Call for papers - I AMPRA -- V ICUP Conference

[Pilar Garces Blitvich]

1st International Pragmatics Conference of the Americas and the 5th 
International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics 

 
October 19-21, 2012, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
 
The goal of the joint conference is to promote both theoretical and applied 
research in pragmatics, and bring together scholars who are interested in 
different subfields of pragmatics (philosophical, linguistic, cognitive, social, 
intercultural, interlanguage, etc.). Three parallel sessions will be held on the 
following topics:
 
(i)                 Pragmatics theories: neo-Gricean approaches, relevance 
theory, theory of mind, meaning, role of context, semantics-pragmatics 
interface, explicature, implicature, speech act theory, presuppositions, 
im/politeness, experimental pragmatics, etc.
(ii)               Intercultural, cross-cultural an societal aspects of 
pragmatics: research involving more than one language and culture or varieties 
of one language, lingua franca, technologically mediated communication, 
bilinguals’ language use, intercultural misunderstandings, effect of dual 
language and multilingual systems on the development and use of pragmatic 
skills, etc.
(iii)             Applications: usage and corpus-based approaches, pragmatic 
competence, teachability and learnability of pragmatic skills, pragmatic 
variations within one language and across languages, developmental pragmatics, 
etc.
 
Conference website
http://clas-pages.uncc.edu/ampra/  (under development; further information will 
be added when available)
 
Email address for inquires
AmPra12 at gmail.com
 
Confirmed plenary speakers 
Laurence Horn (Yale University)
Kasia Jaszczolt (University of Cambridge)
Istvan Kecskes (State University of New York, Albany)
Robin Lakoff (University of California, Berkeley)
John Perry (Stanford University)
 
Co-chairsPilar Garcés Blitvich  (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Istvan Kecskes (State University of New York at Albany)
 
Secretary
Brittany Stone    (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
 
Organizing committee
Boyd Davis      (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Ron Lunsford  (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Ralf Thiede      (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Deborah Bosley (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Elizabeth Miller  (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Becky Roeder  (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Ashlyn Williams (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Abby M. Dobs(Penn State University)
Katie Ledford  (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
 
Sponsored by
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (UNC Charlotte)
Department of English (UNC Charlotte)
Intercultural Pragmatics Journal (Mouton de Gruyter)
 
 
Scientific committee 
Barbara Abbott (Michigan State University)
Anne Barron (University of Lunenburg)
Anne Bezuidenhout (University of South Carolina at Columbia)
Adriana Bolívar (Central University of Venezuela)   
Patricia Bou-Franch (Universitat de Valencia)
Richard Brecht (CASL, University of Maryland)
Noel Burton-Roberts (Newcastle University)
Alessandro Capone (University of Palermo)
Carmen Curco (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Dan Davidson (Bryn Mawr College)
Wayne Davis (Georgetown University)
Susan Ehrlich (York University)
Bruce Fraser (Boston University)
Anita Fetzer (University of Wurzburg)
Susan Gal (University of Chicago)
Ray Gibbs (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Michael Haugh (Griffith University)
Gabriele Kasper (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
Silvia Kaul de Marlangeon (National University of Río Cuarto, Argentina)
Mohammad Hossein Keshavarz (Teacher Training University, Tehran)
Dale Koike (University of Texas, Austin)
Kepa Korta (Universidad del Pais Vasco)
Maxim Kronhaus (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow)
Juana Marin-Arrese (Universidad Complutense, Madrid)
Jacob Mey (University of Southern Denmark)
Jacques Moeschler (University of Geneva)
Eniko Nemeth (University of Szeged)
María Laura Pardo (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Lluis Payrato (Universitat de Barcelona)
Ana Cristina Pelosi de Macedo, (Federal University of Ceara, Brazil)
Jesus Romero-Trillo (Autonomous University of Madrid)
Sukriye Ruhi (Middle East Technical University, Ankara)
Leonel Ruiz-Miyares (Centro de Linguística Aplicada, Santiago de Cuba)
Louis de Saussure (Université de Neuchâtel)
Jiang Wangqi, (Peking University, Beijing)
Anna Wierzbicka (Australian National University)
Mary Wildner-Bassett (University of Arizona)
Deirdre Wilson (University of London)
Andre Wlodarczyk (University of Paris, Sorbonne)
 
 
Call for papers
Abstracts (max. 300 words) are invited for papers on any topic relevant to the 
fields of pragmatics and intercultural communication.
 
On-line submission is at
http://clas-pages.uncc.edu/ampra/
 
or 
 
as an email attachment to AmPra12 at gmail.com
 
 
Abstract deadline: 15, April 2012
Notification of acceptance: 1st June, 2012
Please, include your name, affiliation and e-mail address. Abstracts will be 
double-blind peer-reviewed, and should include sufficient details to allow 
reviewers to judge the scientific merits of the work. Paper presentations will 
be allowed 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for questions. All presentations will be 
in English.
 
Publication
Three volumes of selected papers (theories; applications; intercultural 
aspects): Mouton de Gruyter, John Benjamins, and Cambridge Scholars Publishing
 
Conference fee 
Regular registration: $180 (includes coffee breaks)
Early bird registration (before 30 June 2010): $150
Students (with valid I.D.): $80
 
Venue
Universityof North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
CenterCity Building
 
http://centercity.uncc.edu/
 
Registration
Information forthcoming
 
Accommodation
Information forthcoming
 Pilar G. Blitvich, Ph.D. | Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics 
UNC Charlotte | Department of English
9201 University City Blvd. | Charlotte, NC 28223
Phone: 704- 687 2126 | Fax: 704-687-3961
pgblitvi at uncc.edu | http://www.english.uncc.edu/blitvich.html