<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">(apologies for cross-posting)<br><br>====================<br><br style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">6th Lodz Symposium</span><br style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics (NDLP2012)</span><br><br>University of Łódź, Poland<br>Chair of Pragmatics<br>Łódź, 26-28 May 2012<br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/pragmatics/ndlp2012">http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/pragmatics/ndlp2012</a><br><br><br><span style="font-weight:bold;">CALL FOR PAPERS</span><br><br>This
10th anniversary 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 and
presupposition theory. 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 philosophy of language and pragmatics
dealing with theoretical, methodological and definitional issues, as
well as issues of interdisciplinarity in pragmatic investigation.<br><br>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, media, education,
political and professional settings, problems of linguistic construction
and maintenance of identity, pragmatic genres, issues of
multilingualism and linguistic pluralism, pragmatic aspects of
translation, pragmatic awareness in foreign language teaching, and more.<br><br>Papers will be allocated 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. The language of the conference is English.<br><br>Abstracts of no more than 350 words (excluding references) should be sent by email as a Word attachment to <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:strus_pl@yahoo.com">strus_pl@yahoo.com</a> (Prof. Piotr Cap, Conference Head) by <span style="font-weight:bold;">15 January 2012</span>.
Please include name, affiliation, email address and paper title in the
body of the email. All abstracts will be accepted subject to review by
an international Scientific Committee. Notification of acceptance
decisions will be communicated via email by 31 January 2012. <br><br><span style="font-weight:bold;">INVITED SPEAKERS</span><br><br>The following scholars have accepted to address the conference as keynote and plenary speakers:<br><br>Keynote lecture:<br>John R. SEARLE (University of California at Berkeley, USA)<br><br>Plenary lectures:<br>Jonathan CULPEPER (Lancaster University, UK)<br>Anita FETZER (University of Wuerzburg, Germany)<br>Istvan KECSKES (State University of New York at Albany, USA)<br>Stephen C. LEVINSON (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics at Nijmegen, the Netherlands)<br>Savas L. TSOHATZIDIS (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)<br>Daniel VANDERVEKEN (University of Quebec at Trois-Rivieres, Canada)<br><br><span style="font-weight:bold;">SPECIAL EVENT</span><br><br>The
conference will be preceded by conferral of the University of Łódź
honoris causa degree on John Searle. The honoris causa ceremony is
scheduled for 25
May 2012. All conference participants are welcome to attend. The venue
of the ceremony will be announced on the conference website.<br><br>=====================<div> </div><div>Prof. zw. dr hab. Piotr Cap<br>Chair of Pragmatics (Head)<br>Institute of English, University of Lodz<br>Al.Kosciuszki 65, 90-514 Lodz, POLAND<br>tel/fax +48 42 6655220<br>http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/pragmatics/faculty/pcap<br>IRP journal link: http://www.brill.nl/irp<br>NDLP2012 conference link: http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/pragmatics/ndlp2012</div></div></body></html>