connexions • international professional communication journal | revista de comunicação profissional internacional is a double-blind, peer-reviewed open-access online publication.
Aims. The journal focuses on the practice, research, pedagogy, methodology, and technology of efficient and effective written, oral, visual, electronic and non-verbal professional communication–academic, business, crisis, development, environmental, health, media, nonprofit, political, research, science, and technical communication–in local, national, international, and global work and civic activity settings, providing a forum for researchers, practitioners, students and emerging scholars from diversified backgrounds, interests, and nationalities.
Subject areas. The journal’s subject areas cover the theory, management, design, development, translation and delivery of international professional information, as well as issues relating to the education and training of its practitioners and researchers.
Topics. The journal topics lie at the intersection of international professional communication and
- Communication and information management (authoring, documentation, content management);
- Communities of practice and ethics (communities of practice, specialties, roles, ethics);
- Education and professional development (pedagogy, approaches, programs, knowledge and competencies);
- History, theory, research (history, theories and applications, research methods and application [quantitative, qualitative, usability studies]);
- Human-computer interface and interaction (interaction paradigms, theories, models, and design; usability; augmented reality, embedded computation; human factors / ergonomics);
- Information delivery and quality (types of publishing, content repurposing; best practices, editing, styleguides, reviews, testing [usability, accessibility], documentation control, quality evaluation, copyright protection);
- Information design and visual communication (design theory, needs assessment and analysis, information architecture, accessibility, content planning, visual and instructional design);
- Information development and artifacts (writing techniques, genres);
- Knowledge domains, databases, terminology (knowledge domains and subject matter, LSP, database design, terminology, corpora, lexicography);
- Rhetoric and functional communication (rhetorical and functional theories and applications in pedagogy, and practice);
- Tools and technologies (tool knowledge, skills and abilities, information development, design, delivery, and communication tools and technologies);
- Translation, interpretation, internationalization, localization, globalization, controlled languages;
- Types of communication and work processes (verbal and non-verbal communication, online communication and virtual communities, local, national, international, crossnational and global communication, intercultural, crosscultural and global communication, collaboration and teaming, production and publication processes).
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Submissions. The journal encourages the submission of original research articles, review articles, and teaching cases. It invites clearly written and informative manuscripts that are solidly grounded in theory and research related to international professional communication, namely rhetorical, functional, social, discourse, agency, activity, actor-network, cultural and intercultural, multimedia and multimodal informed approaches. To submit a manuscript for the journal, click here.
Publishing languages. The main publishing language is English. The journal also publishes manuscripts written in Portuguese, French, and Spanish. Manuscripts in Portuguese, French, and Spanish must contain a 500-word English summary.
Editorial board. The journal ensures an international Editorial Board to carry out blind reviews of the submitted manuscripts, guide the growth and development of the journal, and promote the overarching area of international professional communication.
Issues per annual volume. The journal publishes one issue per annual volume. The journal may publish two annual issues if proposals for a second issue are accepted, and the quality and volume of contributions justifies it.
connexions • international professional communication journal | revista de comunicação profissional internacional (ISSN 1647-2373) is edited by Rosário Durão, and published by the University of Lisbon, Center for Comparative Studies, an R&D institution funded and evaluated by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal. © 2009-2011. All rights reserved.
