When: 26/07/2015 to 31/07/2015
Where: University of Antwerp
Website: http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE14&n=1468
Where: University of Antwerp
Website: http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE14&n=1468
Text from the IPRA-Website (2014-08-26):
The special theme of this edition of the International Pragmatics Conferences is Language and adaptability. Pragmatics studies language as a variable and dynamic resource for human communicative behavior. The notion of adaptability is meant to capture this perspective. As a special theme for this conference, it may be used to highlight two dimensions of language use and pragmatic research:
The dynamic interplay between structural choices and context in the everyday practice of interactional language use, conversational or otherwise, private or public, informal or institutional. Questions to be addressed include:
As always, the conference is open to ALL OTHER PRAGMATICS-RELATED TOPICS as well (where pragmatics is conceived broadly as a cognitive, social, and cultural perspective on language and communication).
The special theme of this edition of the International Pragmatics Conferences is Language and adaptability. Pragmatics studies language as a variable and dynamic resource for human communicative behavior. The notion of adaptability is meant to capture this perspective. As a special theme for this conference, it may be used to highlight two dimensions of language use and pragmatic research:
The dynamic interplay between structural choices and context in the everyday practice of interactional language use, conversational or otherwise, private or public, informal or institutional. Questions to be addressed include:
- Are context and structure separable?
- What does a language user’s ‘orientation’ to aspects of context mean?
- What do such questions and their answers imply for an understanding of implicitness vs. explicitness?
- How do or should the answers guide empirical pragmatic research?
- How do not only cities, but also countrysides, and continents, adapt to pervasive multilingualism, both in terms of everyday usage and in terms of policies?
- How do policies and usage relate to each other? How do individual speakers’ repertoires interact with changing social, spatial, and temporal circumstances?
- How does language manifest itself as an adaptable phenomenon in a context of changing communication technologies?
- How does political rhetoric adapt itself to changing historical circumstances?
As always, the conference is open to ALL OTHER PRAGMATICS-RELATED TOPICS as well (where pragmatics is conceived broadly as a cognitive, social, and cultural perspective on language and communication).