<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div style="" class="">Dear Colleagues and Friends,</div><div style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: garamond,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span class="" style="">We cordially invite you to submit abstracts for the upcoming 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;" class=""><br><span class="" style=""></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;" class=""><span class="" style="">==================================================<br></span></div><div class=""
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<div style="text-align:left;" class=""><font style="" class="" size="6"><b class="" style=""><span class="" style=""><span class="" style="font-size:12.0pt;" lang="EN-US">FINAL CALL</span></span><i class="" style=""><span class="" style="font-size:12.0pt;" lang="EN-US">: </span></i><span class="" style=""><span class="" style="font-size:12.0pt;" lang="EN-US">7<sup style="" class="">th</sup>
Lodz Symposium</span></span></b><b class="" style=""><span class="" style="font-size:12.0pt;" lang="EN-US"></span></b><b class="" style=""><span class="" style=""><span class="" style="font-size:12.0pt;" lang="EN-US">: New
Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics (NDLP2015)</span></span></b></font>
</div><span style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-size:12.0pt;" lang="EN-US">University of Łódź, Poland</span><span class="" style="" lang="EN-US"><br style="" class=""></span></span></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;"><span class="" style="font-weight:normal;"><span class="" style="" lang="EN-US">Department of
Pragmatics</span><span class="" style="font-size:12.0pt;" lang="EN-US"></span>
</span><div style="text-align:left;" class=""><span class="" style="font-weight:normal;"><span class="" style=""><span class="" style="font-size:12.0pt;" lang="EN-US">Łódź, 12-14 April 2015</span></span></span></div>
<span class="" style="font-size:10.0pt;" lang="EN-US"><a rel="nofollow" style="" class="" target="_blank" href="http://anglistyka.uni.lodz.pl/ZPJ?ndlp_2015">http://anglistyka.uni.lodz.pl/ZPJ?ndlp_2015</a></span></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br style="" class=""></div><h2 style="" class=""><font style="" class="" size="4"><b class="" style=""><span class="" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-style:normal;" lang="EN-US">CALL FOR PAPERS<br style="" class=""></span></b></font></h2>
<div class="" style="text-align:justify;"><span class="" style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US">This 7<sup style="" class="">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 class="" 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="" style="text-align:justify;"><span class="" style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></div>
<div class="" style="text-align:justify;"><span class="" 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 class="" 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 class="" style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US">multilingualism and linguistic pluralism,
</span><span class="" style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US">pragmatic
aspects of translation, pragmatic awareness in foreign language teaching, and
more.</span></div>
<div class="" style="text-align:justify;"><span class="" style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></div>
<div class="" style="text-align:justify;"><span class="" 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="" style="text-align:justify;"><span class="" style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;"><span class="" style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN">SUBMISSIONS – REGULAR PAPERS</span></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;"><span class="" style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN"> </span></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;"><span class="" 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" style="" class="" target="_blank" href="mailto:strus_pl@yahoo.com">strus_pl@yahoo.com</a> (Piotr
Cap, Conference Chair) by <b class="" 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 class="" style="">15 November 2014</b>.</span></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;"><span class="" style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN"> </span></div>
<div style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN">SUBMISSIONS – PANEL CONTRIBUTIONS</span></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;"><span class="" style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN"> </span></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;"><u style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN">PANEL 1, “Revisiting Grice’s Philosophy of Language”</span></u><span class="" style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN"> (convener Marta Dynel; discussant Michael Haugh). </span><span class="" 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 class="" 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" style="" class="" target="_blank" href="mailto:marta.dynel@yahoo.com">marta.dynel@yahoo.com</a> (Marta
Dynel), cc. <a rel="nofollow" style="" class="" target="_blank" href="mailto:strus_pl@yahoo.com">strus_pl@yahoo.com</a> (Piotr
Cap) by <b class="" 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 class="" style="">15 November 2014</b>.</span></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;"><span class="" style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></div>
<div class="" style="text-align:justify;"><u style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US">PANEL 2, “<span class="" style="">Pragmatics and Society: Discourses
about the 'Other'”</span></span></u><span class="" 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 class="" style="">rhetorical and
argumentative strategies of</span> persuasion, rationalization and
legitimization. </span><span class="" 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" style="" class="" target="_blank" href="mailto:monika.kopytowska@gmail.com">monika.kopytowska@gmail.com</a>
(Monika Kopytowska), cc. <a rel="nofollow" style="" class="" target="_blank" href="mailto:strus_pl@yahoo.com">strus_pl@yahoo.com</a>
(Piotr Cap) by <b class="" 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 class="" style="">15 November 2014</b>.</span></div>
<div class="" style="text-align:justify;"><span class="" style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN"> </span></div>
<div class="" style="text-align:justify;"><u style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN">NOTE:</span></u><span class="" 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 style="" class=""><font style="" class="" size="4"><b class="" style=""><span class="" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-style:normal;" lang="EN-US">KEYNOTE SPEAKERS</span></b></font></h2>
<div class="" style="text-align:justify;"><span class="" 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="" style="text-align:justify;"><span class="" style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></div>
<div class="" style="text-align:justify;"><b class="" style=""><span class="" style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US">Mira
ARIEL </span></b><span class="" style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US">(Tel
Aviv University, Israel)<br style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-weight:bold;">Rukmini</span> <span class="" style="font-weight:bold;">BHAYA NAIR</span> (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India)<br style="" class=""></span></div>
<div class="" style="text-align:justify;"><b class="" style=""><span class="" style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US">Anita
FETZER</span></b><span class="" style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US">
(University of Augsburg, Germany)</span></div>
<div class="" style="text-align:justify;"><b class="" style=""><span class="" style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US">Michael
HAUGH</span></b><span class="" style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US">
(Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia)<br style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-weight:bold;">Daniel Z.</span> <span class="" style="font-weight:bold;">KADAR</span> (University of Huddersfield, UK)<br style="" class=""></span></div>
<div class="" style="text-align:justify;"><b class="" style=""><span class="" style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US">Andreas
MUSOLFF</span></b><span class="" style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US">
(University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK)<br style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-weight:bold;">Jef VERSCHUEREN</span> (University of Antwerp, Belgium)<br style="" class=""></span></div>
<b class="" style=""><span class="" style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US">Deirdre WILSON</span></b><span class="" style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US">
(University College London, UK)<br style="" class="">===============================</span><div style="" class=""> </div><div style="" class=""><font style="" class="" size="3"><font style="" class="" size="2">Prof. Dr. Piotr Cap<br style="" class="">Department of Pragmatics<br style="" class="">Institute of English, University of Lodz<br style="" class="">ul. Pomorska 171/173, 90-236 Lodz, POLAND<br style="" class="">tel/fax +48 42 6655220<br style="" class=""><a style="" class="" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://anglistyka.uni.lodz.pl/ZPJ?piotr_cap">http://anglistyka.uni.lodz.pl/ZPJ?piotr_cap</a></font><br style="" class=""><font style="" class="" size="2"><a style="" class="" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://unilodz.academia.edu/PiotrCap">http://unilodz.academia.edu/PiotrCap</a></font></font></div></div></body></html>