FINAL CALL
6th Lodz Symposium
New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics (NDLP2012)
University of Łódź, Poland
Chair of Pragmatics
Łódź, 26-28 May 2012
http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/pragmatics/ndlp2012
CALL FOR PAPERS
This 10th anniversary edition of the NDLP conference series aims to respond
to a surge of new research in pragmatics, with a view to bringing together
the novel, empirically, experimentally and clinically based models, and
classical topics/frameworks such as Gricean pragmatics, speech act and
presupposition theory. We encourage papers (re-)examining the
semantics-pragmatics boundary, which has been sometimes blurred by the
confrontation of the new and the traditional frameworks. Proposals are
welcome at the intersection of philosophy of language and pragmatics
dealing with theoretical, methodological and definitional issues, as well
as issues of interdisciplinarity in pragmatic investigation.
While we specially encourage presentations of theoretical approaches which
have a basis in empirical studies, or allow for experimentally testable
predictions, the conference continues to be open to all kinds of pragmatics
oriented research recognizing pragmatics as a functional (i. e. cognitive,
social and cultural) perspective on language and communication. This
applies to functional studies involving multiple and heterogeneous
territories: everyday discourse, media, education, political and
professional settings, problems of linguistic construction and maintenance
of identity, pragmatic genres, issues of multilingualism and linguistic
pluralism, pragmatic aspects of translation, pragmatic awareness in foreign
language teaching, and more.
Papers will be allocated 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. The
language of the conference is English.
Abstracts of no more than 350 words (excluding references) should be sent
by email as a Word attachment to strus_pl@yahoo.com (Prof. Piotr Cap,
Conference Head) by 15 January 2012. Please include name, affiliation,
email address and paper title in the body of the email. All abstracts will
be accepted subject to review by an international Scientific Committee.
Notification of acceptance decisions will be communicated via email by 31
January 2012.
INVITED SPEAKERS
The following scholars have accepted to address the conference as keynote
and plenary speakers:
Keynote lecture:
John R. SEARLE (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
Plenary lectures:
Jonathan CULPEPER (Lancaster University, UK)
Anita FETZER (University of Wuerzburg, Germany)
Istvan KECSKES (State University of New York at Albany, USA)
Stephen C. LEVINSON (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics at
Nijmegen, the Netherlands)
Savas L. TSOHATZIDIS (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Daniel VANDERVEKEN (University of Quebec at Trois-Rivieres, Canada)
SPECIAL EVENT
The conference will be preceded by the conferral of the University of Łódź
honoris causa degree on John Searle. The honoris causa ceremony is
scheduled for 25 May 2012. All conference participants are welcome to
attend. The venue of the ceremony will be announced on the conference
website.
*SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE*
Kent Bach (San Francisco State University)
Emma Borg (University of Reading)
Robyn Carston (University College London)
Louise Cummings (Nottingham Trent University)
Marcelo Dascal (Tel Aviv University)
Bruce Fraser (Boston University)
Raymond W. Gibbs (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Rachel Giora (Tel Aviv University)
Andreas H. Jucker (University of Zurich)
Steven Pinker (Harvard University)
Francois Recanati (Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris)
Piotr Stalmaszczyk (University of Łódź)
Jef Verschueren (University of Antwerp)
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Prof. zw. dr hab. Piotr Cap
Chair of Pragmatics (Head)
Institute of English, University of Lodz
Al.Kosciuszki 65, 90-514 Lodz, POLAND
tel/fax +48 42 6655220
http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/pragmatics/faculty/pcap
IRP journal link: http://www.brill.nl/irp
NDLP2012 conference link: http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/pragmatics/ndlp2012
-- Robyn Carston UCL Linguistics Chandler House 2 Wakefield Street London WC1N 1PF Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 4037 (internal 24037) Fax: +44 (0)20 7679 4238 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychlangsci/research/linguistics/People/linguistics-staff/robyn_carstonReceived on Fri Jan 6 16:42:05 2012
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