36.2090, Confs: 4th International Conference on Discourse Pragmatics (Online)

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Date: 07-Jul-2025
From: Lei Zhang [dispragmatics at foxmail.com]
Subject: 4th International Conference on Discourse Pragmatics


4th International Conference on Discourse Pragmatics
Short Title: ICDP-4
Theme: Discourse Pragmatics, Online Interaction, and the Age of AI

Date: 17-Oct-2025 - 19-Oct-2025
Location: Online
Meeting URL: http://ywxy.zisu.edu.cn/info/1055/6835.htm

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Discourse
Analysis; Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics

Submission Deadline: 08-Aug-2025

We are delighted to announce that the 4th International Conference on
Discourse Pragmatics will take place online from October 17 to 19,
2025. This year’s theme, “Discourse Pragmatics, Online Interaction,
and the Age of AI,” responds to the urgent need to understand how
digital technologies and algorithmic mediation are reshaping the
conditions of human communication in profound ways.
As digital platforms, social media, and AI-driven interfaces become
central to everyday interaction, questions of how meaning is
constructed, negotiated, or disrupted have taken on renewed
significance. These changes not only challenge traditional pragmatic
categories such as deixis, face, implicature, (im)politeness, and
speech acts, but also compel us to rethink broader concepts such as
(inter)subjectivity, agency, and communicative normativity in digital
environments.
This conference provides a forum for critically engaging with these
developments from a variety of perspectives within and beyond
discourse pragmatics. We invite scholars to explore emerging phenomena
in online interaction and human-machine communication, and to reflect
on how theories and methods in discourse pragmatics can be extended,
reworked, or reimagined in response to technological transformation.
This conference will be hosted by Zhejiang International Studies
University (ZISU), located in Hangzhou, China, co-organized by the
School of English Studies, ZISU, the Institute of Discourse
Pragmatics, ZISU, and the School of Languages and Cultures, The
University of Queensland. We are looking forward to your participation
in this great event.
This conference aims to explore how discourse pragmatics can address
the dynamic transformations of communication in the digital and
algorithmic age. Key areas of interest include:
 - Pragmatic meaning-making in digital interaction (e.g., livestreams,
chats, platform discourse)
 - Discourse pragmatics in human-AI communication
 - (Im)politeness, emotion, stance, morality and identity in online
discourse
 - Cross-cultural and multilingual pragmatic variation in digital
contexts
 - Methodological and theoretical challenges to discourse pragmatics
posed by new media and AI
 - Broader cognitive, ethical, social, or philosophical reflections on
discourse meaning in mediated interaction
While rooted in the core concerns of discourse pragmatics, the
conference also encourages interdisciplinary approaches—from
philosophy, AI studies, media and communication, to cognitive
science—where such perspectives enrich our understanding of how
language operates in technologically mediated spaces.
Conference Host
Zhejiang International Studies University (ZISU)
Conference Organizers:
School of English Studies, ZISU
Institute of Discourse Pragmatics, ZISU
The School of Languages and Cultures, The University of Queensland
Dates and Venues:
Dates: 17-19 October 2025
Venues: Zoom; Tencent/VooV Meeting (online)
Registration Fees: Free of charge
Conference Language: English
Abstract Submission:
1.All abstracts should be prepared in English.
2.To submit an abstract, please send a document of no more than 300
words (including keywords and references) to
dispragmatics at foxmail.com. The deadline for submission is 8 August
2025.
3.To submit your abstract, please ensure that it is prepared in the MS
Word format and the file is named "full name + paper title."
Additionally, please include a separate page that lists all individual
authors' names, affiliations, professional titles, email addresses,
and any other relevant information.
Notification of Abstract Acceptance: 20 August 2025
Conference Email: dispragmatics at foxmail.com (Ms. Zhang)
Social Media:
To stay informed about the conference, please follow us on X/Twitter
(iPragmatics), WeChat (internet_pragmatics), and the School of English
Studies, ZISU website (http://ywxy.zisu.edu.cn). Thank you for your
attention to this conference, and we look forward to seeing you in
Virtual Hangzhou, China.



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