call for papers: EPICS I

[Reyes Gomez Moron]

FIRST SYMPOSIUM ON INTERCULTURAL, COGNITIVE AND SOCIAL PRAGMATICS
(EPICS  I)
"CURRENT ISSUES ON PRAGMATIC RESEARCH"
University of Seville (Spain)
10-12th April, 2002


CALL FOR PAPERS: EPICS I

The research group ‘Intercultural Pragmatic Studies (English-Spanish):
Pragmatic and Discourse Aspects’ of the Department of English Philology
at the University of Seville (Spain) is pleased to announce its First
Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics (EPCIS I –
“I Encuentros de Pragmatica Intercultural, Cognitiva y Social”), to be
held in April 10-12th, 2002. Since the topic of this edition will be
"Current Issues on Pragmatic Research" we would like to invite anyone
currently researching in the areas of pragmatics and discourse analysis,
from any methodological perspective or framework, to participate in
EPICS I.

SUBMISSIONS: We welcome original papers (45 minutes in length, the last
10 minutes will be devoted to discussion) on any topic in the field of
pragmatics that involves English or Spanish. Participants should submit
one-page abstract (500 words) accompanied by a step-by-step outline of
the presentation and the following information:

1. Author’s name(s) and affiliation
2. Title of paper
3. Audio-visual equipment required (VHS video, OHP, cassette)
4. E-mail address(es)
5. Postal address(es)

Electronic submissions as e-mail attachments (RTF,ASCII, HTML) are
highly encouraged. Proposals may be sent to Pilar Garces
(pilar_garces at yahoo.com), Reyes Gomez  (rgommor at dhuma.upo.es) or Manuel
Padilla (mpadilla at cica.es). Submissions by fax will not be accepted.
Those without e-mail access can send 2 printed copies of your abstract,
outline and accompanying information to:

Reyes Gomez
Departamento de Humanidades (Area de Lengua Inglesa)
Universidad Pablo de Olavide
Carretera de Utrera km.1
41013 – Seville (Spain)


DATES: Deadline for receipt of abstracts is February 1, 2002.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by February 17, 2002. The
committee will plan the programme as soon as it has selected the
successful abstracts, so please indicate on the abstracts if you cannot
present your paper on any day of the conference (April 10-12th). It is
very difficult to reschedule papers after the programme has been
planned.

We hope you will circulate this Call for Papers to your colleagues and
others in your professional network, and to any discussion groups to
which you subscribe. For more information, please address to Reyes Gomez
(rgommor at dhuma.upo.es) or Manuel Padilla (mpadilla at cica.es).We hope to
see you in April 2002, here in Seville (Spain).