I SYMPOSIUM ON INTERCULTURAL, COGNITIVE AND SOCIAL PRAGMATICS (EPICS I)
CURRENT ISSUES ON PRAGMATIC RESEARCH
University of Seville (Spain) - 10-12th April, 2002
The research group Intercultural Pragmatic Studies (English-Spanish):
Pragmatic and Discourse Aspects of the Department of English Philology
at the University of Seville (Spain) is pleased to announce its First
Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics (EPICS I –
I Encuentros de Pragmática Intercultural, Cognitiva y Social), to be
held in April 10-12th, 2002.
Since the topic of this edition will be Current Issues on Pragmatic
Research we would like to invite anyone currently researching in the
areas of pragmatics and discourse analysis, from any methodological
perspective or framework, to participate as attendant in EPICS I.
The Symposium will serve as a forum where applied linguists and
practitioners of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis can meet, share
experiences, discuss common problems, and present papers on their
latest research in the field. EPICS I also wishes to create awareness
among graduating students of the growing interest in this area of
linguistic expertise.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Prof. Bruce Fraser (Boston University, USA) and Prof.
Juliane House (Universität Hamburg)
There will be four plenary lectures and several blocks of contributed
papers grouped according to topic. Some of the titles to be presented
in EPICS I are the following:
-A micro-sociopragmatics of backstage comments on patient-nurse
Conflict. R.Cameron (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
-A procedural analysis of even. E.Delgado (University of the Basque
Country, Spain)
-Building a corporate image: An analysis of identity markers in
business speeches. Van De Mieroop (Ufsia, Belgium)
-Cross-cultural storytelling in intercultural settings. M.Bergelson
(Moscow State University)
-Delivery strategies in classroom lectures: organising the message.
J.C. Palmer (Universitat Jaume I, Spain)
-Directives as communicative acts and as communicative strategies.
H.Oim (University of Tartu, Estonia)
-Discourse in a prison setting. R. Kalisz & W. Kubinski (University of
Gdask, Poland)
-Enhancing the speaker-audience relationship in academic lectures. I.
Fortanet (Universitat Jaume I, Spain)
-Media discourse as a social practice: what is a stake in TV debates.
M. Burger (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
-Misinterpreting word problems. P. Ron (Universidad de Huelva, Spain)
-Neo-Gricean pragmatics and anaphora. Y.Huang (University of Reading,
UK)
-Newcomers to the pool of quotatives: go and like. I.Buchstaller
(University of Edinburgh, UK)
-Pragmatic functions of Spanish parenthetical verbs. S.Schneider
(University of Graz, Austria)
-Psycho-cognition bases of irony understanding: an empirical study.
Y.Zeng (Tsinhua University, Beijing, PR China)
-Temporal Adverb order and focality. A. Ortigosa (University of La
Rioja, Spain)
-Zero-Anaphora: A cognitive-Pragmatic Approach. M.Pu (University of
Maine at Farmington, USA)
FEES
Until March 25, 2002: Students 20 euro and attendants 50 euro
From March 25, 2002 onwards: Students 20 euro and attendants 60 euro
We hope you will circulate this information to your colleagues and
others in your professional network, and to any discussion groups to
which you subscribe. For more information aobut resgistration,
please address to Reyes Gomez rgommor@dhuma.upo.es or Manuel Padilla
mpadilla@siff.us.es.We hope to see you in April 2002, here in Seville
(Spain).
Thank you for your attention
EPICS I Organising Committee
Dr. Pilar Garces-Conejos
Dr. Reyes Gomez-Moron
D. Manuel Padilla-Cruz
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