Thank you to all those who participated in, presented at, and volunteered for the inaugural American Pragmatics Conference and the 5th Intercultural Pragmatics Conference. We encourage you all to join our association to stay updated with current news and upcoming conferences. Don’t forget: Conference co-chairs Pilar G. Blitvich and Istvan Kecskes will be editing two volumes of selected papers from this year’s conference. Submissions, and any questions you may have, can be emailed to ampra12@gmail.com.

We have recently launched the American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA). Our association 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, social, inter-cultural and inter-language paradigms of pragmatics.

If you are interested in becoming a member of AMPRA, please read our statutes and email inquiries to Pilar G. Blitvich.

Don’t forget that U.S. Airways provides direct flights into Charlotte from many cities, including New York, Munich, Dublin, London, Frankfurt, Paris, Madrid, Chicago, Los Angeles, and many others.

Please note that our conference venue – UNC Charlotte’s Center City Building – is located in uptown Charlotte, not on the main UNC Charlotte campus.

All of the accommodations that we have recommended are uptown and within walking distance of the venue.

When: October 19-21, 2012

Where: UNC Charlotte Center City
320 E. 9th Street
Charlotte, NC 28202

• For information about where to stay, and things to do, see our Accommodations and About Charlotte pages under “Attend the Conference.”
• To register, mouse over “Attend the Conference,” and select Register. Beginning on June 1, you will be taken to an online storefront to complete your registration.

We look forward to seeing you in October!

The journals associated with AMPRA are: Intercultural Pragmatics (Mouton de Gruyter) and the forthcoming Journal of Language of Aggression and Conflict (John Benjamins).

The new Journal of Language of Aggression and Conflict will be officially launched at AMPRA I.

Tomorrow – Sunday, April 15 – is the deadline for abstract submissions. We look forward to receiving yours! Submit your abstract on our website.

Our third call for papers has been sent out. You can read it online or download a copy. The submission deadline for paper and panel proposals is April 15, 2012. You can submit yours online.

To submit an abstract online, you can mouse over “Attend the Conference,” and click on “Submit an Abstract.” (But we’ve also included this handy link: Submit an Abstract.)

You can now take a virtual tour of the UNC Charlotte campus. You can click on buildings to learn more about them and even use the “Layers” feature to locate parking, academic buildings, or food. Take a look: http://virtualtour.uncc.edu/