Pragma99

[Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot]

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                      Call for Papers
 
                              PRAGMA99
 
                 International Pragmatics Conference on
                     PRAGMATICS AND NEGOTIATION
                           June 13-16, 1999
        Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem
                        Tel Aviv and Jerusalem
                                Israel
 
The main theme of this conference is the pragmatics of negotiation,
interpreted in a very broad sense.  Interlocutors engage in negotiations
about every aspect of their interaction -  such as floor access and topic
selection, contextual assumptions, conversational goals, and the
(mis)interpretation and repair of their messages. Topics such as
cross-cultural and cross-gender (mis)communications, conversational
procedures in disputes and collaborations, argumentation practices, and
effects of assumptions and goals on the negotiating strategies of
interlocutors are of special interest for this conference.
 
The conference will be interdisciplinary, bringing together pragmaticists,
linguists, philosophers, anthropologists, sociologists and political
scientists. We are soliciting papers on all issues relevant to the theme
of the conference, as well as papers in other areas of pragmatics and
dialogue analysis.
 
The conference will include plenary addresses, regular session lectures,
and organized panels around any of the relevant topics. Among the plenary
speakers: Elinor Ochs (UCLA), Itamar Rabinovitch (Tel Aviv University),
Emanual Schegloff (UCLA), Thomas Schelling (University of Maryland),
Deborah Schiffrin (Georgetown University), Deborah Tannen (Georgetown
University), Ruth Wodak (University of Vienna).
 
Presentation of regular session lectures is 30 minutes long, with a
subsequent discussion of 10 minutes. Panels take the form of a series of
closely related lectures on a specific topic, which may or may not be
directly related to the special topic of the conference. They may consist
of one, two or three units of 120 minutes.  Within each panel unit a
maximum of four 20-minute presentations are given consecutively, followed
by a minimum of 30 minutes of discussion (either devoted entirely to an
open discussion, or taken up in part by comments by a discussant or
discussants). Panels are composed of contributions attracted by panel
organizers, combined with individually submitted papers when judged
appropriate by the Program Committee in consultation with the panel
organizers. Typically, written versions or extensive outlines of all panel
contributions should be available before the conference to facilitate
discussion.
 
 
SUBMISSIONS
Abstracts for papers and panels should be submitted in the following
format:
1. For papers - five copies of an anonymous abstract (up to 300 words).
2. For panels - a preliminary proposal of one page, detailing title, area
of interest, name of organizer(s) and invited participants to be sent by
August 1, 1998. Organizers of approved panels will then be invited to
submit a full set of abstracts, including: a. a brief description of the
topic area,  b. a list of participants (with full details, see below), c.
abstracts by each of the participants by November 1, 1998.
3. In all cases, a page stating: a. title, b. audiovisual/computer
request, and c. for each author: I. Full name and affiliation; II. Current
address; III. E-mail address; IV. Fax number.
 
Deadline for submission of abstracts: Nov. 1, 1998.  Abstracts may be sent
by hard copy, disk, or e-mail to Pragma99, Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv
University, Tel Aviv 69978, ISRAEL. E-mail: pragma99 at post.tau.ac.il
Date of notification: March 1, 1999.
 
PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Mira Ariel, Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot, Jonathan Berg,
Anat Biletzki, Shoshana Blum-Kulka, Marcelo Dascal, Nomi Erteschik-Shir,
Tamar Katriel, Ruth Manor,  George-Elia Sarfati, Elda Weizman, Yael Ziv.
 
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                PRAGMA99 REGISTRATION FORM
 
Please send the following information, accompanied by cheque payable to
Tel-Aviv University in the amount of US$75 if paid before November 1,
1998, otherwise US$100, to
 
        Pragma99
        Faculty of Humanities
        Tel Aviv University
        Tel Aviv 69978, ISRAEL
 
 
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Those wishing to present a paper should follow the instructions above.
Hotel information will be provided after registration.
The International Association for Dialogue Analysis is co-sponsoring a
part of our conference, which will be devoted to "Negotiation as a
Dialogic Concept." For further information, contact Edda Weigand (e-mail:
weigand at uni-muenster.de).
 
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