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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Special Issue Call</span></u><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">: <i>Journal
of International and Intercultural Communication</i>  <span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Stretching the Boundaries of International and Intercultural
Communication Scholarship<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">This is a call for abstracts for a special issue of the <i>Journal of International and Intercultural
Communication</i> with the theme, “Stretching the boundaries of international
and intercultural communication (IIC) scholarship.” This special issue invites
studies that reexamine assumptions about what counts as communication in
general, and IIC in particular. For example, given the current globalized,
transnational, and technology driven context, has IIC changed at all? If so,
how? In what new ways has it shifted given our current times of change and
discord? What is the significance of these changes? <span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">We call for studies that address the above questions using
approaches that fall under the umbrella of “language and social interaction”
(LSI). LSI approaches are distinctive in that they highlight how everyday forms
of communication such as text, talk, language use, and other forms of social
interaction play an important role in constituting identities, relationships,
cultures, and communities. We seek LSI studies that analyze IIC as </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">situated in local
cultural contexts and illustrate how participants’ use of <i>new</i> forms of IIC create, recreate, and are formative of current
states of social institutions such as education, law, medicine, economics,
religion, and politics. <span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">IIC </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">can
be “new” in the sense that it occurs via social media or other recently
available technology, stems directly from and/or is being shaped by current
social and political contexts, or is simply a form of communication from
communities that have not thus far been studied or featured </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">in IIC scholarship. <span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Submissions
could take theoretical approaches that highlight shared cultural dimensions of
communication that constitute and organize social life, and/or approaches that highlight
variation in ways community members orient to or negotiate cultural norms in
their everyday interactions. Studies could also take a comparative approach and
provide systematic, cross-cultural comparisons between communication means and
meanings in different local contexts. <span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">The specific
approaches we call for include, but are not limited to: </span>ethnography of
communication, interactional sociolinguistics, sociocultural linguistics, discourse
analysis, socio-pragmatic discourse approaches, and narrative analysis<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">. </span><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Possible focuses include:  <span></span></span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Digital communication<span></span></span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Changes in communication shaped by
current social and political contexts <span></span></span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Communication forms in understudied
communities</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">This special issue will be co-edited by Sunny Lie (Assistant
Professor, Communication, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA)
and Natasha Shrikant (Assistant Professor, Communication, University of
Colorado-Boulder, USA). We are currently accepting abstracts for potential
articles to be included in this special issue. Abstracts should be maximum 300
words. The deadline for abstract submissions is December 11 2017. Abstracts
should be sent as an attachment via email to Sunny Lie at </span><a href="mailto:slie@cpp.edu"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">slie@cpp.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">
or Natasha Shrikant at </span><a href="mailto:Natasha.Shrikant@colorado.edu"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Natasha.Shrikant@colorado.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">. Authors
whose abstract have been selected for the next stage of submission will be
contacted via email and invited to submit full manuscripts by March 5, 2018. The
manuscripts will undergo further review and be considered for publication,
coming out in 2019. Feel free to contact the co-editors with questions via the
abovementioned email addresses. General information about the journal may be
found at:<span></span></span></p>

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