<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span></span><br clear="none"><span></span><span>Dear Colleagues and Friends,</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br clear="none"><span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span>We cordially invite you to submit abstracts for the NDLP2015 conference:</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div
style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span>===========================================<br></span><br><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">
<div style="text-align:left;" class="yiv4208928749MsoNormal"><font size="6"><b style="
"><span style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;" lang="EN-US"></span></span><i style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;" lang="EN-US"></span></i><span style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;" lang="EN-US">7<sup>th</sup>
Lodz Symposium</span></span></b><b style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;" lang="EN-US"></span></b><b style="
"><span style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;" lang="EN-US">: New
Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics (NDLP2015)</span></span></b></font>
</div><span><span style="
font-size:12.0pt;" lang="EN-US">University of Łódź, Poland</span><span style="
" lang="EN-US"><br></span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="
" lang="EN-US">Department of
Pragmatics</span><span style="
font-size:12.0pt;" lang="EN-US"></span>
</span><div style="text-align:left;" class="yiv4208928749MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="
"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;" lang="EN-US">Łódź, 12-14 April 2015</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;
" lang="EN-US"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://anglistyka.uni.lodz.pl/ZPJ?ndlp_2015">http://anglistyka.uni.lodz.pl/ZPJ?ndlp_2015</a></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br></div><h2><font size="4"><b style=""><span style="
font-size:14.0pt;font-style:normal;" lang="EN-US">CALL FOR PAPERS<br></span></b></font></h2>
<div class="yiv4208928749MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US">This 7<sup>th</sup> 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 <span style="color:black;">intersection of the philosophy of language and
pragmatics dealing with theoretical, methodological and definitional issues, as
well as issues of interdisciplinarity in pragmatic investigation.</span></span></div>
<div class="yiv4208928749MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv4208928749MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US">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 <span style="color:black;">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 </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US">multilingualism and linguistic pluralism,
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US">pragmatic
aspects of translation, pragmatic awareness in foreign language teaching, and
more.</span></div>
<div class="yiv4208928749MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv4208928749MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US">We invite submissions
for regular paper presentations as well as panel contributions. All submissions
should be made in English.</span></div>
<div class="yiv4208928749MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></div>
<div style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
" lang="EN">SUBMISSIONS – REGULAR PAPERS</span></div>
<div style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
" lang="EN"> </span></div>
<div style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
" lang="EN">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 <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:strus_pl@yahoo.com">strus_pl@yahoo.com</a> (Piotr
Cap, Conference Chair) by <b style="">1 November 2014</b>.
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 <b style="">15 November 2014</b>.</span></div>
<div style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
" lang="EN"> </span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN">SUBMISSIONS – PANEL CONTRIBUTIONS</span></div>
<div style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
" lang="EN"> </span></div>
<div style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
" lang="EN">PANEL 1, “Revisiting Grice’s Philosophy of Language”</span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
" lang="EN"> (convener Marta Dynel; discussant Michael Haugh). </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
" lang="EN-US">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. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
" lang="EN">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 <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:marta.dynel@yahoo.com">marta.dynel@yahoo.com</a> (Marta
Dynel), cc. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:strus_pl@yahoo.com">strus_pl@yahoo.com</a> (Piotr
Cap) by <b style="">1 November 2014</b>. 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 <b style="
">15 November 2014</b>.</span></div>
<div style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
" lang="EN-US"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv4208928749MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US">PANEL 2, “<span style="">Pragmatics and Society: Discourses
about the 'Other'”</span></span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US"> (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, <span style="">rhetorical and
argumentative strategies of</span> persuasion, rationalization and
legitimization. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN">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 <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:monika.kopytowska@gmail.com">monika.kopytowska@gmail.com</a>
(Monika Kopytowska), cc. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:strus_pl@yahoo.com">strus_pl@yahoo.com</a>
(Piotr Cap) by <b style="">1 November 2014</b>.
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 <b style="
">15 November 2014</b>.</span></div>
<div class="yiv4208928749MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="
font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv4208928749MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
" lang="EN">NOTE:</span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN"> Conference organizers reserve the right to suggest
assignment of a panel contribution to regular paper presentations.</span></div>
<h2><font size="4"><b style=""><span style="
font-size:14.0pt;font-style:normal;" lang="EN-US">KEYNOTE SPEAKERS</span></b></font></h2>
<div class="yiv4208928749MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US">The following distinguished
scholars have accepted to address the conference as keynote speakers:</span></div>
<div class="yiv4208928749MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv4208928749MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><b style="
"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US">Mira
ARIEL </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US">(Tel
Aviv University, Israel)</span></div>
<div class="yiv4208928749MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><b style="
"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US">Anita
FETZER</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US">
(University of Augsburg, Germany)</span></div>
<div class="yiv4208928749MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><b style="
"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US">Michael
HAUGH</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US">
(Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia)</span></div>
<div class="yiv4208928749MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><b style="
"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US">Andreas
MUSOLFF</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US">
(University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK)</span></div>
<div class="yiv4208928749MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US">Deirdre WILSON</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US">
(University College London, UK)</span></div>
<div class="yiv4208928749MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></div>
<div style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span style="
font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US">6<sup>th</sup>
keynote speaker will be announced at a later date.</span></div><span>=====================================================<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Piotr Cap<br>(Conference Chair)<br></span></div><div> </div><div><font size="3"><font size="2">Prof. zw. dr hab. Piotr Cap<br>Department 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><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://anglistyka.uni.lodz.pl/ZPJ?piotr_cap">http://anglistyka.uni.lodz.pl/ZPJ?piotr_cap</a></font><br><font size="2"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://unilodz.academia.edu/PiotrCap">http://unilodz.academia.edu/PiotrCap</a></font></font></div></div></body></html>