Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]> Received: from MIAMIU (NJE origin SMTP3@MIAMIU) by MIAMIU.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU (LMail V1.2c/1.8c) with BSMTP id 2076; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 21:24:12 -0500 Received: from stream.mcs.muohio.edu by MIAMIU.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with TCP; Wed, 24 Sep 97 21:24:11 EST Return-path: [log in to unmask] Return-path: [log in to unmask] Received: from DIRECTORY-DAEMON by po.muohio.edu (PMDF V5.1-10 #19148) id <[log in to unmask]> for [log in to unmask]; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 21:24:29 EDT Received: from MIAMIU.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU ("port 36563"@miamiu.acs.muohio.edu) by po.muohio.edu (PMDF V5.1-10 #19148) with SMTP id <[log in to unmask]> for [log in to unmask]; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 21:24:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from MIAMIU.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU by MIAMIU.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 8692; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 21:24:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from MIAMIU.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@MIAMIU) by MIAMIU.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU (LMail V1.2c/1.8c) with BSMTP id 2062; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 21:24:07 -0500 Received: from MIAMIU (NJE origin SMTP3@MIAMIU) by MIAMIU.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU (LMail V1.2c/1.8c) with BSMTP id 2007; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 21:23:19 -0500 Received: from post6.inre.asu.edu by MIAMIU.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with TCP; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 21:23:18 -0500 (EST) Received: from ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU by asu.edu (PMDF V5.1-8 #7723) with SMTP id <[log in to unmask]> for [log in to unmask]; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 18:21:38 -0700 (MST) Received: from ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU by ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R4) with BSMTP id 1191; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 18:17:46 -0700 (MST) Received: from ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU (NJE origin ATSGP@ASUACAD) by ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU (LMail V1.2c/1.8c) with BSMTP id 9710; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 18:17:46 -0700 Received: from ASUACAD (NJE origin SMTP3@ASUACAD) by ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU (LMail V1.2c/1.8c) with BSMTP id 3103; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 12:45:53 -0700 Received: from sscf.ucsb.edu (128.111.222.10) by ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R4) with TCP; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 12:45:51 -0700 (MST) Received: from [128.111.223.211] by sscf.ucsb.edu (SMI-8.6/HSSC.UCSB-v1.2) id MAA27907; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 12:46:10 -0700 Resent-date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 18:17:27 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 13:43:05 -0800 Resent-from: Sandra <[log in to unmask]> From: [log in to unmask] (Howard Giles) Subject: final Call for own circo Resent-to: [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] Resent-message-id: <[log in to unmask]> Message-id: <[log in to unmask]> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Thought you all might be interested. Cheers, Sandra Professor Sandra Petronio Department of Communication P.O. Box 871205 Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-1205 o 602-965-4600 h 602 820-6066 ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue on (Mis)Communicating Across Boundaries Guest Editors: Howard Giles Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara Cindy Gallois Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane & Sandra Petronio Communication, Arizona State University, Tempe Deadline for Submissions: March 1 1998 Recently, CR has rightly celebrated cultural diversity and applauded the benefits and challenges of globalization through its Special Issues. But what is intriguing to us is that processes of centralization, unification, homogenization, common languaging, and the like are challenged by vociferous demands for group autonomy and the protection, resurrection, and creation of group boundaries - and hence seeming fragmentation. Witness the revival of ethnicities all around the world as well as dramatic increases in hate speech. Processes of boundary creation can be found in all social groupings - for example, in gay rights, anti-harassment rules, and the evolution of Generation X (and others). Indeed, we all do "boundary work" at differing levels, such as in guarding our personal space from parents and the media, avoiding getting relationally too close to subordinates in the workplace, and sustaining our group identities by, for example, acting our age. This raises a question about whether boundaries ought to be transcended and whether "boundarilessness" can be attained or represents an ideal. We need, as many organizational scholars attest, to understand more about the social functions of boundaries and the contexts where their forms actually promote a healthy workplace and society. This Special Issue will examine how, when, and why messages are triggered by group boundaries and the mechanisms that maintain them. While metaphors of bridges, barriers, margins, transition and buffer zones are useful for our purposes, the focus on "boundaries" here is deliberate. First, a move toward "boundary theory" already exists in interpersonal and organizational communication with regard to privacy and boundary spanning. It seems important to determine when our personal, family, cultural, and political (and other group) boundaries intersect and fluctuate in their relative and/or simultaneous salience. Second, the notion of boundaries presupposes and appeals to a host of other constructs in our academic armory, such as identities, conflict, power, stereotyping, norms, prejudice, expectancies, justice, and even morality. Of special import here would be the dynamics of miscommunication. Clearly, encountering boundaries (be they, for example, ethical or sexual) can lead to problematic talk and problematic media given the interests and identities of those being bounded. When boundaries collide, the potential for miscommunication between people in business, organizations, health, education, and elsewhere is rife. Third, it is a core construct in much theorizing in social geography, geolinguistics, demography, sociology, social psychology, and anthropology, and hence we have a reservoir of knowledge and ideas to call upon from elsewhere. Boundaries then provide us with complex and exciting agendi across widely-different methodological and/or ideological contexts. These include those: with health concerns (e.g., the consequences of being recipients of abuse and dignitary harm); in popular culture and story-telling where many of our boundaries are graphically sustained and challenged; and in mass media where social images of group boundaries can be created with variable effects. Boundaries are constantly changing, cognitively and affectively, as also illustrated in the dramatic increase of mixed-racial marriages and relationships across societies. New technologies allow new questions to be asked and new possibilities for the maintenance and management of boundaries (as in the use of "old world" videos by immigrant groups to fortify cultural maintenance). The possibilities are there to be mined and we encourage submissions to this Special Edition across all boundary issues whether they be legal, educational, existential, or other. Indeed, we are seeking a diverse, yet coherent, set of papers for this Issue. Our preference is for papers which are theoretically-driven, empirical studies having applied significance. Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with APA 4th edition format. Although the FINAL deadline appears above, we encourage earlier submission. Four hard copies of manuscripts should be submitted to the following address: Professor Howard Giles, Dept. of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4020, USA Phone: [805] 893-4657 FAX: [8050 893-7102 Email: [log in to unmask]