About Elements in Intercultural Communication:
Intercultural communication is a highly dynamic and interdisciplinary field of theoretical, methodological and pedagogical relevance to scholars working in diverse areas of the social and human sciences. These Elements present innovative perspectives and cutting-edge empirical research on key theoretical constructs, domains and functions, and issues of applied relevance in the field of intercultural communication. The series seeks to capture diverse understandings of intercultural communication phenomena anchored in a range of epistemological traditions, including decolonial work. The Elements challenge conventional understandings and highlight newly emerging research on the relationship between language and culture, notions such as ‘culture’ and ‘community’, and the communicative processes that contribute to understanding, conflict and meaning making.
The series covers both current core issues in intercultural communication and newly arising areas of research. We welcome proposals with a range of foci including theory, research, methodology and education. The following is an indicative list of essential and cutting-edge topics that the series seeks to address in relation to intercultural communication:
- Epistemological diversity
- Language and culture
- Cognition
- Identity and ideology
- Intercultural language education
- Intercultural communicative competence/awareness
- Intercultural rapport
- Intercultural/Global citizenship
- Digital communication
- Migration, multilingualism and superdiversity
- Workplace communication
- Media and literature domains
- Trans perspectives (including transcultural communication, translanguaging and transmodality)
- Global Englishes and English as a multilingual franca
- Social justice
- Posthumanism
While these areas are of great interest the list is non-comprehensive, and the editors are open to innovative suggestions from potential authors. We invite research and ideas from both established and newly emerging scholars. Proposals that increase the diversity of voices in the field, expand the traditional focus beyond Europe and North America, and include insights from Asia, South America, the Middle East and Africa will be particularly encouraged.
Please feel free to contact the editors directly to discuss your potential submissions:
Will Baker (W.Baker@soton.ac.uk), Troy McConachy (t.mcconachy@unsw.edu.au) and Sonia Morán-Panero (S.Moran-Panero@soton.ac.uk)
About the Editors:
Will Baker is Director of the Centre for Global Englishes and an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Southampton. His research interests are Intercultural and Transcultural Communication, English as a Lingua Franca, English medium education, Intercultural education and ELT, and he has published and presented internationally in all these areas. Recent publications include: co-author of ‘Transcultural Communication through Global Englishes’ (Routledge 2021), co-editor of the ‘Routledge Handbook of English as a Lingua Franca’ (2018), and author of the monograph ‘Culture and Identity through English as a Lingua Franca: rethinking concepts and goals in intercultural communication’ (DGM 2015). He has published on subjects related to intercultural communication in many leading journals including, TESOL Quarterly, Language and Intercultural Communication, ELT Journal, Language Teaching, Language Teaching Research, and Language, Culture and Curriculum. He is also co-editor of the book series ‘Developments in English as Lingua Franca’ (De Gruyter Mouton).
Troy McConachy is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at University of New South Wales. His work aims to make interdisciplinary connections between the fields of (language) education and intercultural communication, focusing particularly on the role of metapragmatic awareness in intercultural communication and intercultural learning. He has published articles in journals such as ELT Journal, Language Awareness, Intercultural Education, the Language Learning Journal, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, and others. His is author of the monograph 'Developing Intercultural Perspectives on Language Use: Exploring Pragmatics and Culture in Foreign Language Learning' (Multilingual Matters), and he has co-edited 'Teaching and Learning Second Language Pragmatics for Intercultural Understanding' (with Tony Liddicoat), and 'Negotiating Intercultural Relations: Insights from Linguistics, Psychology, and Intercultural Education(with Perry Hinton). He is also Founding Editor and former Editor-in-Chief (2017-2024) of the international journal Intercultural Communication Education (Castledown).
Sonia Morán Panero is a Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Southampton. Her academic expertise is on the sociolinguistics of the use and learning of English for transcultural communication purposes. Her work has focused particularly on language ideologies around Spanish and English as global languages, English language policies and education in Spanish-speaking settings and English medium instruction on global education. She has published on these areas through international knowledge dissemination platforms such as ELTJ, JELF, the Routledge Handbook of English as a Lingua Franca (2018) and the British Council (in press), and is currently working on a monograph and an edited volume for the Contributions to the Sociology of Language and Developments in English as a lingua Franca book series (DGM, forthcoming). She is also Reviews Editor in JELF.
Editorial Board:
Professor Zhu Hua, University of Birmingham
Professor Ali Abdi, The University of British Columbia
Dr Tomokazu Ishikawa, Tamagawa University
Dr Ron Darvin, The University of British Columbia
Dr Anne Kankaanranta, Aalto University
Dr Xiaodong Dai, Shanghai Normal University
Dr Sender Dovchin, Curtin University
Professor Phan Le Ha, University of Hawaii and Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Professor Jose Aldemar Alvarez Valencia, Universidad del Valle
