October 17-19, 2014 at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

The goal of the 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 main topics of the conference are as follows:

(i)   Pragmatics theories: neo-Gricean approaches, relevance theory, theory of mind, meaning, role of context, grammaticalization, semantics-pragmatics interface, explicature, implicature, speech act theory, presuppositions, im/politeness, experimental pragmatics, etc.

(ii)   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.

(iii)  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.

Plenary speakers

Kent Bach (San Francisco State University)

Agnes He (SUNY, Stony Brook)

Gregory Ward (Northwestern University)

Deirdre Wilson (University of London)

Call for papers

Abstracts (max. 300 words) are invited for papers on any topic relevant to the fields of pragmatics and intercultural communication. When submitting the abstract the presenter should indicate which of the three main topics (1. pragmatics theory, 2. intercultural, cross-cultural, societal aspects of pragmatics, 3. applications) s/he thinks the abstract belongs to. Submissions are limited to one individual and one joint abstract per person.

On-line submission is at http://ampra.appling.ucla.edu/

Or as an email attachment to ampra14ucla@gmail.com

Abstract deadline: April 15, 2014

Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2014

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.

Panels 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 ampra14ucla@gmail.com

The deadline for panels is the same as for papers: April 15, 2014.

Publication

Two volumes of selected papers (Mouton de Gruyter, John Benjamins) are planned.

Conference venue

Covel Commons Conference Center

200 De Neve Dr

Los Angeles, CA 90024

Conference fee

Regular registration: $200

Early bird registration (before 1 July 2014): $170

Students (with valid I.D.): $80

Registration

http://ampra.appling.ucla.edu/attend-the-conference/conference-registration/

Accommodation

http://ampra.appling.ucla.edu/attend-the-conference/accommodations/

Conference website

http://ampra.appling.ucla.edu/

AMPRA website

http://www.albany.edu/ampra/index.html

Email address for inquires

ampra14@gmail.com