3rd Annual Multimodal Research Centre Event

Call for Papers

 

In this one-day conference, we will question and discuss the notion that all communication is multimodal. With our conference theme Research into Communication: Theory, method, and practice, we hope to bring together scholars from all areas of Communication Studies, Health and Business Communication, Discourse Analysis, Education, Tourism, and other areas where researchers or research students focus on any aspect of communication.

We welcome quantitative and qualitative approaches as well as mixed method approaches and hope for a lively discussion on the multimodal aspect of research into communication.

The conference will be held at Auckland University of Technology on 2nd December 2011.

Sigrid Norris (AUT) will open the conference with the plenary Multimodality? Then, Rodney H. Jones (City University Hong Kong) will give his plenary (title TBA). After these two plenaries, attendants will split into several concurrent sessions; and will come together at the end of the day for a discussion of the highlights of the conference. At this time, three best student papers at Honours, Masters, and PhD level will be announced and monetary prizes will be awarded.

New process for abstract submission:
Please send a 150-250-word abstract (subject line: MRC conference) to sigrid.norris@aut.ac.nz no later than 15 November 2011. Abstracts will be reviewed as they come in and you will be given a decision within two weeks of sending the abstract.

                          Early Bird Conference fees                                                                                               Fees after 31 October 2011
                          before 31 October 2011
                        

                          Presenting Researchers:                $  80.00                                                                      $ 110.00
                          Presenting Students:                      $  50.00                                                                      $   70.00
                          Non-presenting Researchers:        $  25.00                                                                       $  25.00
                          Non-presenting Students:                   Free                                                                            Free

                          Conference Dinner:                         $ 40.00                                                                       $ 40.00

Morning and afternoon tea will be provided.

For more information see www.multimodalresearch.org