Call for Papers
The 1st Autumn Conference of Interpersonal Communication and Social
Interaction Section of ECREA
ECREA's Section for Interpersonal Communication and Social Interaction
welcomes the submission of proposals for papers for The 1st Autumn
Conference of Interpersonal Communication and Social Interaction.
21st - 23rd of October 2009 Tampere, Finland
Deadline for abstract submission: 30th of April 2009
Target participants: scholars and postgraduate students of
interpersonal communication and social interaction.
Keynote speakers:
* Professor Brant Burleson, Purdue University, USA
* Professor Owen Hargie, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
The autumn conference centers around three themes:
* Interpersonal communication and social interaction in close
relationships,
* Interpersonal communication and social interaction in
professional context
* Mediated interpersonal communication.
We welcome proposals for papers that explore the questions of the
themes. The papers may consider contacts and bonds between people,
whether in private or public contexts, whether maintained face-to-face
or via communication technologies. The papers may focus on
interpersonal relationships, relationship formation, development and
termination, group and team communication, conversational
organization, verbal and nonverbal communication, public speaking,
radio and television performance, rhetoric, argumentation, persuasion
and mutual influence, communicative competence and interpersonal
skills, ethnography of speaking, and other related approaches to human
social interaction.
Protocol of the abstracts:
Length: 300 words and the list of key words
Deadline: 30th of April 2009
All abstracts will be reviewed. Please, select one of the main themes
which you would like to present your paper and mark the title of it in
your abstract.
Submission of the abstracts: (ecrea.interpersonal /at/ uta.fi)
When submitting your abstract please, include your contact information:
First name
Surname
Organisation and department
Street address
Zip code
City
Country
Telephone number
E-mail address
The organizers of the conference
ECREA Section for Interpersonal Communication and Social Interaction
Finnish Doctoral School of Communication Studies
Department of Speech Communication and Voice Research, University of
Tampere, Finland
The Chair of the section: Professor Pekka Isotalus, University of Tampere
Contact
Event Webpage: http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/puheoppi/autumn_conference/
Contact person: Teija Waaramaa, Coordinator of the Doctoral School of
Communication Studies
Contact email: (teija.waaramaa /at/ uta.fi)
Address: FIN-33014 University of Tampere, Finland, fax +358 (0)3 3551 6063
Registration
Conference fee
No registration fee for those participants who present their own paper.
50 E for those participants who do not present a paper.
The registration fee includes the programme and free admission to Get
Together.
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Pekka Isotalus
Professor of Speech Communication
Department of Speech Communication and Voice Research
33014 University of Tampere, Finland
tel. +358 3 35517359, fax +358 3 35516063, GSM +358 50 3605221
e-mail: (pekka.isotalus /at/ uta.fi)
www.isotalus.fi
