2nd International Symposium on Language and Communication: Exploring novelties
ISLC 2013 – IZMIR-TURKEY
June 17-19, 2013
Ege University Ataturk Culture Center, Izmir, Turkey.
www.inlcs.org
Deadline for extensive abstracts: 15 March 2013

Call for Papers
The ISLC-2013 provides an opportunity for exploring many different facets of interdisciplinary language and communication fields. The ISLC-13 offers a forum for those inside and outside academia to exchange pedagogical and research methods, as well as to explore greater cooperation among the many different constituencies of the field.

Themes
ISLC-2013 provides an opportunity for exploring many different facets of interdisciplinary language and communication fields. ISLC2013 invites researchers from language and communication sciences and from other social sciences to come together to share ideas and opinions, and present original research work. The goal is to create an opportunity for the dissemination of knowledge between the two communities, as well as to enable mutual critical discussion of current research. The symposium solicits original empirical research and experience based case study papers, as well as proposals for poster presentations. It welcomes interdisciplinary papers from the social sciences applying language and communication studies in the study of social phenomena, or applying social concepts in social life.
The symposium will publish 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, literature, religious studies, visual arts, women studies, management, human resources management, international business, tourism, business ethics, development studies and so on.

ISLC 2013 Events:
Plenary sessions: Each panel will be moderated and may also have commentators on the papers presented. Detailed information about panel proposals at: www.inlcs.org
Key Note Speeches: Follow symposium program page at this website for a full listing as information.
Oral Presentations: As with the ILCS’s previous event in 2012, there will be presentations of over 450 papers by scholars from around the world, covering the many different facets of the field. The paper presenters are kindly asked to restrict their presentations to 20 minutes followed by 5 minutes for discussion led by the chair of the session. Each session will therefore have a total duration of 25 minutes.
Poster Presentations: High quality submissions will be accepted for poster presentations at the conference, which will provide the exceptional opportunity to stimulate scientific discussions and exchange novel ideas.
Graduate Student Poster Session: The purpose of the poster session is to provide an opportunity for graduate students to share their work and receive feedback from both professionals and other graduate students.
Workshops: Each workshop has a limited capacity with 20 persons. However, One person can attend more than one workshop. It is not necessary to register for ISLC-2013 in order to attend workshops.
Exhibition: Visual artists around the world can submit applications for the international exhibition ISLC- 2013. The exhibition is open for the following types of artworks: Photography, Graphic, installation art, digital media, video and performance.

Proposal Submission:
Proposals must be written in correct English according to the submission template and formatting guidelines (ISLC-2013 Template). An extended structured abstract of not more than 500 words and not less than 300 words using the following five required headings must be prepared:

For empirical papers:
- Problem statement
- Purpose of the study
- Methods
- Findings and the results
- Conclusions

For discussion papers:
- Background
- Purpose of the study
- Sources of evidence
- Main argument
- Conclusions

- After the review process, the submitted papers will be published in the book of proceedings, Macro World Publishing journals (Journal of Social Media Studies, Journal of American Studies: Eurasian Perspectives, Journal of Educational Policies and Current Practices), Verbum Journal, Macro World Publishing books and/or Cambridge Scholarly Publishing under ISBN. The selection process is double blind, so the authors must not insert their name, affiliation or own publications in the submitted papers.

Timeline
Deadline for extensive abstracts: 8 March 2013
Full paper submission deadline: 1 April 2013
Revised draft submission deadline: 15 April 2013
Anticipated publication date: June 2013
The registration deadline: May 30, 201
Anticipated publication date for late submissions: September 2013

Kind regards,
ISLC 2013 Organizing Committee

Prof.Dr.Ugur Yavuz
www.inlcs.org
islc@inlcs.org