FINAL CALL: 6th Lodz Symposium: New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics (NDLP2012), 26-28 May 2012

[Piotr Cap]

(apologies for cross-posting)


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FINAL CALL

6th Lodz Symposium
New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics (NDLP2012)

University of Łódź, Poland
Chair of Pragmatics
Łódź, 26-28 May 2012
http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/pragmatics/ndlp2012


CALL FOR PAPERS

This
 10th anniversary edition of the NDLP conference series aims to respond 
to a surge of new research in pragmatics, with a view to bringing 
together the novel,
 empirically, experimentally and clinically based models, and classical 
topics/frameworks such as Gricean pragmatics, speech act and 
presupposition theory. We encourage papers (re-)examining the 
semantics-pragmatics boundary, which has been sometimes blurred by the 
confrontation of the new and the traditional frameworks. Proposals are 
welcome at the intersection of philosophy of language and pragmatics 
dealing with theoretical, methodological and definitional issues, as 
well as issues of interdisciplinarity in pragmatic investigation.

While
 we specially encourage presentations of theoretical approaches which 
have a basis in empirical studies, or allow for experimentally testable 
predictions, the conference continues to be open to all kinds of 
pragmatics oriented research recognizing pragmatics as a functional (i. 
e. cognitive, social and cultural) perspective on language and 
communication. This applies to functional studies involving multiple and
 heterogeneous territories: everyday discourse, media, education, 
political and professional settings, problems of linguistic construction
 and maintenance of identity, pragmatic genres, issues of 
multilingualism and linguistic pluralism, pragmatic aspects of 
translation, pragmatic awareness in foreign language teaching, and more.

Papers will be allocated 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. The language of the conference is English.

Abstracts of no more than 350 words (excluding references) should be sent by email as a Word attachment to strus_pl at yahoo.com (Prof. Piotr Cap, Conference Head) by 15 January 2012. Please include name, affiliation, email address and paper title in the 
body of the email.  All abstracts will be accepted subject to review by 
an international Scientific Committee. Notification of acceptance decisions will be communicated via email by 31 January 2012. 

INVITED SPEAKERS

The following scholars have accepted to address the conference as keynote and plenary speakers:

Keynote lecture:
John R.SEARLE (University of California at Berkeley, USA)

Plenary lectures:
Jonathan CULPEPER (Lancaster University, UK)
Anita FETZER (University of Wuerzburg, Germany)
Istvan KECSKES (State University of New York at Albany, USA)
Stephen C. LEVINSON (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics at Nijmegen, the Netherlands)
Savas L. TSOHATZIDIS (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Daniel VANDERVEKEN (University of Quebec at Trois-Rivieres, Canada)

SPECIAL EVENT

The
 conference will be preceded by the conferral of the University of Łódź 
honoris causa degree on John Searle. The honoris causa ceremony is 
scheduled for 25 May 2012. All conference participants are welcome to attend. The venue 
of the ceremony will be announced on the conference website.

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Kent
Bach (San Francisco State University) 
Emma
Borg (University of Reading)
Robyn
Carston (University College London)
Louise
Cummings (Nottingham Trent University)
Marcelo Dascal (Tel Aviv University)

Bruce
Fraser (Boston University)
Raymond
W. Gibbs (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Rachel
Giora (Tel Aviv University)
Andreas
H. Jucker (University of Zurich)
Steven
Pinker (Harvard University)
Francois
Recanati (Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris)
Piotr
Stalmaszczyk (University of Łódź)Jef Verschueren (University of Antwerp)

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Prof. zw. dr hab. Piotr Cap
Chair of Pragmatics (Head)
Institute of English, University of Lodz
Al.Kosciuszki 65, 90-514 Lodz, POLAND
tel/fax +48 42 6655220
http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/pragmatics/faculty/pcap
IRP journal link: http://www.brill.nl/irp
NDLP2012 conference link: http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/pragmatics/ndlp2012
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