28.2765, Calls: Pragmatics/Spain

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Subject: 28.2765, Calls: Pragmatics/Spain

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Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 11:52:56
From: Manuel Padilla Cruz [mpadillacruz at us.es]
Subject: 8th International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics

 
Full Title: 8th International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics 
Short Title: EPICS VIII 

Date: 02-May-2018 - 04-May-2018
Location: SEVILLE, Spain 
Contact Person: Manuel Padilla Cruz
Meeting Email: mpadillacruz at us.es

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 01-Dec-2017 

Meeting Description:

International conference dedicated to intercultural, cognitive and social
pragmatics. The conference theme is ''Communication, culture and cognition''

The 8th International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social
Pragmatics (EPICS VIII) will be held on 2nd-4th May 2018, at the School of
Philology of the University of Seville. The conference theme will be
“Communication, culture and cognition”. The following scholars have agreed to
be keynote speakers:

- Penelope Brown, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
- Maria Sifianou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Dan Sperber, Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS & Central European University


Call for Papers: 
 
Presentation Types:
Papers must be written in English and can be made in any of the following
types:

Individual oral presentations:
20 minutes + 10 minutes for questions and discussion.

Themed panels:
These must contain a number of thematically-related papers, each of which must
be 20 minutes + 10 minutes for questions and discussion. Proposals for panels
should also include a chair.

Posters:
- Measures: 118,9 x 84,1 cm (A0).
- Posters may be printed in colour or in black and white.
- Presenters must bring a printed copy of their poster to the conference.
There will not be printing facilities at the venue.

Topics:
Topics are not exclusively limited to:
- (Socio)Cultural and cognitive factors affecting production and comprehension
of language/discourse in face-to-face or mediated communication in a variety
of genres and settings.
- Culture, context and pragmatic processes in comprehension
- Culture, context and morphology, lexicon, syntax and/or prosody
- Culture, context and figures of speech
- Culture, context and types of discourse (professional, political, humorous,
etc.)
- (Socio)Cultural and cognitive factors determining the expression and
processing of emotions
- (Socio)Cultural and cognitive factors affecting the projection and
understanding of identity
- Believing, culture and epistemic vigilance
- (Socio)Cultural and cognitive factors intervening in (im)politeness and
relational work in diverse settings and communication modes
- (Socio)Cultural and cognitive factors in language aggression and conflict
- Online vs. offline communication and discourse
- (Socio)Cultural and cognitive factors in face-to-face or mediated service
encounters
- (Socio)Cultural and cognitive factors in evaluations of service encounters
and customer satisfaction
- Cultural and cognitive factors affecting translation and interpreting
- Experimental testing

Submissions:
Proposals must be sent to the following email address: epics at upo.es
Submissions must include the following information:

Oral presentations and posters:
- A Word/pdf file containing an anonymised one-page abstract no longer than
350 words. Please name this file “Abstract_Surname”.
- A Word/pdf file, named “Data_Surname”, containing the following information:

- Author’s/Authors’ name(s) and affiliation(s)
- Title of paper
- Topic(s) addressed
- Audio-visual equipment required
- E-mail address(es)
- Postal address(es)

Themed panels:
In addition to the two files containing the abstract and information for each
presentation, panel proposals must also include a one-page abstract no longer
than 350 words for the whole panel.
  
Conference Fees:

Until January 30th, 2018: 
- Attendants: EUR 125
- Speakers: EUR 180
>From January 30th, onwards:
- Attendants: EUR 150
- Speakers: EUR 210

The fees include the conference pack, coffee breaks and lunches.

Organising Committee:
Manuel Padilla Cruz
Reyes Gómez Morón
Lucía  Fernández Amaya
María de la O Hernández López
Daniel Calvo Carmona 
Bethany Aull




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