[ecrea] conference: 15th International Pragmatics Conference

status: CfP Call for papers
conference
15th International Pragmatics Conference
16.07.2017-21.07.2017
Belfast, Northern Ireland

Special theme: "Pragmatics in the real world"

Pragmatics is underpinned by the idea that language use is a form of 
social action with real world consequences tied to the specific context 
of language use. Different theoretical perspectives under a broad 
conception of pragmatics articulate the notion of social action 
differently and hence arrive at differing perspectives on the 
relationships both between language and other forms of social action and 
between language use and conceptions of context. Nonetheless, as the 
range of paper topics in any volume of the IPrA journal Pragmatics will 
attest, the insights provided by pragmatics research into the essential 
connections between language use, context and social action facilitate 
detailed understanding of real world contexts, practices and 
institutions. Simultaneously, analyses of pragmatic aspects of language 
in real world settings have been shown to inform our theoretical 
understanding of the relationships between language, meaning, context 
and social action.

This theme has particular resonance for Belfast because it is a city in 
the midst of a transition to a post-conflict society and transformations 
to forms and choices of language and meanings are an implicit and often 
explicit part of that transition. The theme also has a particular 
currency for the whole of the UK as, here, the “impact agenda” has come 
to dominate external evaluations of research which measure the economic 
and social benefits of research outside of academia.

Alongside the local significance of the theme is the broader 
significance for a number of branches of research with the international 
discipline of pragmatics, including:

• Language and Politics

•  Language in Forensic Settings

•  Language and Education

•  Language and Health

•  Language in Clinical Settings

•  Language and Social Change

•  Language and Social Media

•  Language and Identity

In addition to the special theme, the conference is open to all topics 
relevant to linguistic pragmatics in its broadest sense as the 
interdisciplinary (cognitive, social, cultural) science of language use.

Contact person: Jef Verschueren
email: (jef.verschueren /at/ uantwerpen.be)
Address: University of Antwerp (SR209)
Prinsstraat 13
2000 Antwerp
Belgium

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