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The Indiana Center for Intercultural Communication (ICIC) is a university-based research and service organization created in 1998 to enhance links between the city of Indianapolis, the state of Indiana, and cultures/nations throughout the world. ICIC strives for excellence in language and intercultural training in academic, professional, and other occupational contexts. The center is part of the Indiana University School of Liberal Arts in the Department of English at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). For more about ICIC click here.

Current News

The 6th Conference on Intercultural Rhetoric and Discourse will be held at Georgia Southern University in Atlanta, GA, June 11-12, 2010. For more information:
http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwesl/alesl/conference/

ICIC Spring 2009 Newsletter

ICIC's health literacy project receives $480,000 from Lilly Foundation, June 2007

Afghan Academic ESP training and TOEFL preparation, October 2007-August 2008

Living Language Archives

On Campus Training

ICIC offers courses in English for specific purposes for groups or individuals. Specialized training courses meet the particular language and communication needs of academics and professionals from the community and overseas. These courses are designed for clients such as nonnative English speaking business and government officials, postdoctoral research scientists, medical residents, language teachers, and student groups with specific disciplinary focuses. Contact ICIC for specific information on campus training.

Book Publications

Connor, U., Nagelhout, E., & Rozycki, W. (Eds.). (2008). Contrastive rhetoric. Reaching to intercultural rhetoric. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Biber, D., Connor, U., & Upton, T.A. (2007). Discourse on the move. Using corpus analysis to describe discourse structure. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Connor, U., & Upton, T. (Eds.). (2004). Discourse in the professions: Perspectives from corpus linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Connor, U., & Upton, T. (Eds.). (2004). Applied corpus linguistics: A multidimensional perspective. Amsterdam: Rodopi.

Belcher, D., & Connor, U. (Eds.). (2001). Reflections on multiliterate lives. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

Connor, U. (1996). Contrastive rhetoric. Cross-cultural aspects of second language writing. New York: Cambridge University Press.

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