CALL FOR PAPERS & POSTERS (NOW CLOSED)

In recent years business communication has come of age as a field of scientific inquiry in its own right. Written, oral and on-line interaction within and among profit as well as non-profit organizations is now being studied from a wide range of perspectives and using a great many different methods.

This convention is aimed at presenting a state-of-the-art survey of what the field has accomplished so far and where it is heading. In particular, papers, posters and panels are welcomed that present new research on business communication or that address the question of how such scholarship is relevant to education and practice, i.e. how business communication teachers and professionals draw on research findings in going about their daily activities in the field.

Contributions are welcomed on a wide spectrum of business settings, including leadership and management situations, on gatekeeping encounters in a variety of institutions and organizations and through a range of media and cultures, on oral interaction in the workplace, on marketing and PR discourse, on on-line communication, on management, organizational and corporate communication, on global aspects of integrated marketing communications, etc.

Methodologically, the convention is open to wide-ranging efforts, including work in discourse analysis and ethnomethodology, rhetoric and document design, intercultural pragmatics and writing studies, genre analysis, e-semantics and sociolinguistics. Studies from the perspective of marketing or management research are also welcomed.

PAPERS

Submissions are invited for 30-minute slots (including 10 minutes of discussion and question time). Please submit an abstract of 300 words. Add up to 5 keywords and indicate whether the proposal should be included in the research, teaching or practice sections of the convention. In case of a research paper, detail research question, method, data and conclusions.

All individual paper submissions to panels have to be submitted to the panel organizers and not via the website. All other paper submissions have to be submitted online via the ABC-website.

The deadline was 15 December 2009. Contributors will be informed of the decision by 15 January 2010.

POSTERS

Please submit an abstract of 300 words via the ABC-website.

The deadline was 15 December 2009. Contributors will be informed of the decision by 15 January 2010.

The convention language is English, but abstracts in other languages (such as French, German or Spanish) will be considered as well.