26.1693, Calls: Applied Ling, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Semantics, Socioling/Croatia

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LINGUIST List: Vol-26-1693. Mon Mar 30 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.1693, Calls: Applied Ling, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Semantics, Socioling/Croatia

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Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 16:02:58
From: Jagoda Granic [jagoda.granic at gmail.com]
Subject: 7th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication

Full Title: 7th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication 
Short Title: INPRA 

Date: 10-Jun-2016 - 12-Jun-2016
Location: Split, Croatia 
Contact Person: Jagoda Granić
Meeting Email: inpra2016 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.unist.hr/interculturalpragmatics2016 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Semantics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Dec-2015 

Meeting Description:

The International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication (INPRA) is a well known biennial meeting and this would be its 7th edition. The main aim of the Conference is to bring together researchers from around the world who have diverse scientific backgrounds but share the same field of interest – pragmatics, being perceived as a cognitive, philosophical, social, and intercultural perspective on language and communication.

Numerous renowned linguists and scholars will give speeches, re-define key questions and present research findings. In particular, the Scientific Committee strongly encourages younger scholars and PhD students concerned with pragmatics to give speeches, too.

This Conference should promote connections between pragmatic theory and its application in practice. The various subfields of pragmatics and different approaches even to the same topic will provide a better understanding of intercultural communication in today’s communication-driven society. 

Parallel sessions will be held in relation to the following non-exhaustive thematic strands:

1.Pragmatics theories and theoretical perspectives (philosophical, cognitive, societal)

-Classical pragmatics (speech-acts theory, Grice and conversational implicatures)
-Contemporary pragmatics theories (relevance theory, socio-cognitive approach, etc.)
-Metapragmatics
-Pragmatic meaning, semantic-pragmatic interface, content and context
-Implicatures (neo-Gricean approaches); explicatures
-Discourse deixis
-Presuppositions 
-Speech acts: conventionality and intentionality
-Developmental experimental pragmatics 
-Formulaic language, figurative language
etc…

2.Intercultural, cross-cultural and societal aspects of pragmatic research:

-Communicating interculturality: speaking across cultures
-Lingua franca pragmatics
-Societal pragmatics, pragmemes
-Communication and cultural patterns, intercultural misunderstandings
-Sociopragmatics: interlanguage
-Language and social networks
-Understanding everyday language (speakers’ repertoires)
-(Im)politeness phenomena (intention, cultural models and context)
-Cultural dimensions of discourse
-Computer-mediated communication, media communication
-Gendered speech communities
etc…

3.Applications:

-Raising pragmatic awareness
-Pragmatic competence
-Teaching intercultural pragmatic competence, teachability and learnability of pragmatic skills
-Use of speech acts
-Usage and corpus-based approaches
-Pragmatic skills and variations across languages and cultures 
etc…

The conference is open to all other pragmatics-related topics broadly defined.

Keynote Speakers:

Wayne Davis (Georgetown University, USA)
Rachel Giora (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Laurence R. Horn (Yale University, USA)
Istvan Kecskes (State University of New York at Albany, USA)

Conference Convenors:

Jagoda Granić (University of Split, Croatia)
Istvan Kecskes (State University of New York at Albany, USA)

Conference Fees:

Early-Bird Registration (before 10 February 2016): 180 EUR
Standard Registration (before 1 April 2016): 210 EUR

Students (with valid I.D.)
Early-Bird Registration (before 10 February 2016): 110 EUR
Standard Registration (before 1 April 2016): 140 EUR

Call for Papers:

Paper and Panel Proposals

Abstracts (min. 300 and max. 350 words, excluding references) are invited both for papers and panels on any relevant pragmatic topic. Please include the word count at the bottom of the page (longer abstracts will be rejected).

Abstracts will be double-blind peer-viewed by the Scientific Committee members and should include research questions, methods, results and theoretical or practical implications. Paper will be allowed 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for questions. All presentations will be in English.

Note that one person may submit a single- or a co-authored abstract.

Abstracts (including the author’s name and affiliation, email address and paper title) should be submitted to inpra2016 at gmail.com as a Word attachment (.doc or .docx).

The deadline for abstract submission is 15 December 2015. The Scientific Committee will announce their decision on acceptance/rejection of abstracts by 20 January 2016.

Contact:

Secretary: Jelena Novaković 
E-mail: jnovak at ffst.hr
Tel: + 385 91 222 6083

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