2012 Call for Papers By Please submit your abstract online at www.inlcs.org/2012 before January 27 th, 2011 Participants by Dear Colleagues and Friends The Organizing Committee is pleased to invite you to participate in the International Symposium on Language and Communication: Research trends and challenges (ISLC). The Symposium is to be held 10-13 June 2012 in the Atatürk Congress Center, Ege University, Turkey. ISLC is an international symposium which focuses on the research trends and challenges in the field of interdisciplinary language, literature, history and communication studies at both national and international levels, and their consequences for the theory, policy and practice of a variety of fields such as education, economy, sociology, and all other related fields. ISLC provides an international forum that brings together the latest research trends and challenges discussions, and promotes critical debate, on the often-complex interconnections among language and communication and history, economy, sociology, education, and all related sub-fields. We invite abstracts, papers, and proposals in any of the following tracks: • Literature, History, Art and Humanities, • Business and Economics, • Language Educarion and Teaching • Communication technology and Science. Delegates are required to prepare • 15-minute oral presentations followed by 5-minute question-response periods • Posters (to be displayed at designated times throughout the Symposium) Abstracts and full papers will be double blind reviewed by the referees of the Symposium. Accepted papers and posters will be published in Proceeding Book of ISLC 2012. Please read the guidelines on how to make your online submission before you start the submission process http://www.inlcs.org/2012 Time Table for Call for Papers: Submission of Abstracts Opens : 1th OCT Deadline for Submission of Abstracts : 27 th JAN Early Discount Registration Closes : 16 th MAR Deadline to Register : 6 th APR Full Paper Submission Deadline : 13 th APR ISLC/2012 : 10 th JUN We look forward greatly to your participation in the ISLC 2012 Symposium. Yours sincerely, Prof.Dr. Uğur YAVUZ Faculty of Communication Atatürk University, Turkey Symposium Venue Ege University Atatürk Congress Center Konak, Mithatpaşa Cd, 92, 35260 Yeşiltepe, İzmir, Language The official language of the Symposium will be Turkish and English. All accepted papers will be included in an edited Symposium proceedings CD-ROM and press. The Selected papers presented at the Symposium will, subject to peer-review, be published in the following International Journal of Language and Communication Studies. Subject Areas The congress publishes research papers in the fields of humanities, social sciences and economics such as anthropology, communication studies, demography, education, ethics, geography, history, industrial relations, information science, international relations, law, linguistics, library science, methodology, philosophy, political science, population studies, psychology, public administration, sociology, linguistics, literature, religious studies, visual arts, women studies, management, human resources management, international business, tourism, business ethics, development studies and so on. Papers may address (but are not limited to) the following strands: Communication o Communication Methods and Researches o Cultural Studies, Cultural History, Humanities o Media and Society Studies, Social Communication, Social Media o Professional and Corporate Communications o Mass Communication, Mass Communication History o Communication Law, Policy and Planning o Communication and Difference o Popular Culture, Media Uses and Media Literacy o Intercultural Communication and Global Media Trends o Global Communication, Social Change, Comparative Studies and Migration Studies o Media Studies, Models of Media Systems Analysis o Communication Technologies, ICT, Online Journalism and Online Research Innovations o Ethnicity and Race in Communication, Diasporas Studies o Digital Media, Digital Culture and Human-Technology Interaction and Human Factors o New Media, Internet and New Media Theories o Mobile Technologies Used for Dissemination and Promotion of Art o Innovative Works in Computer-based Art/Digital Art/Animation o Democracy, Politics and Journalism Ethics o Media and Identity o Journalism