1st International Pragmatics Conference of the Americas and the 5th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics
October 19-21, 2012, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
The goal of the joint conference is to promote both theoretical and applied research in pragmatics, and bring together scholars who are interested in different subfields of pragmatics (philosophical, linguistic, cognitive, social, intercultural, interlanguage, etc.). Three parallel sessions will be held on the following topics:
- Pragmatics theories: post- and neo-Gricean approaches, relevance theory, theory of mind, meaning, role of context, semantics-pragmatics interface, explicature, implicature, speech act theory, presuppositions, im/politeness, experimental pragmatics, cognitive pragmatics, etc.
- Intercultural, cross-cultural and societal aspects of pragmatics: research involving more than one language and culture or varieties of one language, lingua franca, technologically mediated communication, bilinguals’ language use, intercultural misunderstandings, effect of dual language and multilingual systems on the development and use of pragmatic skills, language of aggression and conflict, language of oppression, gendered language, etc.
- Applications: usage and corpus-based approaches, pragmatic competence, teachability and learnability of pragmatic skills, pragmatic variations within one language and across languages, code-switching and -mixing, developmental pragmatics, etc.
Conference website:
http://ampra.uncc.edu
Email address for inquires: AmPra12@gmail.com
Confirmed plenary speakers:
Laurence Horn – Yale University
Kasia Jaszczolt – Cambridge University
Istvan Kecskes – State University of New York, Albany
Robin Lakoff – University of California, Berkeley
John Perry – Stanford University
Co-chairs:
Pilar G. Blitvich – University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Istvan Kecskes – State University of New York, Albany
Secretary:
Brittany Stone – University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Organizing committee:
Boyd Davis – University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Ron Lunsford - University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Ralf Thiede - University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Deborah Bosley - University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Concepcion Godev – University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Elizabeth Miller - University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Becky Roeder - University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Ashlyn Williams - University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Abby M. Dobs – Penn State University
Katie Ledford - University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Julie Amick – University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Sponsored by:
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (UNC Charlotte)
Department of English (UNC Charlotte)
Intercultural Pragmatics Journal (Mouton de Gruyter)
Scientific committee:
Barbara Abbott – Michigan State University
Anne Barron – University of Lüneburg
Anne Bezuidenhout – University of South Carolina, Columbia
Adriana Bolívar – Central University of Venezuela
Patricia Bou-Franch – Universitat de Valencia
Richard Brecht – CASL, University of Maryland
Robin K. Burk – Battelle Corporation
Noel Burton-Roberts – Newcastle University
Alessandro Capone – University of Palermo
Carmen Curco – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Dan Davidson – Bryn Mawr College
Wayne Davis – Georgetown University
Susan Ehrlich – York University, Toronto
Bruce Fraser – Boston University
Anita Fetzer – University of Würzburg
Susan Gal – University of Chicago
Ray Gibbs – University of California, Santa Cruz
Michael Haugh – Griffith University, Brisbane
Gabriele Kasper – University of Hawaii at Manoa
Silvia Kaul de Marlangeon – National University of Río Cuarto, Argentina
Mohammad Hossein Keshavarz – Teacher Training University, Tehran
Dale Koike – University of Texas, Austin
Kepa Korta – Universidad del Pais Vasco
Maxim Kronhaus – Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow
Juana Marin-Arrese – Universidad Complutense, Madrid
Jacob Mey – University of Southern Denmark
Jacques Moeschler – University of Geneva
Enikö Nemeth- University of Szeged
María Laura Pardo – Universidad de Buenos Aires
Lluis Payrató – Universitat de Barcelona
Ana Cristina Pelosi de Macedo – Federal University of Ceara, Brazil
Jesús Romero-Trillo – Autonomous University of Madrid
Sükriye Ruhi – Middle East Technical University, Ankara
Leonel Ruiz-Miyares – Centro de Linguística Aplicada, Santiago de Cuba
Louis de Saussure – Université de Neuchâtel
Klaus Schneider – University of Bonn
Jiang Wangqi, – Peking University, Beijing
Anna Wierzbicka – Australian National University
Mary Wildner-Bassett – University of Arizona
Deirdre Wilson – University of London
Andre Wlodarczyk – University of Paris, Sorbonne
Call for papers and panels:
Abstracts (max. 300 words) are invited for papers and panels on any topic relevant to the fields of pragmatics and intercultural communication.
On-line submission:
http://ampra.uncc.edu
or
as an email attachment to AmPra12@gmail.com
Abstract deadline: 15 April 2012
Notification of acceptance: 1 June 2012
Please, include your name, affiliation and e-mail address. Abstracts will be double-blind peer-reviewed, and should include sufficient details to allow reviewers to judge the scientific merits of the work. Paper presentations will be allowed 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for questions. All presentations will be in English.
Panel proposals are welcome. Panel organizers should send an abstract of the panel (max. 300 words) and abstracts of the panel participants as an email attachment to AmPra12@gmail.com.
The deadline for panels is the same as for papers, April 15th, 2012.
Publication:
Three volumes of selected papers (theories; applications; intercultural aspects): Mouton de Gruyter, John Benjamins, and Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Conference fee (includes coffee breaks:
Regular registration: $180
Early bird registration (before 30 June 2010): $150
Students (with valid I.D.): $80
Venue:
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Center City Building
Registration:
Information forthcoming
Accommodation:
See webpage for details