across cultures
- Information technology and culture
- Interpersonal/intercultural communication
- Intercultural / global communication competence
- Language and cultural Education, Language and media
- Language and society, Language attitude
- Language change and language stability
- Language policy
- Media and culture
- Media literacy
- Rhetoric studies
- Risk communication across cultures
- Theory of intercultural communication from different perspectives
- Research methodology in intercultural communication studies
- Translation theory, verbal and nonverbal communication across cultures and interpersonal communication across cultures.
Guidelines for Submission
Categories: Abstract, panel proposals, and workshop proposal may be accepted.- Abstract, 150-200 words in English. Please check below for the format of the abstract.
- Panel proposal reflecting the conference theme may be submitted. All panel proposals should provide a 300-word rationale and 150-250 word abstract of each panelist's paper.
- Workshop proposals relevant to the conference theme may be submitted. Proposals are expected to be 3-5 pages in length, single-spaced.
Please submit the abstract, the complete panel proposals, and the complete workshop proposal online as an MS Word attachment by July 15, 2008. Do not send in the completed paper at this time. Authors will be told at the conference where to send the completed paper and what the deadline is. All submissions will be carefully reviewed and those papers that are accepted will be published in one of the two issues of Intercultural Communication Studies that will be devoted to conference material.
Conference language: International English
Organizational website: http://www.uri.edu/iaics/conf2008.php
International scholars please email your English submission to:editor.ics@gmail.com