23.1378, Calls: Pragmatics, Ling Theories, Semantics, Socioling/USA

Mon Mar 19 14:39:36 UTC 2012

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Subject: 23.1378, Calls: Pragmatics, Ling Theories, Semantics, Socioling/USA

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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:38:43
From: Pilar Garces Blitvich [pgblivi at uncc.edu]
Subject: 1st International Pragmatics Conference of the Americas

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Full Title: 1st International Pragmatics Conference of the Americas 
Short Title: AMPRA 

Date: 19-Oct-2012 - 21-Oct-2012
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina, USA 
Contact Person: Pilar Garces Blitvich
Meeting Email: AmPra12 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://clas-pages.uncc.edu/ampra/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Pragmatics; Semantics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2012 

Meeting Description:

1st International Pragmatics Conference of the Americas and the 5th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics 
October 19-21, 2012
University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC, USA

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 parallel sessions will be held on the following topics:

(i) Pragmatic theories: post- and neo-Gricean approaches, relevance theory, theory of mind, meaning, role of context, semantics-pragmatics interface, explicature, implicature, speech act theory, presuppositions, im/politeness, experimental pragmatics, cognitive pragmatics etc.
(ii) 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' language use, intercultural misunderstandings, effect of dual language and multilingual systems on the development and use of pragmatic skills, language of aggression and conflict, language of oppression, gendered language, etc.
(iii) Applications: usage and corpus-based approaches, pragmatic competence, teachability and learnability of pragmatic skills, pragmatic variations within one language and across languages, code-switching and -mixing, developmental pragmatics, etc.

Conference website: http://clas-pages.uncc.edu/ampra/  
Email address for inquires: AmPra12 at gmail.com

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Confirmed Plenary Speakers:

Laurence Horn (Yale University)
Kasia Jaszczolt (Cambridge University)
Istvan Kecskes (State University of New York, Albany)
Robin Lakoff (University of California, Berkeley)
John Perry (Stanford University)

Conference Fee (includes coffee breaks):

Regular registration: $180 
Early bird registration (before June 30, 2012): $150
Students (with valid I.D.): $80

Venue:

University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Center City Building
http://centercity.uncc.edu/

Sponsored by

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Department of English (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Intercultural Pragmatics Journal (Mouton de Gruyter)

Registration:

See webpage for details

Accommodation:

See webpage for details 

Call for Papers:

Abstracts (max. 300 words) are invited for papers and panels on any topic relevant to the fields of pragmatics and intercultural communication.

On-line submission is at http://ampra.uncc.edu or as an email attachment to AmPra12 at gmail.com.

Abstract deadline: April 15, 2012
Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2012

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 to AmPra12 at gmail.com. The deadline for panels is the same as for papers: April 15, 2012.

Publication:

Three volumes of selected papers (theories; applications; intercultural aspects): Mouton de Gruyter, John Benjamins, and Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Co-chairs:

Pilar G. Blitvich (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Istvan Kecskes (State University of New York at Albany)

Secretary:

Brittany Stone (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

Organizing Committee:

Boyd Davis (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Ron Lunsford (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Ralf Thiede (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Deborah Bosley (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Concepcion Godev (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Elizabeth Miller (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Becky Roeder (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Ashlyn Williams (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Abby M. Dobs (Penn State University)
Katie Ledford (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Julie Amick (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

Scientific Committee:

Barbara Abbott 	(Michigan State University)
Anne Barron (University of Lüneburg)
Anne Bezuidenhout (University of South Carolina, Columbia)
Adriana Bolívar 	(Central University of Venezuela)   
Patricia Bou-Franch (Universitat de Valencia)
Richard Brecht (CASL, University of Maryland)
Robin K. Burk (Battelle Corporation)
Noel Burton-Roberts (Newcastle University)
Alessandro Capone (University of Palermo)
Carmen Curco (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Dan Davidson (Bryn Mawr College)
Wayne Davis (Georgetown University)
Susan Ehrlich (York University, Toronto)
Bruce Fraser (Boston University)
Anita Fetzer (University of Würzburg)
Susan Gal (University of Chicago)
Ray Gibbs (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Michael Haugh (Griffith University, Brisbane)
Gabriele Kasper (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
Silvia Kaul de Marlangeon (National University of Río Cuarto, Argentina)
Mohammad Hossein Keshavarz 	(Teacher Training University, Tehran)
Dale Koike (University of Texas, Austin)
Kepa Korta (Universidad del Pais Vasco)
Maxim Kronhaus (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow)
Juana Marin-Arrese (Universidad Complutense, Madrid)
Jacob Mey (University of Southern Denmark)
Jacques Moeschler (University of Geneva)
Enikö Nemeth (University of Szeged)
María Laura Pardo (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Lluis Payrató (Universitat de Barcelona)
Ana Cristina Pelosi de Macedo (Federal University of Ceara, Brazil)
Jesús Romero-Trillo (Autonomous University of Madrid)
Sükriye Ruhi (Middle East Technical University, Ankara)
Leonel Ruiz-Miyares (Centro de Linguística Aplicada, Santiago de Cuba)
Louis de Saussure (Université de Neuchâtel)
Jiang Wangqi (Peking University, Beijing)
Anna Wierzbicka (Australian National University)
Mary Wildner-Bassett (University of Arizona)
Deirdre Wilson (University of London)
Andre Wlodarczyk (University of Paris, Sorbonne)

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