30.3618, Calls: Pragmatics/Spain

Wed Sep 25 08:25:33 UTC 2019

LINGUIST List: Vol-30-3618. Wed Sep 25 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.3618, Calls: Pragmatics/Spain

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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 04:24:42
From: MANUEL PADILLA CRUZ [mpadillacruz at us.es]
Subject: IX International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics

Full Title: IX International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics 
Short Title: EPICS IX 

Date: 06-May-2020 - 08-May-2020
Location: Seville, Spain 
Contact Person: Manuel Padilla Cruz
Meeting Email: mpadillacruz at us.es

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 01-Dec-2019 

Meeting Description:

EPICS IX is an International Conference dedicated to analysing and discussing
possible (new) interactions between intercultural, cognitive and social
approaches in pragmatics with a view to looking into communication in the 21st
century. In line with this, the conference theme will be “Communication in the
21st Century: Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics”.

Call for Papers:

Plenary Speakers:

- Patricia Bou Franch, University of Valencia.
- Marina Terkourafi, University of Leiden. 
- Jef Verschueren, University of Antwerp.

1. PRESENTATION TYPES
We welcome original papers, written in English:

A) Individual Oral Presentations
20 min + 10 min for discussion. 

B) Themed Panels
Thematically-related papers (20 min + 10 min for discussion). Proposals must
also include a chair.

C) Posters
• No larger than 118,9 x 84,1 cm (A0).
• Printed in colour or in black and white.
• There will not be printing facilities at the venue.

2. TOPICS
Topics for presentations may be, but are not limited to:

* New or recent interactions between different frameworks or approaches in
pragmatics.
* Sociocultural and cognitive factors affecting production and comprehension
of language/discourse in face-to-face or mediated (by telephone, computer,
etc.) communication in a variety of genres (included social networks like
Facebook, Twitter, etc.) and settings (classroom, parliaments, service
encounters, etc.).
* Impact of culture and context on pragmatic processes in comprehension.
* New developments, interactions or challenges in pragmatic analyses of:
- Morphology, lexicon, syntax and/or prosody.
- Procedural meaning.
- Types of discourse (professional, academic, political, religious, humorous,
etc.).
- (Im)Politeness and relational work in diverse settings and communication
modes.
- Language aggression and conflict.
- Expression and processing of emotions.
- Projection and understanding of identity.
- Figures of speech (irony, metaphor, hyperbole, etc.).
- Interlanguage pragmatic development.
- Translation and interpreting. 
- Online vs. offline communication and discourse.
* Experimental testing.
* Instructional pragmatics and methodological proposals for pragmatics
teaching.

3. SUBMISSIONS
Proposals must be sent as email attachments to the following email addresses:
epics at upo.es and mpadillacruz at us.es 
Please include the following information:

A) Oral Presentations and Posters
- A Word/pdf file containing an anonymised one-page abstract no longer than
350 words. 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 (from among those in the list of topics above)
- Up to five keywords
- Audio-visual equipment required (computer, video, etc.)
- E-mail address(es)
- Postal address(es)
- If the paper or poster cannot be presented on a particular day of the
conference.

B) Themed Panels
In addition to the two files containing the abstract and the information
alluded to above for each presentation, panel proposals must also include a
one-page abstract no longer than 350 words for the whole panel.

4. DATES
Deadline for receipt of abstracts is 1 December 2019. Proposals will be
peer-reviewed and notification of acceptance will be sent by 15 January 2020. 

5. CONFERENCE FEES

Until January 30th, 2020:
- Attendants: EUR 125 
- Speakers: EUR 180 
>From January 30, onwards
- Attendants: EUR 150
- Speakers: EUR 210

The fees are for the full conference (6nd-8th May) and include the conference
pack, coffee breaks and lunches, but not the conference dinner.

6. CONFERENCE WEBSITE

http://eventos.upo.es/event_detail/37759/detail/9th-international-symposium-on
-intercultural-cognitive-and-social-pragmatics-epics-ix.html

Registration is now open for attendants:
http://eventos.upo.es/event_detail/37759/sections/20827/on-line-registration-f
orm.html

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