4Th International Conference Intercultural Pragmatics – Madrid 2010 Call for Papers
Abstracts are invited for papers and posters on any topic relevant to the fields of intercultural communication and pragmatics.
Three parallel sessions will be held according to the following topics:
- Pragmatics theories: meaning, role of context, semantics-pragmatics interface, explicature, implicature, speech act theory, etc.
- Intercultural aspects of pragmatics: research involving more than one language and culture or varieties of one language, lingua franca, intercultural misunderstandings, effect of dual language and multilingual systems on the development and use of pragmatic skills.
- Applications: usage and corpus-based approaches, teachability and learnability of pragmatic skills, pragmatic variations within one language and across languages, developmental pragmatics, etc.
Please send an abstract (max. 300 words) by filling out the form at the bottom of this page before 15th April
Completed work should preferably be presented in the form of a paper. Abstracts will be double-blind peer-reviewed, and should include sufficient detail to allow reviewers to judge the scientific merits of the work. Paper presentations will be allowed 20 minutes.
Notification of acceptance will be given by 1st June 2010.
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