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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

Guidelines for Submissions


Categories: Abstract, panel proposals, and workshop proposals may be accepted.
• Abstract, 150-250 words in English, including positions, affiliations, email addresses and mailing addresses for all authors.
• 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. Proposals should be 3-5 pages in length, single spaced.

Deadline: Please submit abstracts, panel/workshop proposals, and roundtable discussion sessions by 28th February, 2015.

Submission to: iaics-cafic.2015@polyu.edu.hk , dongyingwu@ymail.com

Conference Working Languages: English and Chinese
Conference host: Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Conference website: http://www.cbs.polyu.edu.hk/2015iaics_cafic/ ; http://www.uri.edu.iaics

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@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 for the purpose of analyses in this study. 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 for the study in this line of research were discussed as well.