Studies, Journalism Theory, Press Studies, Promotional Culture o Instructional and Developmental Communication o Interpersonal Communication Research And Criticism o Political Communication o Visual Communication Studies, (Television, Filmmaking, Multimedia, Multi-Standards) o Communication, Training, Cultural Variation and Challenges o Philosophy of Communication o Advertising and Marketing Language o Status/ Survival of Language and Literature o Society and Culture o Discourse Studies o First/Second Language Acquisition o Language Diversity o Language Policy and Planning o Language Rights, Language Policy o Language and Social Interaction o Language and Identity o Multilingualism, Cross-Cultural Communication o National and Local Languages, World Languages o Language and Economic Development o Language for Employability o Language and Social Mobility o Language Teaching: Trends And Challenges o Role of the Culture in Global Supply Chain o Discourse Linguistics o Computational Linguistics, Computational Lexicography. o Language Pragmatics o Cultural and Historical Analysis o Cognitive Linguistics o Methodology of Teaching Foreign Languages o Rhetoric o Sociolinguistics o Language and the Arts o Sociology of Language o Translation Studies ** All other related topics. Organization Institute of Language and Communication Studies (ILCS) President Uğur Yavuz, Atatürk University, Turkey Organization Committee Asiye Burgucu, Kafkas University, Turkey Aslı Erciyeş, Ege University, Turkey Eszter Cecilia HAJDICS-SZÜCS, Kaposvár University, Hungary Feridun Nizam, Ege University, Turkey Iryna Mygovych, Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University, Ukraine Turgay Han, Kafkas University, Turkey Uğur Bakan, Ege University, Turkey Mohammad Yousuf, University of Oklahoma, USA Scientific Committee Ahmet Beşe, Atatürk University, Turkey Ana Luísa Mateus Oliveira Chança Torres, Polytechnic Institute of Santarém, Portugal Andrea Bencéné Fekete, University of Kaposvár, Hungary Ákos Farkas, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary Alain Montandon, Blaise Pascal University, France Ali Güneş, Karabük Üniversitesi, Turkey Cécile Vilvandre De Sousa, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Christiane Binet-Montandon, University Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne, France Cristina Maria Junceiro Novo, Polytechnic Institute of Santarém, Portugal Cüneyt Özata, Ordu University, Turkey Darwis Khudori, University of Le Havre, France Delia Chiaro, University of Bologna, Italy Erdinç Parlak, Atatürk University, Turkey Ewa Waniek-Klimczak, University of Łódź , Poland F. Hülya Özcan, Anadolu University, Turkey Fikret Arargüç, Atatürk University, Turkey Gencer Elkılıç, Kafkas University, Turkey Giuliana Fiorentino, University of Molise, Italy Hacer Hande Uysal, Gazi University, Turkey Hüseyin Efe, Artvin Çoruh University, Turkey Hüseyin Köse, Atatürk University, Turkey Iryna Mygovych, Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University, Ukraine Jason Brown, University of Auckland, New Zealand Jinyan Huang, Niagara University, USA Joanna Nijakowska, University of Łódź, Poland Johanna Monti, University of Naples-L'Orientale, Italy Karey Harrison, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Kemalettin Yiğiter, İstanbul Aydın University, Turkey Lawrence Soley, Marquette University, USA Lubna Abid Ali, Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan Luis-Miguel Cañada, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Massimo Leone, University of Torino, Italy Mehmet Demirezen, Hacettepe University, Turkey Mehmet Takkaç, Atatürk University, Turkey Mustafa Kol, Kafkas University, Turkey Mustafa Özdemir, Kafkas University, Turkey Nijole Brazeniene, Vilnius University, Litvanya Piotr Cap, University of Łódź, Poland Roger Bromley, Lancaster University, UK Rachele Antonini, University of Bologna, Italy Rebeca Soler Costa, University of Zaragoza, Spain Sean D. Williams, Clemson University, USA Selçuk Hünerli, İstanbul Kültür University, Turkey Tetiana Stepykina, Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University, Ukraine Tatiana Megrelishvili, Georgian Technical University, Georgia Tözün Issa, London Metropolitan University, UK Turgut Göğebakan, Atatürk University, Turkey Uğur Yavuz, Atatürk University, Turkey *Sort alphabetically. .