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<P>THE ABSTRACTS DEADLINE HAS BEEN MOVED FROM 15 OCTOBER 2004 TO <B>1 NOVEMBER
2004</B>. No further extensions will be possible!</P>
<P>The <B>9TH INTERNATIONAL PRAGMATICS CONFERENCE </B>will be held on 10-15 July
2005 at the Riva del Garda Congressi conference center (www.palacongressi.it ),
RIVA DEL GARDA, ITALY <BR></P>
<P>For the full call for papers, go to the IPrA website at</P>
<P><A href="http://www.ipra.be/"><FONT size=5>www.ipra.be</FONT></A>
</P><B><FONT size=4>
<P>Abstracts submission is entirely web-based. Just visit the site and follow
the instructions</B></FONT><FONT size=3>.</FONT></P>
<P><BR>CONFERENCE CHAIR: Marina SBISA (Univ. of Trieste; sbisama@units.it )
<BR><BR>LOCAL SITE COMMITTEE: The other members of the Local Site Committee are:
Claudia BIANCHI (Univ. of Genova); Paolo BOUQUET (Univ. of Trento); Claudia
CAFFI (Univ. of Genova); Alessandra FASULO (Univ. of Roma ‘La Sapienza’);
Roberta FERRARIO (Univ. of Trento); Franca ORLETTI (Univ. of Roma Tre); Luigi
PERISSINOTTO (Univ. Ca Foscari of Venezia); Fabio PIANESI (Istituto per la
Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Trento); Oliviero STOCK (Istituto per la
Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Trento); Stefano ZANOBINI (Univ. of
Trento).<BR><BR>INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE: In addition to the members
of the Local Site Committee, the International Conference Committee includes:
Karin AIJMER (Univ. of G<FONT face="Times New Roman">ö</FONT>teborg); Jens
ALLWOOD (Univ. of G<FONT face="Times New Roman">ö</FONT>teborg); Charles ANTAKI
(Loughborough Univ.); <BR>Walter DE MULDER (Univ. of Antwerp; IPrA Editor);
Helmut GRUBER (Univ. of Vienna; IPrA Editor); John GUMPERZ (Univ. of California,
Santa Barbara; IPrA President 1986-1990); Monica HELLER (Univ. of Toronto);
Andreas JUCKER (Justus Liebig Univ. Giessen; IPrA Treasurer); Sophia MARMARIDOU
(Univ. of Athens; IPrA Editor); Bonnie McELHINNY (Univ. of Toronto); Jacob MEY
(Odense Univ.); Jan-Ola <FONT face="Times New Roman">Ö</FONT>STMAN (Univ. of
Helsinki); Ben RAMPTON (King's College London); Anna-Brita STENSTR<FONT
face="Times New Roman">Ö</FONT>M (Univ. of Bergen); Elizabeth TRAUGOTT (Stanford
Univ.); Jef VERSCHUEREN (Univ. of Antwerp; IPrA Secretary General); Yorick WILKS
(Univ. of Sheffield); John WILSON (Univ. of Ulster at Jordanstown).</P>
<P> </P><B><FONT size=4>
<P>THEMES: As always, the conference will be open to all themes relevant to the
pragmatics of language in its widest sense as an interdisciplinary cognitive,
social, and cultural perspective. In addition, there is a special theme.
</B></FONT><BR><BR><FONT size=3>SPECIAL THEME: Pragmatics and Philosophy
<BR><BR>It is both interesting and scientifically productive for pragmatics to
revisit and discuss its philosophical starting points and enduring
presuppositions, as well as its philosophical implications. Various
philosophical problems may benefit from being discussed in a pragmatic
perspective, and philosophy itself as a discourse genre is liable to be analyzed
by a pragmatic approach. The range of themes meant to be covered by the special
topic "Pragmatics and Philosophy" therefore includes at least: <BR>•
philosophical heritages of pragmatics: Austin, Grice, Searle, Wittgenstein,
Carnap, pragmatism, phenomenology; <BR>• philosophical frameworks for
pragmatics: speech act theory, neo-Gricean and post-Gricean frameworks, theories
of meaning as use, theories of context, pragmatics and hermeneutics, pragmatics
and cultural studies; <BR>• overlaps between pragmatics and philosophy: the
semantics/pragmatics interface, indexicals, presupposition, implicature, speech
acts, propositional attitudes, context logics, contextualist epistemology,
intentionality and subjectivity, agency, emotions, rhetoric, personal or
collective identities; <BR>• pragmatics of the philosophical discourse genre:
analysis of philosophical discourse, pragmatic approaches to argumentation and
dialogue, pragmatics and the teaching of philosophy. </FONT></P><U>
<P>Plenary lectures will include</U>:</P><B><I>
<P>Rukmini BHAYA NAIR</B></I> (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India),
<I>Pragmatics, pragmatism & the postcolonial</P></I>
<P></P><B><I>
<P>Robyn CARSTON</B></I> (University College London), <I>Pragmatics: From
philosophy to cognitive science</P></I><B><I>
<P>Steven DAVIS</B></I> (Carleton University, Ottawa), <I>Demonstratives and
understanding</P></I><B><I>
<P>Charles GOODWIN</B></I> (Univ. of California at Los Angeles), <I>Multi-modal
action in discourse</P></I><B><I>
<P>Clotilde PONTECORVO</B></I> (Univ. of Roma ‘La Sapienza’), <I>From talking to
reasoning</P></I><B>
<P></P><I>
<P>Marina SBIS<FONT face="WP MultinationalA Roman">A</B></I></FONT> (Univ. of
Trieste), <I>How to read Austin</P></I><B>
<P> </P></B><U>
<P>And there will be a plenary session organized by</U>:</P><B><I>
<P>Paolo BOUQUET </B></I>(Univ. of Trento) <B><I>& Oliviero STOCK
</B></I>(IRST)<B>, </B><I>Computational pragmatics</I>. Guest speaker:
<B><I>Wolfgang WAHLSTER</B></I> (Universit<FONT face="Times New Roman">ä</FONT>t
des Saarlandes).</P>
<P> </P>
<P>CALL FOR PAPERS <BR><B>Abstracts Deadline</B>: 1 November 2004</P>
<P><BR>Two types of paper proposals are invited: <BR><BR>1. For single-paper
presentations to be included in regular <B>lecture </B>sessions (20-minute
presentations followed by 5 minutes for discussion and allowing 5 minutes for
switching between sessions). Author who wish to present their paper as a
<B>poster</B>, may choose to do so.<BR><BR>2. For <B>panels</B> or multi-paper
sessions. Panels take the form of a series of closely related lectures on a
specific topic. They may consist of one, two or three units of 120 minutes.
Within each panel unit an average of four 20-minute presentations are given
consecutively; the rest of the period may be taken up by an introduction, open
discussion, comments by a discussant or discussants, or any combination of
these. Panels are composed of contributions invited by panel organizers,
combined with individually submitted papers when judged appropriate by the
Conference Committee in consultation with the panel organizers. Typically,
written versions or extensive outlines of all panel contributions should be
available to the other contributors before the conference in order to facilitate
discussion. <BR>Note that in addition to a panel abstract (to be submitted by
the panel organizers), abstracts for all panel contributions, even when invited
directly by panel organizers, have to be sent in individually (following the
single-paper presentations option) and will be reviewed individually and
anonymously. <BR><BR>For detailed instructions, go to <A
href="http://www.ipra.be/"><FONT size=4>www.ipra.be</FONT></A></P>
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