34.2979, Calls: 6th Biennial American Pragmatics Association Conference

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Subject: 34.2979, Calls: 6th Biennial American Pragmatics Association Conference

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Date: 11-Oct-2023
From: Anne Bezuidenhout [anne1 at sc.edu]
Subject: 6th Biennial American Pragmatics Association Conference


Full Title: 6th biennial American Pragmatics Association confernce
Short Title: AMPRA-6

Date: 27-Sep-2024 - 29-Sep-2024
Location: St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
Contact Person: Camilla Vasquez
Meeting Email: ampra6conf at gmail.com
Web Site: https://ampra-6.org/

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2024

Meeting Description:

The four main topical strands of the conference are as follows:

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

(ii) Experimental pragmatics: models of language and meaning,
experimental techniques, scalar implicatures, reference resolution,
interpretation of figurative language, etc.

(iii) Intercultural, cross-cultural and societal aspects of
pragmatics: research involving more than one language and culture, or
varieties of one language, intercultural pragmatics, interlanguage
pragmatics, variational pragmatics, social pragmatics, lingua franca,
computer-mediated communication (CMC), bilinguals' and heritage
speakers' language use, etc.

(iv) Applications: pragmatic competence, teachability and learnability
of pragmatic skills, developmental pragmatics, forensic pragmatics,
interactional pragmatics, political and legal communication, language
of aggression and conflict, etc.

Call for Papers:

Abstracts must be 300 words max. in length (including references).
Titles should be no more than 15 words. Submissions are limited to one
individual and one joint abstract per person. Abstracts must be
submitted online through the conference's website (ampra-6.org).

The system will be open and ready to receive abstracts starting on
November 15, 2023.

When submitting the abstract, please specify your preference for which
strand (i, ii, iii, iv) you would like to be considered. Accepted
papers will get 20 minutes for presentation time, followed by 10
minutes for Q & A.

Deadline: February 15, 2024

Notification of Acceptance: Abstracts submitted will receive a
notification by May 1, 2024 and will be able to take advantage of the
early bird registration rates immediately.



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