28.5024, Calls: Cog Sci, Disc Analysis, Historical Ling, Lang Acquisition, Pragmatics/USA

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Subject: 28.5024, Calls: Cog Sci, Disc Analysis, Historical Ling, Lang Acquisition, Pragmatics/USA

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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 22:06:16
From: ZHIQI GONG [zgong at albany.edu]
Subject: 4th International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association

Full Title: 4th International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association 
Short Title: AMPRA-4 

Date: 01-Nov-2018 - 03-Nov-2018
Location: Albany, NY, USA 
Contact Person: Monika Kirner-Ludwig
Meeting Email: ampra4albany at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.albany.edu/ampra/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis; Historical Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2018 

Meeting Description:

The American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA) comprises the countries of North,
Central, and South America, and the Caribbean. AMPRA supports interaction and
scholarly debate with particular regard to the linguistic, cognitive,
historical, social, inter-cultural and inter-language paradigms of pragmatics.

The goal of AMPRA-4 is to promote both theoretical and applied research in
pragmatics, and bring together scholars who are interested in different
sub-fields of pragmatics.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:  

Betty Birner (Northern Illinois University, USA) 
Ira Noveck (Institut des Sciences Cognitives – Marc Jeannerod, Paris, France) 
Jason Stanley (Yale University, USA) 

Executive Members of the Organizing Committee: 

Monika Kirner-Ludwig (Chair of Organizing Committee, University at Albany,
State University of New York) 
Alison Olin (Executive Secretary of Organizing Committee, University at
Albany, State University of New York) 
Anne Bezuidenhout (AMPRA Executive Secretary, University of South Carolina) 
Istvan Kecskes (AMPRA President, University at Albany, State University of New
York) 
Lindy Comstock (Head of AMPRA Graduate Student Committee, UCLA) 
Zhiqi Gong (Doctoral Student, University at Albany, State University of New
York) 

Email of the chair of the AMPRA4 OC: mkirner-ludwig at albany.edu 

Conference fee: 

Regular registration: $250 (before September 15, 2018) 
Early bird registration (before June 1, 2018): $210 
Students (with valid I.D.): $100 
Conference fee covers attendance to all sessions, lunches and coffee/tea
breaks during the conference, welcome reception, conference materials and kit.
The conference dinner is an additional $45, payable together with the
registration fee. 

AMPRA membership: 

Prospective participants are not required to be AMPRA members. However, if the
abstract is accepted for presentation and the successful submitter wishes to
participate at the conference, s/he must be a member of AMPRA. The membership
fee is $50 for non-students, and $30 for students. Membership fees can be paid
through the AMPRA website: https://americanpragmaticsassociation.org/ 
If a participant wishes to attend the conference without giving a
paper/poster, it is not necessary for him/her to be(come) an AMPRA member.
3-day guest passes can be purchased online prior to the conference for $100.
This fee covers attendance to all sessions, lunches and coffee/tea breaks
during the conference. 

For more information about the conference, please contact us at
ampra4albany at gmail.com or visit the AMPRA website:
https://americanpragmaticsassociation.org/ or conference website:
http://www.albany.edu/ampra/

2nd Call for Papers:

The goal of this conference is to promote both theoretical and applied
research in pragmatics, and to bring together scholars who are interested in
different subfields of pragmatics (philosophical, linguistic, cognitive,
social, intercultural, interlanguage, etc.). The four main topical strands of
the conference are as follows: 

i) Pragmatics theories: neo-Gricean approaches, relevance theory, theory of
mind, meaning, role of context, common ground, semantics-pragmatics interface,
explicature, implicature, speech act theory, presuppositions,
grammaticalization, im/politeness, etc. 

ii) Experimental pragmatics: models of language and meaning, experimental
techniques, scalar implicatures, reference resolution, interpretation of
figurative language, etc. 

iii) Intercultural, cross-cultural and societal aspects of pragmatics:
research involving more than one language and culture, or varieties of one
language, intercultural pragmatics, interlanguage pragmatics, variational
pragmatics, social pragmatics, lingua franca, computer-mediated communication
(CMC), bilinguals’ and heritage speakers’ language use, intercultural
misunderstandings, effect of dual language and multilingual systems on the
development and use of pragmatic skills, language of aggression and conflict,
etc. 

iv) Applications: usage and corpus-based approaches, pragmatic competence,
teachability and learnability of pragmatic skills, pragmatic variations within
one language and across languages, developmental pragmatics, cyber pragmatics,
etc. 

Abstract Submission: 

Abstracts must be 250-400 words max. in length (depending on format of
presentation, including title, excluding references). Submissions are limited
to one individual and one joint abstract per person. Abstracts & proposals for
all presentation formats must be submitted through EasyAbstracts
(http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/ampra2018). The system opens on October 1,
2017. 
When submitting the abstract or proposal, please specify your preference of
format as well as the strand you would preferably like to be considered for. 

Presentation Formats: 

1) Panels: Panel organizers are expected to send their proposal (max. 400
words) with a list of possible participants to the conference committee. Panel
sessions will be scheduled for no more than two time-slots (2x90 minutes). 
2) Roundtables: Roundtable organizers can invite up to six scholars to discuss
one or more issues in any subfield of pragmatics. Contributions to the
roundtable can be in different formats such as short debate-starters,
opinion-summaries, questions, etc. 
3) ‘Traditional’ Presentations: Papers submitted for this format must be
research papers that present the results of a research project. Accepted
papers will get 30 minutes for presentation, including discussion time. 
4) Short Presentations: Papers submitted for this format must be statement
papers, work-in progress papers or opinion papers. Accepted papers will get 20
minutes for presentation, including discussion time. 
5) Poster Presentations: A poster presentation is regarded as an advertisement
of an on-going project. It combines text and graphics to present the project
in a way that is visually interesting and accessible. 

Abstract submission for all formats: 
Deadline: February 15, 2018 
Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2018 

For more information about the conference, please contact us at
ampra4albany at gmail.com or visit the AMPRA website:
https://americanpragmaticsassociation.org/ or conference website:
http://www.albany.edu/ampra/

Graduate Student Travel Award:

AMPRA will offer seven travel awards to support conference travel ($400.00 USD
each) for graduate students. For more information, please visit
http://www.albany.edu/ampra/graduate-student-travel-awards.php

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