Who is "WCA"?
WCA members are professionals around
the world who are interested in the study, teaching, and/or practice of
communication. They are teachers in formal schools and colleges, informal
groups, associations and institutions.
Members are especially interested in
various aspects of speech communication.
Forms: one-to-one conversations or conference; small group
discussion; public speaking; acting and oral reading.
Settings: interviews, small group meetings;
seminars; public assemblies; political campaigns; classrooms and lecture halls;
theatres; business and community organizations; mass communication; and
international and intercultural environments.
Purposes: speaking, reading aloud or acting to entertain; speaking to
inform, inquire, and exchange information; and speaking to persuade, or sustain
loyalties and conventions by influencing attitudes, beliefs, and values.
WCA members are convinced that to
maintain peace throughout the world there must be a mutual understanding among
the people of the world that grows from individual and group interaction. WCA believes that one effective
way to begin this worldwide exchange is by establishing individual and
scholarly contacts among people and across all national and cultural
boundaries.
WCA is dedicated to the improvement
of communication worldwide by linking those people who hold common professional
and personal interests. What
better way is there for persons dedicated to the improvement of communication
than through membership in an association that emphasizes and personifies
common interests among all people across all national and cultural
boundaries? In a worldwide
communication, with international and intercultural emphasis, YOU, too, can make
a world of difference.
(The above article was originally
printed in the Fall 1999 WCA Newsletter).
Additional Information about WCA:
The World Communication Association
is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1983, in Seoul, Korea, as an
outgrowth of the Communication Association of the Pacific (CAP), which was
founded in 1971. At the 1983, CAP
conference in Seoul, then-CAP President Donald Klopf (Professor Emeritus,
University of Hawaii and West Virginia University), proclaimed the first step
to be taken in expanding the horizons of CAP from the Pacific to the world
under the new rubric of the World Communication Association. Since that time,
WCA has grown, both in membership and in international representation. In addition to the Executive Committee
(President, Secretary-General, and Immediate Past President) who conduct the
ongoing business of WCA, a Board of Directors and Board of Advisors govern
WCA. Regional
Vice-Presidents from Africa, Asia-Pacific, Australia/New Zealand, Europe, Latin
America, Malaysia, and North America, serve on the Board of Directors, along
with two at-large members who are elected by WCA members. WCA sponsors
international conferences on odd-numbered years, and a Summer Conference on
International and Intercultural Communication during even-numbered years. The 2007 conference in Brisbane,
Australia is the 19th Biennial conference.
Past WCA Conferences
Past conferences have been held in
the following locations:
1983, Seoul, Korea
1985, Manila, Philippines
1987,
Norwich, England
1989,
Singapore
1991,
Jyvaskyla, Finland
1993,
Pretoria, South Africa
1995,
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1997,
San Jose, Costa Rica
1999,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2001,
Santander, Spain
2003,
Haninge (Stockholm), Sweden
2005
Sapporo, Japan
Six
Presidents have served WCA since its inception:
Donald
Klopf
J.
Jeffery Auer
Ronald
L. Applbaum
Judy
C. Pearson
Sharon
A. Ratliffe
Barbara
S. Monfils
WCA
also publishes a journal, the Journal of Intercultural Communication
Research
(formerly World Communication), and a Newsletter that is sent to members twice a
year.
WCA
Board of Directors
|
President,
WCA International: Barbara
S. Monfils, Associate Vice-Chancellor, Academic Aff428 Hyer Hall University
of Wisconsin-Whitewater 800
W. Main St. Whitewater,
WI 53190-1790 Phone: 262-472-1055 FaX:
262-472-1670
E-mail: monfilsb@uww.edu
|
Board
of Advisors: Jerry
Allen Leo
Chan Judith
Hoover Kenji
Kitao Takehide
Kawashima Donald
Klopf James
C. McCroskey Judy
C. Pearson Sharon
A. Ratliffe |
|
Secretary-General:
Caroline
Hatcher
Queensland
University of Technology Brisbane
Graduate School of Business G.P.O.
Box 2434 Brisbane,
4001, Australia Phone: 61 07 3138 1087
Fax: 61 07 3138 1299 E-mail: c.hatcher@qut.edu.au |
Aino
Salinnen Executive
Committee: Caroline
Hatcher Barbara
S. Monfils Sharon
A. Ratliffe Website Webmaster: |
|
Vice
President: Africa Petrus
C. J. Jordaan, Republic of South Africa |
Leo
Chan University
of Houston – Clear Lake |
|
Vice
President: Asia/Pacific Sung-Gyung
Kim, Korea |
E-mail: ChanTa@UHCL.edu |
|
Vice
President: Australia/New Zealand:
Patsy
McCarthy |
World
Communication Association Journal Journal
of Intercultural Communication Research |
|
Vice
President: Europe Germán
de la Riva CESINE
Business School Santander,
Spain |
Editor:
James
Neuliep Editor
(as of 2008): Jerry Allen
University of New Haven CT,
USA |
|
Vice
President: Latin America Javier
Protzel de Amat Universidad
de Lima, Perú |
|
|
Vice
President: Malaysia Salleh
Hassan Universiti
Putra Malaysia |
|
|
Vice
President: North America Melissa
Beall University
of Northern Iowa |
|
|
At-large
Members: Carolyn
Calloway-Thomas, Indiana University, Bloomington Nancy
Hoar, Western New England College |
|