LINGUIST List 21.2968 Sun Jul 18 2010 Calls: Pragmatics/Japan Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Hiroaki Tanaka, 13th Annual Conference of Pragmatics Society of Japan Message 1: 13th Annual Conference of Pragmatics Society of Japan Date: 17-Jul-2010 From: Hiroaki Tanaka <psj.secretarygmail.com> Subject: 13th Annual Conference of Pragmatics Society of Japan E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: 13th Annual Conference of Pragmatics Society of Japan Short Title: PSJ 13 Date: 04-Dec-2010 - 05-Dec-2010 Location: Osaka, Japan Contact Person: Hiroaki Tanaka Meeting Email: psj.secretarygmail.com Web Site: http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/psj4/ Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics Call Deadline: 20-Aug-2010 Meeting Description: We are pleased to announce that the Pragmatics Society of Japan is accepting an application of paper presentation for 13th Annual Conference to be held at Kansai University in Osaka Prefecture on Dec. 4th and 5st of 2010. The Special Lecture will be given by the invited speaker, Dr. Malcolm Coulthard, Aston University, UK). We also planning to organize a special symposium, spoken by three invited speakers and a designated discussant, titled 'Pragmatics from Language Function.' Call For Papers -Date: Dec. 4th and 5st 2010 -Place: Kansai University, Osaka, Japan -http://www.kansai-u.ac.jp/English/about_ku/location.html -The deadline for submitting abstracts: August, 20th, 2010 -Notification of the result of selection: by October -Submissions: Submissions should be sent to: psj.presentationgmail.com Contact Person: Tetsuharu Koyama Kyoto Notre Dam University, Center for International Programs (1, Minami- Nonogamicho, Shimogmo, Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto 606-0847, Japan, Tel:+81-75-781-1173 Please note that applicants should specify the area of the presentation and the language(English or Japanese) you are going to use in the presentation, and give 5 key phrases which may characterize the paper. Submission of Abstract: Abstracts for paper presentation are invited on any aspects of pragmatic analysis from a variety of fields, including historical pragmatics, cognitive pragmatics, interface of pragmatics and other disciplines, interlanguage pragmatics, social pragmatics, comparative or contrastive pragmatics studies. All abstracts (which must be in English) must be submitted electrically, as attachment files in MS Word format (and if possible in PDF format) to the following address: psj.presentationgmail.com The guidelines for abstract submission: 1. Authors should not include their names or otherwise reveal their identity anywhere in the abstract title. 2. The length of an abstract should be approximately 500 words, not including references, figures, and/or graphs. The maximum length of the abstract is two pages. 3. The (principal) author's full name must be used as a filename. 4. The body of the e-mail message must contain the following information: a. title of a paper b. name(s) of author(s)?Please write your family name in BOLD LETTERS? c. affiliation(s) of author(s) d. e-mail address(es) of author(s) e. postal address of the (principal) author f. type of paper presentation: lecture, or poster, or workshop (accepted only for a group application with three or four presentations) 5. The header (subject) of the e-mail should be ''Abstract Submission for 11th Annual Conference of PSJ''. 6. To ensure proper review, applicants are asked to specify the area(s) of pragmatic research addressed by the paper, by choosing one or two from the list below: 1. deixis and reference 2. pragmatic inference 3. speech act 4. politeness and socio-linguistic approaches 5. cognitive linguistic approaches 6. relevance theory 7. pragmatics and grammar 8. discourse analytic approaches 9. CA , ethnomethodology 10. historical pragmatics 11. others 7. Applicants are also asked to give 5 key phrases which may help characterize the paper. Organizing Committee: Masa-aki Yamanashi (President)(Kyoto University) Susumu Kubo (Vice President)(Matsuyama University) Hiroaki Tanaka (Secretary General)(Kyoto Institute of Technology) Yoshihiro Nishimitsu (Chair, Organizing Committee)(Kobe university, Emeritus) Organizing Committee Members: Isao Higashimori, Kairi Igarashi, Tetsuharu Koyama, Hideo Tominaga, Toru Hiratsuka, Yukiko Moriyama, Mitsuyo Suzuki, Shunichiro Nagatomo, Shigehiro Haruki, Yu Wei Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 18-Jul-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.