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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></span></p>

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<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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