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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Jef Verschueren<BR>IPrA, University of
Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1<BR>B-2610 Wilrijk, Belgium<BR>tel. +32-3-8202773,
fax & tel. +32-3-2305574<BR><A
href="mailto:versch@uia.ua.ac.be">versch@uia.ua.ac.be</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2><B><FONT size=4>
<P>7<SUP>th</SUP> INTERNATIONAL PRAGMATICS CONFERENCE</P>
<P>Budapest, Hungary, 9-14 July 2000</P></FONT>
<P>Check the IPrA home page for more details at <A
href="http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/">http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/</A>
</P></B><U>
<P>DO NOT MISS THE NOVEMBER 1<SUP>ST</SUP> ABSTRACTS DEADLINE</P></U>
<P>The <B>7<SUP>th</SUP> International Pragmatics Conference</B> will be held on
<B>9-14 July 2000</B> on the premises of <I>Budapest Technical University</I>
(Building K), the largest institution of higher education in Hungary, situated
on the Buda side of the city, overlooking the Danube, 10 minutes from the city
center.</P><B>
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<P>CONFERENCE CHAIR: <I>Ferenc KIEFER</B></I> (IPrA President and Director of
the Linguistic Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)</P><B>
<P>LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:<I> József ANDOR</B></I> (Pécs),
<B><I>Wolfgang DRESSLER</B></I> (Vienna), <B><I>László
KOMLÓSI</B></I> (Pécs), <B><I>Zoltán KÖVECSES</B></I>
(Budapest), <B><I>Enik<FONT face="WP MultinationalA Roman">Å</FONT>
NÉMETH</B></I> (Szeged), <B><I>Csaba PLÉH</B></I> (Szeged),
<B><I>Gábor TOLCSVAI NAGY</B></I> (Budapest)</P><B>
<P>INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE</B>: In addition to the members of the
Local Organizing Committee, the International Conference Committee will include:
<B><I>Christiane BALTAXE</B></I> (Los Angeles), <B><I>Laura BENIGNI</B></I>
(Rome),<B><I> Josie BERNICOT</B></I> (Paris), <B><I>Jan BLOMMAERT</B></I>
(Ghent), <B><I>Thorstein FRETHEIM</B></I> (Trondheim), <B><I>Monica
HELLER</B></I> (Toronto), <B><I>Alexandra JAFFE</B></I> (Hattiesburg),
<B><I>Manfred KIENPOINTNER</B></I> (Innsbruck), <B><I>Kang-Kwong LUKE</B></I>
(Hong Kong), <B><I>Jan NUYTS</B></I> (Antwerp), <B><I>Klaus-Uwe PANTHER</B></I>
(Hamburg), <B><I>Ben RAMPTON</B></I> (London),<B><I> Srikant SARANGI</B></I>
(Cardiff), <B><I>Alain TROGNON</B></I> (Nancy), <B><I>Jef VERSCHUEREN</B></I>
(Antwerp)</P></DIR></DIR><B>
<P>TOPICS</P></B>
<P>The conference is <B>open to all topics of interest to pragmatics</B> in its
widest sense as a cognitive, social, and cultural perspective on langauge and
communication. The <B>special topic</B> of this edition of the International
Pragmatics Conferences is <B><I>Cognition in language use:</B> The role of
perception and representation, memory and planning, and metalinguistic
awareness.</P></I><B>
<P>PLENARY LECTURES</B> (titles are tentative)</P>
<DIR>
<DIR><B><FONT face="Dutch Roman 12pt">
<P>Jens ALLWOOD</B> (Göteborg), "Activity-based analysis of meaning
and interaction"</P></FONT><B>
<P>Wolfgang DRESSLER</B> <B>& Heinz STARK</B> (Vienna), "Clinical
impairments of text pragmatics: Linguistic or
cognitive?"</P></DIR></DIR><B>
<P>
Ray GIBBS</B> (Santa Cruz), "Inferring what speakers say and what they
mean"</P>
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<DIR><B>
<P>Auli HAKULINEN</B> (Helsinki), "What can a grammarian learn from
conversation analysis?"</P><B><FONT face="Dutch Roman 12pt">
<P>Maya HICKMANN</B> (Paris), "Cognition and language in child development:
Old questions, new directions"</P></DIR></DIR></FONT><B>
<P>
John LUCY</B> (Chicago)<FONT face="Dutch Roman 12pt">, </FONT>"Fashions of
speaking: Linguistic relativity in the social sciences"</P><B>
<P>
Csaba PLÉH</B> (Szeged), "Language processing &
modularity"</P>
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<DIR><B>
<P>Michael TOMASELLO</B> (Leipzig), "The pragmatics of word learning in
early child language"</P><B></DIR></DIR>
