First Issue
International Professional Communication
yesterday ‹ today › tomorrow
Whether you are a practicing professional whose job requires print or online communication, an academic teaching and researching professional communication, or a student learning about the area, you probably agree that communication in and related to work and civic activity has become increasingly more international in the last thirty years.
You may have noticed that written, oral, and visual communication sent and received across a room, a city, a country, a continent, or around the globe, in a fraction of a second, has greatly supplanted communication in person or by landline phone or written or typewritten on paper and then sent by fax, truck, train or airplane to its destination. You may also have observed that creating goods and services and the accompanying documentation in other countries or continents to be used in different parts of the world is a far more widespread practice now than two or three decades ago when most organizations performed these tasks internally. You may even have noticed that knowledge itself is no longer the distant province of elites from your own or other countries, or something that people acquire in an initial period of formal education for the rest of their lives, but rather a resource that is constantly renewed, enlarged, disseminated, and acquired by individuals anywhere in the world who are brought together by similar interests and activities and the facilitating power of technology. And with greater access to knowledge, means of travel and communication, people are, you may have realized, more attentive to other languages and cultures—in a word, more cosmopolitan.
As someone who depends on efficient and effective communication to get your messages across and to understand the messages of others, you have certainly given considerable thought, and even spoken and written about the ways international professional communication influences, and is influenced by context.
The first issue of connexions • international professional communication journal | revista de comunicação profissional internacional aims at examining the field from your point of view on
- the past, present, and foreseeable future of the practice, research, and teaching of international professional communication, in local, national, international, and global contexts,
and/or - how the practice, research, and teaching of international professional communication has reacted to changes in context, and acted upon its contexts, in different parts of the world.
To participate, please submit brief position papers, or literature reviews addressing the above concerns with regard to these topics:
- The field of international 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).
- International professional communication in specific areas of the world.
- Communication and information management.
- Communities of practice and ethics.
- Education and professional development.
- History, theory/theories, research.
- Human-computer interface and interaction.
- Information delivery and quality.
- Information design and visual communication.
- Information development and artifacts.
- Knowledge domains, databases, terminology.
- Rhetoric and functional communication.
- Tools and technologies.
- Translation, interpretation, internationalization, localization, globalization, controlled languages.
- Types of communication and work processes.
Submission procedures:
- Submit
- cover page containing your name, institutional affiliation, and email address);
- 400-500 word manuscript (complete position paper, or literature review).
- Prepare the cover page and manuscript on letter or A4 size pages, 1.5 line spacing, and Georgia, 12-point font.
- Save the cover page and manuscript in doc, docx, rtf, or pdf format.
- You may contribute to more than one topic.
- Submit your proposal by email to the Editor at editor@connexionsjournal.org. In your email, please specify
- the topic under which you want to list your paper;
- whether you are submitting a position paper, or a literature review.
If you have any questions about your proposal, feel free to contact the Editor.
Schedule:
- Proposal deadline: February 7, 2012 (new deadline).
- Notification of acceptance: March 7, 2012.
- Date of publication: August 1, 2012.
Thank you for considering writing a paper for the First Issue of connexions • international professional communication journal | revista de comunicação profissional internacional.
Rosário Durão
Editor
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.
