FINAL CALL: pragmatics conference, Lodz, 12-14 April 2015 (NDLP2015)

Tue Sep 30 10:26:30 UTC 2014

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

We cordially invite you to submit abstracts for the upcoming NDLP2015 conference:

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FINAL CALL: 7th Lodz Symposium: New
Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics (NDLP2015) University of Łódź, Poland

Department of
Pragmatics 
Łódź, 12-14 April 2015http://anglistyka.uni.lodz.pl/ZPJ?ndlp_2015

CALL FOR PAPERS

This 7th edition
of the NDLP conference series aims to respond to a surge of new research in
pragmatics, with a view to bringing together the novel, empirically, experimentally
and clinically based models, and classical topics/frameworks such as Gricean pragmatics,
Speech Act Theory and presupposition. We encourage papers (re-)examining the
semantics-pragmatics boundary, which has been sometimes blurred by the
confrontation of the new and the traditional frameworks. Proposals are welcome at
the intersection of the philosophy of language and
pragmatics dealing with theoretical, methodological and definitional issues, as
well as issues of interdisciplinarity in pragmatic investigation.

While we specially encourage
presentations of theoretical approaches which have a basis in empirical
studies, or allow for experimentally testable predictions, the conference
continues to be open to all kinds of pragmatics oriented research recognizing
pragmatics as a functional (i.e. cognitive, social and cultural) perspective on
language and communication. This applies to functional studies involving multiple and heterogeneous territories: everyday discourse,
(online) media, education, political and professional settings, problems of
linguistic construction and maintenance of identity, communicative genres, issues
of multilingualism and linguistic pluralism, pragmatic
aspects of translation, pragmatic awareness in foreign language teaching, and
more.

We invite submissions
for regular paper presentations as well as panel contributions. All submissions
should be made in English.

SUBMISSIONS – REGULAR PAPERS

Regular paper presentations will be allocated 20 minutes plus 10 minutes
for questions. Abstracts of max. 350 words should be sent by email as a Word
attachment to strus_pl at yahoo.com (Piotr
Cap, Conference Chair) by 1 November 2014.
Please include name, affiliation, email address and paper title in the body of
the email. Abstracts will be accepted subject to review by an international
Scientific Committee. Notification of acceptance decisions will be communicated
via email by 15 November 2014.

SUBMISSIONS – PANEL CONTRIBUTIONS

PANEL 1, “Revisiting Grice’s Philosophy of Language”(convener Marta Dynel; discussant Michael Haugh). Potential topics include: new perspectives on the Cooperative Principle
and maxims, implicature, speaker meaning, intention; as well as various
communicative phenomena inspired by the Gricean thought, such as irony,
metaphor and other stylistic figures, deception, non-verbal communication,
(im)politeness, etc. Panel contributions will be
allocated 20 minutes each, followed by a general discussion at the end of the
panel. Abstracts of max. 350 words should be sent by email as a Word attachment
to marta.dynel at yahoo.com (Marta
Dynel), cc. strus_pl at yahoo.com (Piotr
Cap) by 1 November 2014. Please
include name, affiliation, email address, contribution title and panel title in
the body of the email. Abstracts will be accepted subject to review by panel
organizers and an international Scientific Committee. Notification of
acceptance decisions will be communicated via email by 15 November 2014.

PANEL 2, “Pragmatics and Society: Discourses
about the 'Other'”(conveners
Andreas Musolff & Monika Kopytowska). The panel will explore the potential
of language to unite and divide, to connect and exclude, to manage public
opinion, dominant ideologies and consensual everyday practices. Potential
topics include: ideology and power relations in discourse, hate speech,
discursive manifestations of racism, anti-Semitism and anti-Islamism, facist
ideologies and right-wing discourses, outward hatred and the “politics of
denial”, collective symbols and individual identities, language and conflict,
dehumanizing metaphors, rhetorical and
argumentative strategies of persuasion, rationalization and
legitimization. Panel contributions will be
allocated 20 minutes each, followed by a general discussion at the end of the
panel. Abstracts of max. 350 words should be sent by email as a Word attachment
to monika.kopytowska at gmail.com (Monika Kopytowska), cc. strus_pl at yahoo.com (Piotr Cap) by 1 November 2014.
Please include name, affiliation, email address, contribution title and panel
title in the body of the email. Abstracts will be accepted subject to review by
panel organizers and an international Scientific Committee. Notification of
acceptance decisions will be communicated via email by 15 November 2014.

NOTE:Conference organizers reserve the right to suggest
assignment of a panel contribution to regular paper presentations.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
The following distinguished
scholars have accepted to address the conference as keynote speakers:

Mira
ARIEL (Tel
Aviv University, Israel)
Rukmini BHAYA NAIR (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India)

Anita
FETZER(University of Augsburg, Germany)
Michael
HAUGH(Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia)
Daniel Z. KADAR (University of Huddersfield, UK)

Andreas
MUSOLFF(University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK)
Jef VERSCHUEREN (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Deirdre WILSON(University College London, UK)
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Prof. Dr. Piotr Cap
Department of Pragmatics
Institute of English, University of Lodz
ul. Pomorska 171/173, 90-236 Lodz, POLAND
tel/fax +48 42 6655220
http://anglistyka.uni.lodz.pl/ZPJ?piotr_cap
http://unilodz.academia.edu/PiotrCap
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