37.3391, Confs: Pragmasophia 2028 (Italy)

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Date: 16-Oct-2026
From: Alessandro Capone [acapone at unime.it]
Subject: Pragmasophia 2028


Pragmasophia 2028
Short Title: PP6
Theme: Pragmatics and Philosophy

Date: 15-May-2028 - 18-May-2028
Location: Messina, Italy
Meeting URL: https://pragmasophia2028.wordpress.com/

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

Submission Deadline: 31-Dec-2027

Pragmasophia 2028
6th International Conference on Pragmatics and Philosophy
Official email address: acapone at unime.it
Organized by Alessandro Capone, Igor Douven, Mitchell Green, Paola
Pennisi, Roberto Graci, Giovanni Pennisi and Assunta Penna.
Official email address: acapone at unime.it
Introduction to the conference: Marco Carapezza, University of Palermo
Plenary speaker: Stephen C. Levinson, Max Planck Institute for
psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
Key Speakers:
Airenti, Gabriella – University of Turin
Capone, Alessandro – University of Messina
Carapezza Marco, University of Palermo
Cardella, Valentina – University of Messina
Carston, Robyn – University College London
Chierchia, Gennaro – Harvard University
Cummings, Louise – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Delfitto, Denis – University of Verona
Douven, Igor – Sorbonne University
Falzone, Alessandra – University of Messina
Fiorin, Gaetano – University of Trieste
García-Carpintero, Manuel – University of Barcelona
Giorgi, Alessandra – Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Gobber, Giovanni – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano
Graci, Roberto – University of Messina
Green, Mitchell – University of Connecticut
Hadiati, Chusni – Jenderal Soedirman University
Hall, Alison – De Montfort University
Haugh, Michael – University of Queensland
Higginbotham, Enrico – University of Arizona
Horn, Laurence R. – Yale University
Jaszczolt, Kasia – University of Cambridge
Jeshion, Robin, USC
Jucker, Andreas, University of Zurich.
Labinaz, Paolo – University of Trieste
Lombardi Vallauri, Edoardo – RomaTre University
Nelson, Michael – University of California
Poggi, Francesca – University of Milan
Pompei, Anna – RomaTre University
Saka, Paul – Texas Rio Grande Valley University
Salmon, Nathan, University of Santa Barbara, California
Santulli, Francesca – Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Sbisà, Marina – University of Trieste
Sharvit, Yael – University of California
Stainton, Robert – University of Western Ontario
Warner, Richard – Chicago-Kent College of Law
Wong, Jock – National University of Singapore
Scholars from all nations are invited to submit their abstracts in
relation to the following topics:
 - Pragmatics and philosophy;
 - Pragmatics, culture and society;
 - Intercultural pragmatics;
 - Clinical pragmatics;
 - Pragmatics and law;
 - Historical pragmatics;
 - Pragmatics and cognition;
 - Poetics and pragmatics;
 - Pragmatics and political discourse;
 - Conversation analysis;
 - Experimental pragmatics;
 - Pragmatics and the educational system;
Scholars from all areas of the world are welcome to submit their
abstracts.
Conference fee: euros 130 to be transferred to the iban we provide
later. (This fee includes 4 lunches; part of the conference fee will
cover expenses to 3-4 invited speakers).
Themes:
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.
The conference is dedicated to the memory of Istvan Kecskes.



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