Budapest, Hungary, 9-14 July 2000
Check the IPrA home page for more details at
http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/
The 7th International Pragmatics Conference will be held on 9-14 July
2000 on the premises of Budapest Technical University (Building K), the
largest institution of higher education in Hungary, situated on the Buda
side of the city, overlooking the Danube, 10 minutes from the city
center.
CONFERENCE CHAIR: Ferenc KIEFER (IPrA President and Director of the
Linguistic Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: J=F3zsef ANDOR (P=E9cs), Wolfgang DRESSLER
(Vienna), L=E1szl=F3 KOML=D3SI (P=E9cs), Zolt=E1n K=D6VECSES (Budapest), Eni=
k
N=C9METH (Szeged), Csaba PL=C9H (Szeged), G=E1bor TOLCSVAI NAGY (Budapest)
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE: In addition to the members of the
Local Organizing Committee, the International Conference Committee will
include: Christiane BALTAXE (Los Angeles), Laura BENIGNI (Rome), Josie
BERNICOT (Paris), Jan BLOMMAERT (Ghent), Thorstein FRETHEIM (Trondheim),
Monica HELLER (Toronto), Alexandra JAFFE (Hattiesburg), Manfred
KIENPOINTNER (Innsbruck), Kang-Kwong LUKE (Hong Kong), Jan NUYTS
(Antwerp), Klaus-Uwe PANTHER (Hamburg), Ben RAMPTON (London), Srikant
SARANGI (Cardiff), Alain TROGNON (Nancy), Jef VERSCHUEREN (Antwerp)
TOPICS
The conference is open to all topics of interest to pragmatics in its
widest sense as a cognitive, social, and cultural perspective on
langauge and communication. The special topic of this edition of the
International Pragmatics Conferences is Cognition in language use: The
role of perception and representation, memory and planning, and
metalinguistic awareness.
PLENARY LECTURES (titles are tentative)
Jens ALLWOOD (G=F6teborg), "Activity-based analysis of meaning and
interaction"
Wolfgang DRESSLER & Heinz STARK (Vienna), "Clinical impairments of text
pragmatics: Linguistic or cognitive?"
Ray GIBBS (Santa Cruz), "Inferring what speakers say and what they mean"
Auli HAKULINEN (Helsinki), "What can a grammarian learn from
conversation analysis?"
Maya HICKMANN (Paris), "Cognition and language in child development:
Old questions, new directions"
John LUCY (Chicago), "Fashions of speaking: Linguistic relativity in the
social sciences"
Csaba PL=C9H (Szeged), "Language processing & modularity"
Michael TOMASELLO (Leipzig), "The pragmatics of word learning in early
child language"
OTHER EVENTS include regular lecture sessions, poster sessions, panels,
and data sessions.
PANELS on a wide range of topics (both in the special topic area and in
domains of general interest) are already being prepared by Norine BERENZ
(Johannesburg), K=E1roly BIBOK (Szeged), Igor BOGUSLAVSKY (Moscow),
Patrick BOYLAN (Rome), Frank BRISARD (Antwerp), Hubert CUYCKENS
(Leuven), Derek EDWARDS (Loughborough), Dariusz GALASINSKI
(Wolverhampton), Yueguo GU (Beijing), Paul ten HAVE (Amsterdam), Sachiko
IDE (Tokyo), Karol JANICKI (Bergen), Katarzyna JASZCZOLT (Cambridge),
Istv=E1n KECSK=C9S (Missoula), Andr=E1s KERT=C9SZ (Debrecen), Peter KLOTZ
(Bayreuth), L=E1szl=F3 KOMLOSI (P=E9cs), Zolt=E1n K=D6VECSES (Budapest), Mar=
ta
MALECZKI (Szeged), Ulrike MEINHOF (Bradford), Enik N=C9METH (Szeged), Jan
NUYTS (Antwerp), Klaus-Uwe PANTHER (Hamburg), Tunde PAPP (Missoula),
Aneta PAVLENKO (Philadelphia), Uta QUASTHOFF (Dortmund), Kanavillil
RAJAGOPALAN (Campinas), Ken TURNER (Brighton), Li WEI (Newcastle), Ruth
WODAK (Vienna)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Letters of intent for the organization of panels, specifying a clear
pragmatics-related topic and explaining the rationale behind the
initiative, should reach the IPrA Secretariat as soon as possible, but
at any rate no later than September 15th 1999. Such proposals will be
negotiated directly in view of the contribution they make to the overall
program. Note that all contributions to panels have to be submitted in
precisely the same way as individual papers
Paper submissions for panel contributions (whether invited by the panel
organizer(s) or sent in spontaneously), lectures and posters, as well
as proposals for data sessions should be sent before November 1st 1999
to the IPrA Secretariat.
=46or detailed instructions for the submission of conference
contributions, as well as for information on registration and other
conference-related matters, contact:
IPrA Secretariat
P.O. Box 33 (Antwerp 11)
B-2018 Antwerp
Belgium
tel. + fax +32-3-230 55 74
e-mail: ipra who-is-at uia.ua.ac.be
or consult our home page: <http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/>
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School of Education
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405
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Email: cunningh who-is-at indiana.edu
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