8th INTERNATIONAL PRAGMATICS CONFERENCE
TORONTO, Canada
13-18 July 2003
The 8th International Pragmatics Conference will be held on 13-18 July
2003 at the University of Toronto.
CONFERENCE CHAIR: Monica HELLER (Univ. of Toronto)
LOCAL SITE COMMITTEE: Susan EHRLICH (York Univ.), Ruth KING (York Univ.),
Normand LABRIE (Univ. of Toronto), Grit LIEBSCHER (Univ. of Waterloo),
Bonnie McELHINNY (Univ. of Toronto) Donna PATRICK (Brock Univ.)
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE: In addition to the members of the
Local Site Committee, the International Conference Committee includes:
Charles ANTAKI (Loughborough Univ.), Jenny COOK-GUMPERZ (Univ. of California
at Santa Barbara), Susan ERVIN-TRIPP (Univ. of California at Berkeley;
IPrA President), GU Yueguo (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), Andreas
JUCKER (Justus Liebig Univ. Giessen), Ferenc KIEFER (Hungarian Academy
of Sciences; chair, 7th IPC), Enikv NIMETH (Univ of Szeged), Ben RAMPTON
(King's College London), Eddy ROULET (Univ. of Geneva), Anna-Brita STENSTRVM
(Univ. of Bergen), Elizabeth TRAUGOTT (Stanford Univ.), Jef VERSCHUEREN
(Univ. of Antwerp; IPrA Secretary General), Yorick WILKS (Univ. of Sheffield)
THEMES: As always, the conference will be open to all themes relevant
to the pragmatics of language in its widest sense as an interdisciplinary
cognitive, social, and cultural perspective. Prospective participants
should, however, pay attention to the distribution of topics across event
types, as described below. In addition, there is a special theme.
SPECIAL THEME:
Linguistic pluralism : policies, practices and pragmatics
This is a theme that was chosen by the Local Site Committee and approved
by the Consultation Board. It corresponds to the interests of a large
number of IPrA members, and permits us to link cognitive, linguistic,
social and political approaches to a phenomenon of long-standing interest
in pragmatics and of current theoretical, as well as social and policy
importance. The intention will be to focus the conference on making those
links in a number of ways, ranging from choice of plenary speakers and
special panels, to invitations to interested and relevant Canadians outside
the academy. The theme is one which also fits the venue, given Canada's
historical involvement in debates on such issues, and Toronto's profile
as a major centre of new globalized urban multilingualism. However, it
is meant here to go beyond traditional ideas about "multilingualism"
understood
as connecting linguistic difference primarily to ethnic or national
distinctio
ns, and rather to extend that concept to the links between language and
all forms of social difference and social inequality. The theme is also
appropriate to the expertise of the members of the Local Site Committee
which is committed to tying academic approaches to broader public debates.
PLENARY LECTURES: Plenary speakers will include
Susan GAL (Dept. of Anthropology, Univ. of Chicago), Language ideologies
and the practices of power: "Reading between the lines" during the Cold
War
Jocelyn LITOURNEAU (Dipartement d'histoire, Univ. Laval, Quibec), La langue
comme lieu de mimoire et lieu de passage / Language as realm of memory
and passage
Lorenza MONDADA (Sciences du Langage, Univ. Lumihre, Lyon, France), Scientific
knowledge as an interactional accomplishment: On the analysis of research
groups in international networks
Eni ORLANDI (Univ. Estadual de Campinas, Brazil), Le Discours en tant
qu4objet spicifique dans l4histoire des Sciences du Langage / Discourse
as a specific object in the history of Language Sciences
Dan SPERBER (CNRS, Paris, France) Relevance theory: Pragmatics and beyond
Ruth WODAK (Inst. f|r Sprachwissenschaft, Univ. of Vienna, Austria),
European language policies and European identities
PANELS:
* Oeuvre panels
Jan BLOMMAERT (University of Ghent), Pierre Bourdieu: The ethnographic
turn
This panel is devoted to the work of Pierre BOURDIEU and its relevance
for pragmatics.
Charles BRIGGS (University of California at San Diego), Pragmatics of
institutional discourse
This panel is devoted to the work of Aaron CICOUREL and its relevance
for pragmatics.
Jenny COOK-GUMPERZ (Univ. of California at Santa Barbara), Basil Bernstein
and pragmatics: class, code and language
This panel is devoted to the work of Basil BERNSTEIN and its relevance
for pragmatics.
* Special topic panels
Peter AUER (Univ. Freiburg), Acts of identity: Language indexing social
membership
Adriana BOLIVAR & Paola BENTIVOGLIO (Univ. Central de Venezuela), Changing
attitudes to lesser languages in Latin America
James COLLINS (State Univ. of New York - Albany), Class, Identity, and
Literacy: Ethnographic and Discourse-Analytic Perspectives
Werner KALLMEYER & Inken KEIM (Inst. f|r Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim),
Sociostylistic perspectives on language and identity
Normand LABRIE (Univ. of Toronto), Enjeux de santi dans des sociitis
plurilingu
es
Yaron MATRAS (Univ. of Manchester), The mixed language debate: Natural
evolution and structural manipulation
Donna PATRICK (Brock Univ.), Indigenous language stability and change
Kanavillil RAJAGOPALAN (Univ. Estadual de Campinas) & Marilyn MARTIN-JONES
(Univ. of Wales), Politics of language and the linguist
Tomek STRZALKOWSKI (State Univ. of New York - Albany), Building automated
multilingual call centers
* General interest panels
Jean-Paul BRONCKART & Laurent FILLIETTAZ (Univ. de Genhve), L'analyse
des actions et des discours en situation de travail
Robyn CARSTON (Univ. College London), Relevance theory and word meaning
Yrjv ENGESTRVM (Univ. of California at San Diego), Activity theory, pragmatics
and the study of language at work
Katarzyna JASZCZOLT (Cambridge Univ.), Temporality and post-Gricean pragmatics
Asa KASHER (Tel Aviv Univ.), Revisiting philosophical pragmatics: Implicatures
and speech act theory
Michael PERKINS (Univ. of Sheffield), Pragmatics and language pathology
Corinne ROSSARI & Eddy ROULET (Univ. de Genhve), Les nouveaux diveloppements
dans les recherches sur les relations de discours et leurs marqueurs
Scott SCHWENTER (Ohio State Univ.), Current issues in the diachronic
micropragm
atics of Romance languages
Anna-Brita STENSTRVM & Karin AIJMER (Univ. of Bergen & Univ. of Gothenburg),
Conversation analysis: Different approaches to spoken interaction
CALL FOR PAPERS
There is one submission deadline for paper and panel proposals: 1 November
2002
A call for papers with complete instructions is to be found on the IPrA
website (address below). Paper versions can be requested from Ann Verhaert
(ann.verhaert@ipra.be)
GO TO: http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/
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Robyn Carston
Department of Phonetics & Linguistics, UCL
Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Tel: + 44 (0)20 7679 3174
Fax: + 44 (0)20 7383 4108
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/robyn/home.htm
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