37.1196, Calls: 5th International Conference on Pragmatics and Philosophy (Italy)

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Subject: 37.1196, Calls: 5th International Conference on Pragmatics and Philosophy (Italy)

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Date: 23-Mar-2026
From: Alessandro Capone [acapone at unime.it]
Subject: 5th International Conference on Pragmatics and Philosophy

Full Title: 5th International Conference on Pragmatics and Philosophy
Short Title: Pragmasophia 5

Date: 11-May-2002 - 14-May-2002
Location: Messina, Italy
Contact Person: Alessandro Capone
Meeting Email: acapone at unime.it
Web Site:
https://pragmasophia2026.wordpress.com/provisional-abstracts/

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics

Call Deadline: 14-May-2026

Call for Papers:
We invite submissions on the conference topics. Abstracts must be sent
to acapone at unime.it by March 31, 2026. Submissions should be no more
than two pages (a maximum of 1,000 words) and include the author’s
name and title. The editor will anonymize all abstracts to ensure a
blind review process. Notification of acceptance will be sent by April
10, 2026.
Themes and Topics:
This conference explores the connection between theoretical aspects of
pragmatics and philosophy. We still believe that intentions play a
fundamental role in communication and that the hearer’s task is mainly
to reconstruct those intentions on the basis of what is explicitly
said (the semantics of a linguistic expression) and of contextual
clues and cues (Dascal 2003). Sometimes, as Mey argues (Mey 2001), a
priori knowledge of a frame and a script will determine interpretation
even if one partially says what one wants to say. Both bottom-up and
top-down inferential processes are involved (see Jasczolt’s notion of
merger representations). Pragmatics can be put to use in understanding
of philosophical puzzles (see Igor Douven The pragmatics of belief or
Capone (2016) on simple sentences and substitution). Implicit indirect
reports can, in some cases, be taken to resolve issues.
We welcome contributions in theoretical pragmatics, philosophical
pragmatics, societal pragmatics, intercultural pragmatics, clinical
pragmatics, pragmatics and cognition, contributions that relate to
conversational presuppositions, if-clauses, the pragmatics of ‘de se’
attitudes, proper names, quasi-proper names, proper names as speech
acts, pragmemes and speech acts in the cultural context, evolutionary
pragmatics, pragmatics and culture, rhetoric and argumentation,
pragmatics and the world languages (e.g. Japanese, Persian, Tok Pisin,
Papua New Guinea languages, in general, African languages, Asian
languages, South American languages, etc.), the pragmatics of funerary
rites, natural language semantics, the semantics/pragmatics debate.
The organizers will consult with K. Jaszczolt, Mitchell Green, Igor
Douven, Yael Sharvit, Louise Cummings, Fabrizio Macagno, Alison Hall,
Daniele Panizza, Roberto Graci, Yoko Mizuta, Chusni Hadiati,
Alessandra Giorgi for the acceptance of the abstracts and then the
selected papers to appear in the book(s). The books are likely to be
published in Capone’s series for Springer.
https://link.springer.com/series/11797.
Workshop on Evolutionary Pragmatics, organized by Mitchell Green
Scholars in recent years have been paying greater attention to
diachronic aspects of language use, and much of this work may be
bundled under the term evolutionary pragmatics. Questions falling
under this rubric include the cultural evolution of phenomena such as
conversational turn-taking and of the norms governing speech acts,
proto-language as it may have occurred in extinct hominid species or
extant non-human animals, the co-evolution of pragmatics and grammar,
and the evolution of presupposition accommodation and common ground;
the rubric also includes study of how new technologies and political
formations affect pragmatic norms. Among texts that are helping to
shape the burgeoning field are Geurts and Moore (eds.) Evolutionary
Pragmatics: Communicative Interaction and the Origins of Language
(Oxford, 2025), Acerbi, Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age (Oxford,
2020), and Adornetti and Ferretti, Evolutionary Pragmatics: How
Language Emerges from Use (Routledge, 2024).
Workshop “Rethinking the Explanatory Role of Intentions in Pragmatics”
Organized by Kasia Jaszczolt
Scholars interested in participating are invited to submit a proposal
to kmj21 at cam.ac.uk and acapone at unime.it. Notifications of acceptance
will be sent by March 31.
Special Issue on Pragmatics, Culture and Society:
Professor Capone is preparing a special issue on “Pragmatics, culture
and society” for The International Review of Pragmatics (of course all
papers will be strictly reviewed) to be published in 2028. If you
intend to come to this conference and send us a paper on Pragmatics,
culture and Society, please send abstracts directly to:
acapone at unime.it. Ideally you could both participate in this
conference and in the special issue. Only 8 papers will be accepted
for this volume.
Further Information:
The conference fee is 90 euros.
The registration fee will be used exclusively to cover lunches for all
participants during the four days of the event.
Please note that, due to University regulations, we are not able to
issue receipts for the registration fee itself. However, we can
provide receipts for the lunches corresponding to this amount.
Participants may therefore submit these lunch receipts to their
Universities for reimbursement, where applicable.
The conference papers will be published in two or three volumes of the
Springer series “Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy, and
Psychology”, edited by Alessandro Capone.
We welcome contributions from all areas of the world focusing on world
languages and cultures.
If you have any additional questions or specific requests, please
contact: acapone at unime.it.
We also invite you to explore the website:
https://alessandro-capone-pragmatics.webnode.it/.
Organized by:
Alessandro Capone (University of Messina), Igor Douven (Sorbonne
University), Mitchell Green (University of Connecticut), Pietro
Perconti (University of Messina)
Roberto Graci (University of Messina), Daniele Panizza (University of
Messina)

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