Call-for-papers: AMPRA

[Danjie Su]

Dear colleagues,

Thank you for your attention. Please see below the call-for-papers of
the 2nd Conference of the American Pragmatics Association.

Best,
Daisy
_______________________

Danjie Su

PhD Student

Asian Languages and Cultures

UCLA

Los Angeles, CA 90095
danjiesu at gmail.com

www.danjiesu.com


*2nd Conference of the American Pragmatics Association*

October 17-19, 2014 at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)



2nd Call for Papers

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2014



The goal of the joint conference is to promote both theoretical and applied
research in pragmatics, and bring together scholars who are interested in
different subfields of pragmatics (philosophical, linguistic, cognitive,
social, intercultural, interlanguage, etc.). Three main topics of the
conference are as follows:



1. Pragmatics theories: neo-Gricean approaches, relevance theory, theory of
mind, meaning, role of context, grammaticalization, semantics-pragmatics
interface, explicature, implicature, speech act theory, presuppositions,
im/politeness, experimental pragmatics, etc.

2. Intercultural, cross-cultural and societal aspects of pragmatics:
research involving more than one language and culture or varieties of one
language, lingua franca, technologically mediated communication,
bilinguals’ and heritage speakers’ language use, intercultural
misunderstandings, effect of dual language and multilingual systems on the
development and use of pragmatic skills, language of aggression and
conflict, etc.

3. Applications: usage and corpus-based approaches, pragmatic competence,
teachability and learnability of pragmatic skills, pragmatic variations
within one language and across languages, developmental pragmatics, etc.



Conference website: http://ampra.appling.ucla.edu/



AMPRA website: http://www.albany.edu/ampra/index.html



*Email address for inquires*: ampra14ucla at gmail.com



Abstracts (max. 300 words) are invited for papers on any topic relevant to
the fields of pragmatics and intercultural communication. When submitting
the abstract the presenter should indicate which of the three main topics
(1. Pragmatics theory, 2. Intercultural, cross-cultural, societal aspects
of pragmatics, 3. Applications) s/he thinks the abstract belongs to.



*Online submission* is at http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/Ampra2014



*Abstract deadline*: 15 April 2014

*Notification of acceptance*: 1 June 2014



Please, include your name, affiliation and email address. Abstracts will be
double-blind peer-reviewed, and should include sufficient details to allow
reviewers to judge the scientific merits of the work. Paper presentations
will be allowed 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for questions. All
presentations will be in English.



Panels are welcome. Panel organizers should send an abstract of the panel
(max. 300 words) and abstracts of the panel participants as an email
attachment toampra14ucla at gmail.com. The deadline for panels is the same as
for papers: 15 April 2014.



*Publication:*

Two volumes of selected papers (Mouton de Gruyter, John Benjamins) are
planned.



*Co-Chairs*

Katrina Daly Thompson (UCLA)

Olga Yokoyama (UCLA)

Istvan Kecskes (AMPRA President)



*Organizing Committee*

Lindy Comstock

Katrina Daly Thompson

Nickolas De Carlo

Natalia Konstantinovskaia

Don Lee

Jori Lindley

Ingrid Norrmann-Vigil

Danjie Su

Hongyin Tao

Wei Wang

Patricia Wiley

Olga Yokoyama