<P>OTHER EVENTS</B> include regular <B>lecture</B> sessions, <B>poster</B>
sessions, <B>panels</B>, and <B>data sessions</B>.</P><B>
<P>PANELS</B> on a wide range of topics (both in the special topic area and in
domains of general interest) are now being prepared by Charles ANTAKI
(Loughborough), Michael BAMBERG (Worcester), Marcel BAX (Groningen), Norine
BERENZ (Johannesburg), Josie BERNICOT (Poitiers), Károly BIBOK (Szeged),
Igor BOGUSLAVSKY (Moscow), Agnes BOLONYAI (Greenville), John BONVILLIAN
(Charlottesville), Patrick BOYLAN (Rome), Frank BRISARD (Antwerp),
Geneviève CALBRIS (Paris), Helena CALSAMIGLIA (Barcelona), Robyn CARSTON
(London), Rebecca CLIFT (Colchester), Charles COLEMAN (Laurelton), Hubert
CUYCKENS (Leuven), Emmanuelle DANBLON (Brussels), Anaïd DONABEDIAN (Paris),
Anna DUSZAK (Warsaw), Derek EDWARDS (Loughborough), Richard EPSTEIN (Camden),
Susan ERVIN-TRIPP (Berkeley), Anita FETZER (Stuttgart), Nathalie FRANKEN
(Brussels), Elin FREDSTED (Sonderborg), Dariusz GALASINSKI (Wolverhampton),
Susan GASS (East Lansing), Vincent GIROUL (Louvain), Eric GRILLO (Paris), Yueguo
GU (Beijing), Michèle GUIDETTI (Poitiers), Joan Kelly HALL (Athens,
Georgia), Jo van den HAUWE (Brussels), Paul ten HAVE (Amsterdam), Elizabeth HOLT
(Huddersfield), Noël HOUCK (Tokyo), Christian HUDELOT (Paris), Sachiko IDE
(Tokyo), Geert JACOBS (Antwerp), Alexandra JAFFE (Hattiesburg), Karol JANICKI
(Bergen), Katarzyna JASZCZOLT (Cambridge), Adam JAWORSKI (Cardiff), Andreas
JUCKER (Giessen), István KECSKÉS (Missoula), András
KERTÉSZ (Debrecen), Peter KLOTZ (Bayreuth), László
KOMLÓSI (Pécs), Tom KOOLE (Utrecht), Zoltán KÖVECSES
(Budapest), Philippe KREUTZ (Brussels), Amy KYRATZIS (Santa Barbara), Sakis
KYRATZIS (Kingston), Ritva LAURY (Fresno), Anne LEFEBVRE (Paris), Cláudia
de LEMOS (Campinas), Marta MALECZKI (Szeged), Ivana MARKOVA (Stirling), Harrie
MAZELAND (Groningen), Christiane MEIERKORD (Erfurt), Ulrike MEINHOF (Bradford),
Christine MICHAUX (Brussels), Lorenza MONDADA (Basel), Annie MONTAUT (Paris),
Enik<FONT face="WP MultinationalA Roman">Å</FONT> NÉMETH (Szeged),
Neal NORRICK (Saarbrücken), Jan NUYTS (Antwerp), Patricia O’CONNOR
(Georgetown), Jan-Ola ÖSTMAN (Helsinki), Yuling PAN (Hong Kong), Klaus-Uwe
PANTHER (Hamburg), Tunde PAPP (Missoula), Aneta PAVLENKO (Philadelphia), Miriam
PETRUCK (Berkeley), Ingrid PILLER (Hamburg), Uta QUASTHOFF (Dortmund),
Kanavillil RAJAGOPALAN (Campinas), Anne SALAZAR ORVIG (Paris), Anne Catherine
SIMON (Louvain), Claude SIONIS (Nantes), Jan ten THIJE (Chemnitz), Alain TROGNON
(Nancy), Ken TURNER (Brighton), Tuija VIRTANEN (Vaxjo), Johannes WAGNER
(Odense), Claudia WANDERLEY (Brazil), Suwako WATANABE (Portland), Michel
WAUTHION (Louvain), Li WEI (Newcastle), Ruth WODAK (Vienna), Sayoko YAMASHITA
(Tokyo), Vladimir ZEGARAC (Luton)</P><I>
<P>The titles of all panels in preparation will be posted on the IPrA website in
the beginning of Ocrtober. The deadline for panel proposals has now
passed.</P></I><B>
<P>CALL FOR PAPERS</P></B><I>
<P>Letters of intent</I> for the organization of <B>panels</B> are no longer
accepted.</P><I>
<P>Paper submissions</I> for <B>panel contributions</B> (whether invited by the
panel organizer(s) or sent in spontaneously), <B>lectures</B> and
<B>posters</B>, as well as <I>proposals for data sessions</I> should be sent
<B><I>before November 1<SUP>st</SUP> 1999</B></I> to the IPrA Secretariat.</P>
<P>For detailed <B>instructions</B> for the submission of conference
contributions, as well as for <B>information</B> on registration and other
conference-related matters, contact:</P>
<P align=center>IPrA Secretariat</P>
<P align=center>P.O. Box 33 (Antwerp 11)</P>
<P align=center>B-2018 Antwerp</P>
<P align=center>Belgium</P>
<P align=center>tel. + fax +32-3-230 55 74</P>
<P align=center>e-mail: <A href="mailto:ipra@uia.ua.ac.be">ipra@uia.ua.ac.be</A>
</P>
<P>or consult our home page: <A
href="http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/">http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/</A>
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