Comments on: Intercultural Communication Conference

By: Jenny Zhang

Jenny Zhang — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:27:42 +0000

Topic areas are broadly defined as, but not limited to, the following in,
Intercultural communication…
• Approaches and theories and building relevant disciplines, e.g.: discourse analysis, psychology, sociology,
• Cross-cultural communication research, adaptation • Intercultural rhetoric, semiotics, semantics, pragmatics • Competence, accommodation, identification and training

Research and application of intercultural communication in…
• Work contexts, e.g. in business, management and organizations, tourism, human resources, risk management
• Social contexts, e.g. migration, gender issues, diversity and social exclusion, ethnic minority issues, non-verbal communication
• Local and personal contexts, e.g. identity construction, conflict and negotiation, romance and transnational marriage
• Global contexts, e.g. globalisation and transnationalism, ethno-centricism and cultural imperialism, cultural ecologies
• Mass communication e.g. the media, national image, online communication, advertising,
• Education and training in intercultural communication, teaching Chinese or English as a foreign language, language issues, e.g. related to translation, multilingualism, cultures, cognition, the media, language attitudes and policies.

By: Jenny Zhang

Jenny Zhang — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:26:00 +0000

The conference will include:
• The Pre-conference Postgraduate Workshop on “New Approaches to Intercultural Communication” will be chaired by Prof. Ingrid Piller (Macquarie University) on Nov 15, 2012.
• Papers for keynote speeches will be recommended by the conference paper-review committee and the organizing committee.
• Panel sessions of 90 minutes should allow for participation by the session coordinator, the commentator, and papers by 4 speakers. Each individual paper should be no more than 15 minutes in length with 5 minutes of time for questions. The conference paper-review and organizing committees will make arrangement of panel sessions according to the themes of individual papers.
• Conference workshops are prepared speeches and in-depth discussions, with workshop tasks or activities (concerning original ideas and recent progress of the field)

Important Dates
30 August2012:Deadlineforsubmittingabstract,proposaland academic bios
30 September 2012: Deadline for final submission of papers
20 October 2012: Notification of acceptance/rejection
16-18 November 2012: Dates of the conference

Please check Conference website (http://www.icc2012.info/) for detailed information

Contact Information
YUAN Yuan: PhD, English Language and Literature Department, ZUEL
ZHANG Jie (Jenny): PhD, English Language and Literature Department, ZUEL
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel:86-27-88385339
Fax:86-27-88385015

By: Ingrid Piller

Ingrid Piller — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:05:13 +0000

In reply to Nasser Rashidi. You might want to download the call for papers and conference flier available at the end of the post.

By: Nasser Rashidi

Nasser Rashidi — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 03:31:37 +0000

Please send me more information on the conference.

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