会议 | The 14th ABC Asia-Pacific Conference Call for Papers
2015/06/25
It is our pleasure to invite you to submit your abstracts and completed papers to the Association for Business Communication’s Asia-Pacific Conference. The conference will be hosted in Guangzhou, on November 27-29, 2015.
Conference Theme: Business Communication in the Global Century
We are living in the 21st Century of increased level of globalisation and internationalisation in which people of different countries, cultures and communities interact more frequently than ever. The conference aims to focus on the diversity and complexities of communication in business across countries and cultures.
Specifically we propose the following two aims:
1. Providing scholars, educators and practitioners from different disciplines (business English, business communication, management, and practitioners) with opportunities to interact, network and benefit from each other’s research and expertise related to effectively managing business communication and intercultural communication issues;
2. Advancing the methodology for business communication and intercultural communication research and disseminate practical findings to facilitate understanding across cultures, communities and disciplines.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
1. Business communication in the 21st Century: Changing concepts of business communications in the 21st century environment
- Business ethics in communication
- Business/professional communication in new media contexts
- Business communication and business discourse
- New technology (e.g. Social Network Service) and business communication
2. Globalization and intercultural communication
- Intercultural communication issues in mergers and acquisitions
- International communication in the era of global century
- Intercultural marketing and branding
- Business English as Lingua Franca
3. Business stakeholder communication
- Public relations and consumer behaviours in intercultural contexts
- Communication with internal stakeholders: Employee voice, organisational communication
-Communication with external stakeholders: Customers, business partners, investors, and policy-makers
4. Rhetoric and Persuasion
- Persuasive and rhetorical communication
- Decision-making and negotiation
- Crisis communication management
5. Business Communication Education across disciplines in Business English and Management
- Teaching stakeholder perspective of business communication
- Professional training in business communication
- Teaching business/professional communication
Should you wish to organize a panel session on any of these conference topics, please contact the organizing committee and feel free to present your suggestions to them by contacting
Jiamin Weng:wjm@gdufs.edu.cn.
Guidelines for submission
Proposal format: For the acceptance decision and conference proceeding, authors should submit an “extended abstract” to ABC Asia-Pacific 2015 using the following format:
Title
Author(s): Please list authors and their affiliations in the order in which you would like to list their names on the conference program.
Summary of the study: The texts are limited to 500~1,000 words (excluding references), explaining the purpose of the study, the research methodology used, the key findings of the study, and implications for education and/or business.
Keywords: Please list 5~6 keywords of the study.
Other considerations:
1. The preferred format is Microsoft Word.
2. The final abstract is recommendded to be presented in no more than 2 pages in length including figures and tables (single-spaced, 10 pt. font, 1 inch margins).
3. Proposal submission: Please submit your proposal on-line by June 31, 2015, extended to July 16, 2015.
E-mail submission to Chaowang Ren: gzabc2015@gdufs.edu.cn
4. Review of proposals: Proposals will be peer reviewed and you will be informed of the result via e-mail by the end of July, 2015, extended to August 16, 2015.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline:
June 31, 2015, extended to July 16, 2015.
Notification of acceptance:
July 31, 2015, extended to August 16, 2015.
Keynote speakers
Professor Helen Spenser-Oatey, University of Warwick
Professor Joyce Osland, San Jose State University
Professor Yuanxia Zhu, University of Queensland
Professor Lifei Wang, University of International Business and Economics
Professor Huhua Ouyang, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
Professor Guihang Guo, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
Professor Dechun Cao, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power
Registration Fee: ABC member 1000 RMB (170 USD); non-member 1200 RMB (200 USD),
Student fee: 600 RMB (100 UDS)
Conference correspondence
If you need further information, please feel free to contact us. Please send all conference correspondence to School of English for International Business, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, 2 Baiyun North Avenue, Guangzhou, 510420, P. R. China
Organising Committee: Guihang Guo, Chunyu Hu, Rong Jiang, Wubao Zhang, Yili Peng, Chuanyou Yuan, Weichao Wang, Chaowang Ren, Jiamin Weng
Scientific Committee: Dechun Cao, Jieyun Feng, Wenzhong Zhu,Yongping Ran
We are looking forward to seeing you in Guangzhou, China in November 2015!
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