About Us

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The International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication was voted into existence by delegates at the 4th Cross-Cultural Capability Conference, Leeds Metropolitan University, December 1999.

The Association's constitution sets out its aims as follows:

1. The Association will provide support to scholars in their academic life within the field of Languages and Intercultural Communication, and will promote Languages and Intercultural Communication as an academic field.

2. The Association will seek to bring together international scholars and practitioners from a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds, among which, anthropology, sociolinguistics, psychology, literary studies, management and organisation studies, as well as linguists and applied linguists. In so doing, it will seek to:

2.1 create the conditions for a new body of intellectual enquiry which intersects consciously and reflectively with other disciplines;

2.2 represent the living reality of experiences of increased mobility and intercultural communication, as well as addressing the professional concerns brought about by the relocation of the research and the teaching of living languages;

2.3 promote in theory and practice greater intercultural understanding and, thereby, address the causes and the consequences of cultural barriers and racial intolerance.

A full copy of the Association's Constitution is available here.