CFP: Intercultural Pragmatics 2014

Abstracts (max. 300 words) are invited for papers on any topic relevant to the fields of pragmatics and intercultural communication. Three parallel sessions will be held on the following topics:

1. Pragmatics theories: neo-Gricean approaches, relevance theory, theory of mind, meaning, role of context, semantics-pragmatics interface, explicature, implicature, grammaticalisation, speech act theory, presuppositions, im/politeness, experimental pragmatics, etc.
2. 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’ and heritage speakers’ language use, intercultural misunderstandings, effect of dual language and multilingual systems on the development and use of pragmatic skills, language of aggression and conflict, etc.
3. Applications: usage and corpus-based approaches, pragmatic competence, teachability and learnability of pragmatic skills, pragmatic variations within one language and across languages, developmental pragmatics, etc.

An anonymous copy of your abstract should be submitted alongside your name, affiliation and contact details via email to: [email protected] . All 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.   Abstract submission deadline: 20 December 2013   Notification of acceptance: 20 January 2014

Conference fees (including lunches, coffee breaks, wi-fi access, a conference pack and transportation to/from the conference venue): 

• Regular participants: 200 euros (early bird until the 28th of February: 180 euros)
• Students (with valid ID): 150 euros (early bird until the 28th of February: 120 euros) 

Contact e-mail: [email protected]