26.2093, Calls: Pragmatics/Japan

Mon Apr 20 19:57:23 UTC 2015

LINGUIST List: Vol-26-2093. Mon Apr 20 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.2093, Calls: Pragmatics/Japan

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Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 15:56:58
From: Eiichi Yamamoto [yamamoto at kansai-u.ac.jp]
Subject: 18th Annual Conference of Pragmatics Society of Japan

Full Title: 18th Annual Conference of Pragmatics Society of Japan 
Short Title: 18th PSJ Conference 

Date: 05-Dec-2015 - 06-Dec-2015
Location: Nagoya, Japan 
Contact Person: Masashi Okamoto
Meeting Email: presentation at pragmatics.gr.jp
Web Site: http://www.pragmatics.gr.jp/conference_e.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 31-Jul-2015 

Meeting Description:

We are pleased to announce that the 18h Annual Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan will be held on December 5 and 6, 2015 at Nagoya University in Nagoya, Japan. The conference aims at bringing together students and researchers working in this growing field of pragmatics and its related areas.

For more information visit the conference website:

http://www.pragmatics.gr.jp/conference_e.html

Call for Papers:

PSJ welcomes presentations concerning pragmatic analyses from a variety of fields, including historical pragmatics, cognitive pragmatics, the interface between pragmatics and other disciplines, interlanguage pragmatics, social pragmatics, comparative or contrastive pragmatics studies.

Presentation Type:

- Lecture Presentation: Lectures 25 minutes + QA 10 minutes
- Poster Presentation: 1 hour 40 minutes
- Workshop: 1 hour 40 minutes (Organization only)

Two languages: Japanese or English

Guidelines for Abstract Submission:

1. Deadline for submitting abstracts: July 31, 2015

2. Online submission page: EasyChair for PSJ 2015 (EasyChair site to be made avaialbe soon.)

3. Submission of Abstracts:

Abstracts are invited for paper presentations on any aspect of pragmatic analysis from a variety of fields, including historical pragmatics, cognitive pragmatics, the interface between pragmatics and other disciplines, interlanguage pragmatics, social pragmatics, comparative or contrastive pragmatics studies.

Abstracts must be in English and must be submitted electronically on our online submission page, as attachment files in MS Word format (*.doc, or *docx) and, if possible, in PDF format (*.pdf).

Abstracts should be approximately 500 words in length, not including references, figures, tables, and graphs. Abstracts are accepted in the following categories:

- Lecture presentation
- Poster presentation
- Workshop

Also note that the conference office only accepts submissions from members of the Society. The first author should be a member in the case of a group presentation. For membership, please contact the business office, secretary[at]pragmatics.gr.jp.

4. Notification of the selection: After October 10

5. Contact person: Email: presentation[at]pragmatics.gr.jp (Masashi Okamoto)

Online Submission Page:

The page ‘EasyChair for PSJ2015’ can be made available soon.

How to Create EasyChair Account:

To use EasyChair, you must first create an account.

1. Access ‘EasyChair for PSJ2015’ then click ‘sign up for an account’.
2. Step 1: Captcha.
3. Step 2: Fill out the following fields: First name, Last name, Email. Then click ‘Continue’.
4. ‘Account Application Received’ will appear.
5. You will receive an email containing a URL.
6. When you receive the email, click the URL. Please input an account name and password, then click ‘Create my account’.
7. Your account will be created.

How to Submit at EasyChair:

1. Access EasyChair for PSJ2015 and sign in to access your account.
2. Click ‘New Submission’.
3. Fill out the following fields:

Author
Title
Abstract
Type of presentation (Lecture presentation/Poster presentation/Workshop)
Presentation language (Japanese/English)
Topic area (Choose one or two of the following):

- Deixis and reference
- Pragmatic inference
- Speech acts
- Politeness and socio-linguistic approaches
- Cognitive linguistic approaches
- Relevance theory
- Pragmatics and grammar
- Pragmatics and language education
- Discourse analytic approaches
- Conversation analysis, ethnomethodology
- Historical pragmatics
- Other

4. Upload paper: Papers can only be submitted as Word or pdf files.
5. Click ‘Submit’.

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