Call for Abstract Submission
Conference Theme: “Culture, Communication, and Hybridity in an Age of Globalization”
Conference Time: July 15-18, 2015
Conference Venue: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Conference Goals:
•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 dialogues 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 global intercultural sensitivity and involve educators, business professionals, students and other stakeholders worldwide in the discourse about diversity and transcultural communication issues.
Topic areas are broadly defined as, but not limited to, the following:
| Advertising and marketing across cultures Bilingual and multilingual communication Bilingual education Comparative literature Conflict, mediation and negotiation across Cultures Corporate culture and management Crisis/risk communication Cross-cultural adaptation Cross-cultural interaction Culture and diplomacy Digital communication across cultures Ethnic studies Gender issues and communication Glocalization Group/Organizational communication Health communication Intercultural communication competence Intercultural communication and politics Intercultural and multilingual education | Intercultural pragmatics Interethnic communication and relations in China Interpersonal communication and relations Language and cultural hybridity Language planning and policy Media and transcultural communication Multiple cultures and interculturality Philosophy and human behavior patterns Psychological communication studies Public opinions and public policy Public relations Rhetorical communication Second language education Social media and communication Sustainability and globalization Transculturality in global context Translation studies Verbal and nonverbal communication |