ABC Special Topics Conference:

Business Discourse
The Association for Business Communication

May 21-22, 2009

University of Southern California

1. Cognitive Organization and Identity Maintenance in Multicultural Teams
   Jolanta Aritz, Robyn C. Walker, University of Southern California
2. Unleashed: the role of controlled anger to really communicate and the implications for Business Discourse
   John Gunson, University of Wales Institute Cardiff; Rakesh Godhwani and Catherine Nickerson, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
3. A qualitative analysis of differences in the features of telephone and face-to-face conferences
   Dorothea Halbe, University of Trier, Germany
4. The Face of the Firm: Articulating Identity through CSR-Related Diversity Rhetoric
   Jane Ahlering, London School of Economics and University of Southern California
5. Perceptual Differences: Men and Women@ Work
   Asha Kaul, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
6. Rhetorical Appeals in Thai Annual Reports: An Investigation of the Authority’s Language in the Executive Letter during Asia’s Economic Crisis
   Ora-Ong Chakorn, Graduate School of Language and Communication, Thailand
7. Same Language, Different Meaning(s)?: Towards a Global Framework of Business Writing
   Anita Pandey, Morgan State University, Baltimore
8. Discourse in Organizational Risks and Compliance: Fuzzy Legitimacy in Ethical Problems in Japan
   Toru Kiyomiya, Seinan Gakuin University
9. Hype and Reality: The Changing Discourse of Dot-coms in the Media 1992-2008
   Wendy Cukier, Peter Malachy Ryan, and Jaigris Hodson, Ryerson University/Ryerson University/York University

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