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[ecrea] IAICS CfP, February 1st

Mon Feb 03 21:46:12 GMT 2014





CfP IAICS 2014 Providence, USA July 31-August 4
For more information, visit http://harrington.uri.edu/iaics/iaics-conference/call-for-submission/


“Enhancing Global Community, Resilience and Sustainability
Through Intercultural Communication”
CALL FOR PAPERS
THE 20TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION STUDIES (IAICS)
UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND, KINGSTON-PROVIDENCE, RI, USA
PROVIDENCE, RI, USA, JULY 31-AUGUST 4, 2014

People around the world are interconnected, interdependent and mobile. Scholars and practitioners are more aware of the necessity to develop strong intercultural relations, based on mutual understanding in the context of intercultural interaction. Intercultural Communication has become a dominant paradigm connecting a range of disciplines. Globalization and increased diversity heighten the risk of communication failures and misunderstandings due to ethnocentrism, prejudice, sexism and environmental, social, and technological issues. They include Climate Change; Pollution and Resource Depletion; Global Food and Water Supply; Impact of Information Technology and Social Media; Political Oppression, Conflict and War;
Poverty; Societal Security and Personal Safety.

Global communication plays a key role in solving these problems. Increasingly, we must learn to rely on each other, build resilience, resolve conflicts peacefully, and strive for social equity by enhancing intercultural communication.

The conference theme focuses on aspects of interpersonal, inter-group and international communication. We must address both theoretical and empirical studies, as well as develop new conceptual and methodological approaches to affirm the centrality of the discipline. Collaborative research needs to stress communication and embrace synergies by joining efforts with other disciplines, including environmental and health sciences, business, engineering and information systems.
THE GOALS OF THE CONFERENCE:

* To provide scholars, educators and practitioners from different cultural communities with opportunities to interact, network and benefit from each other’s research and expertise related to intercultural communication issues; * To synthesize research perspectives and foster interdisciplinary scholarly dialogue for developing integrated approaches to complex problems of communication across cultures; * To advance the methodology for intercultural communication research and disseminate practical findings to facilitate understanding across cultures; * to foster the importance of global cultural awareness and involve educators, business professionals, students and other stakeholders worldwide in the discourse about diversity and intercultural communication issues.

The International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies is soliciting submissions for the 20th International Conference on Cross-Cultural Communication to be held at the University of Rhode Island, USA, July 31-August 4, 2014. Topic areas are broadly defined as, but not limited to, the following:

- Advertising and marketing
- Business communication
- Climate change and pollution
- Conflict, mediation and negotiation
- Corporate culture and management
- Communication failures
- Communication pedagogy
- Crisis/risk communication
- Critical cultural awareness
- Cross-cultural adaptation
- Cultural identity
- Culture and diplomacy
- Diversity of languages and cultures
- Ethnocentrism and stereotypes
- Environmental communication
- Ethnic studies
- Gender issues
- Global community
- Global food and water supply
- Group/Organizational communication
- Health communication
- Immigration and mobility
- Intercultural communication competence
- Intercultural communication in global context
- Intercultural communication and politics
- Intercultural conflict
- Intercultural education practices
- Intercultural interaction in science
- International journalism
- Interpersonal communication and relations
- Linguistics and intercultural communication
- Localization and globalization
- Media and social research
- Multiple cultures and interculturality
- New media and visual communication
- Philosophy and human behavior patterns
- Poverty
- Power in intercultural communication
- Psychological communication studies
- Public opinions and public policy
- Public relations
- Racial discrimination and ethnic relations
- Resource depletion
- Religion/spiritual communication
- Resilience among cultures
- Rhetorical communication
- Social equity
- Stereotypes and stereotyping
- Sustainability and globalization
- Translation studies
- Understanding across cultures
- Verbal and nonverbal communication
GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION

Categories: Abstract, panel proposal, and workshop proposal may be accepted.

* Abstract, 150-250 words in English, including position, affiliations, email addresses and mailing addresses for all authors. See the sample format of the abstract below. * Panel proposals reflecting the conference theme may be submitted. All panel proposals should provide a 100-word rationale and a 100-200 word abstract of each panelist’s paper; include affiliation and email addresses for each panelist. * Workshop proposals relevant to the conference theme may be submitted. Proposal is expected to be 3-5 pages in length, single spaced

Deadline: Abstracts by February 15, 2014.

Complete panel proposals and roundtables by March 1, 2014

All submissions will be peer-reviewed.

Submission to: (iaics2014uri /at/ gmail.com)

Conference hosts: International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies and the Harrington School of Communication and Media, University of Rhode Island.

Conference languages: English

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A SAMPLE ABSTRACT

The Development and Validation of the Intercultural Sensitivity Scale

Guo-Ming Chen, Ph.D.
Department of Communication Studies
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI 02881, USA
Email: (gmchen /at/ uri.edu)

The present study developed and assessed reliability and validity of a new instrument, the Intercultural Sensitivity Scale (ISS). Based on a review of the literature, 44 items thought to be important for intercultural sensitivity were generated. A sample of 414 college students rated these items and generated a 24-item final version of the instrument which contains five factors. An assessment of concurrent validity from 162 participants indicated that the ISS was significantly correlated with other related scales, including interaction attentiveness, impression rewarding, self-esteem, self-monitoring, and perspective taking. In addition, the predicted validity test from 174 participants showed that individuals with high ISS scores also scored high in intercultural effectiveness and intercultural communication attitude scales. Potential limitations and future direction of the study were discussed as well.

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