37.781, Confs: 7th International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association (Online)

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Date: 23-Feb-2026
From: Maite Taboada [mtaboada at sfu.ca]
Subject: 7th International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association


7th International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association
Short Title: AMPRA-7

Date: 05-Nov-2026 - 07-Nov-2026
Location: Online
Meeting URL: https://www.etamu.edu/ampra7

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics

Submission Deadline: 15-Jun-2026

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 7th
International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association
(AMPRA), to be held 5-7 November 2026 online, with East Texas A&M as
virtual host. 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.).
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Andrea Beltrama (University of Delaware)
Matthew Prior (Arizona State University)
Naoko Taguchi (Northern Arizona University)
The five 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; (ii) Experimental
pragmatics: models of language and meaning, experimental techniques,
scalar implicatures, reference resolution, interpretation of
figurative language; (iii) Intercultural, cross-cultural and
socio-pragmatics: research involving more than one language and
culture, or varieties of one language, variational pragmatics,
intercultural pragmatics, digitally-mediated communication (DMC),
multimodality; (iv) Second Language Acquisition: interlanguage
pragmatics, lingua franca, bilinguals’ and heritage speakers’ language
use, pragmatic competence, teachability and learnability of pragmatic
skills, developmental pragmatics; (v) Applications: forensic
pragmatics, interactional pragmatics, political and legal
communication, language of aggression and conflict.
Abstract Submission:
Abstracts must be 300 words max. in length (including references).
Titles should be no more than 15 words.  Submissions are limited to
one individual and one joint abstract per person. Abstracts must be
submitted online through EasyAbs
(https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/AMPRA-7). When submitting
the abstract, please specify your preference for which strand (i, ii,
iii, iv, v) you would like to be considered. Accepted papers will get
20 minutes for presentation time, followed by 10 minutes for Q & A.
Deadline: June 15, 2026
Notification of Acceptance: Abstracts submitted will receive a
notification by July 31, 2026.
Conference website: https://www.etamu.edu/ampra7
Email AMPRA 7 at: ampra7conf at gmail.com
Conference Fees:
There are no conference fees. To present, authors must be current
AMPRA members.
AMPRA Membership:
To submit an abstract for consideration, 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, they must be a member of AMPRA. The membership fee,
which covers membership for a period of 24 months (2 calendar years),
is $50 for non-students, and $25 for students. If a participant wishes
to attend the conference without giving a paper, it is not necessary
for them to be(come) an AMPRA member.
More details about membership fees and a link to the payment site can
be found on the AMPRA website:
https://americanpragmaticsassociation.org
Members of the Organizing Committee: Salvatore Attardo (East Texas
A&M); Anne Bezuidenhout (U of South Carolina); Pilar Garcés-Conejos
Blitvich (U of North Carolina); Shelby Miller (East Texas A&M); Maite
Taboada (Simon Fraser U); Camilla Vásquez (U of South Florida)
AMPRA President: Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (University of North
Carolina Charlotte)
Secretary: Maite Taboada (Simon Fraser University)
Treasurer: Anne Bezuidenhout (University of South Carolina)
Executive Committee: Patricia Amaral (Indiana University); Douglas
Biber (Northern Arizona University); Lindy Comstock (UCLA); François
Cooren (University of Montreal); Wayne Davis (Georgetown University);
Luisa Granato (National University of La Plata, Argentina); Laurence
Horn (Yale University); Monika Kirner-Ludwig (University of Innsbruck,
Austria); Alejandro Parini (University of Belgrano, Buenos Aires); E.
Allyn Smith (Université du Québec à Montréal); Marina Terkourafi
(Leiden University, The Netherlands); Camilla Vásquez (University of
South Florida); Gregory Ward (Northwestern University).
Graduate Student Council: Dawson Petersen, Chair (University of South
Carolina); Marina B. Asad (Ritsumeikan University); Mireia
Cabanes-Calabuig (Cambridge University); Kayleigh Fisher (University
of South Carolina); Shana Scucchi (University of South Carolina)



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