LINGUIST List 21.4684 Sun Nov 21 2010 Confs: 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 meeting of Pragmatics Society of Japan Message 1: 13th Annual meeting of Pragmatics Society of Japan Date: 21-Nov-2010 From: Hiroaki Tanaka <psj.secretarygmail.com> Subject: 13th Annual meeting of Pragmatics Society of Japan E-mail this message to a friend 13th Annual meeting of Pragmatics Society of Japan Short Title: PSJ 13 Date: 04-Dec-2010 - 05-Dec-2010 Location: Kansai University, Osaka, Japan Contact: Hiroaki Tanaka Contact Email: psj.secretarygmail.com Meeting URL: http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/psj4/ Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics Meeting Description: We are pleased to announce the 13th Annual Meeting of pragmatics Society of Japan to be held in Senriyama Campus, Kansai University, Japan on 4 and 5 December 2010. For venue information, please see the website of Kansai University, Osaka http://www.kansai-u.ac.jp/English/index-e.htm ACCESS: http://www.kansai-u.ac.jp/English/about_ku/location.html PSJ 13 brings together all the researchers focussed on pragmatics working in a wide range of areas of language research and provides a forum for interdisciplinary discussion where participants can discuss their work with other people from both theoretical and applied backgrounds. Continuing an established tradition, this year's meeting has attracted the submission of a number of outstanding papers from leading universities in Japan and abroad (US, UK, France, China, Chinene Taipei and other Asian countries). Please, visit http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/psj4 for details on the meeting program. We will have 28 oral presentations(8 spoken in English and 20 in Japanese), 9 poster presentations, 2 workshops(one is on Humors in Western culture and the other is on Grammar in Social Interaction: Exploring Possibilities of Conversation Analysis), one symposium(Exploring Pragmatics from Functional Perspectives), and one prenary lecture. We are particularly delighted to welcome Dr Malcom Coulthard of Aston University as this year's plenary speaker. For more information on his plenary talk, please see the following title and our website: The Official Version: on the relation between what was said to the police and what was officially recorded We will also have a symposium done by one outstanding Japanese functional linguist, and two conversational analysts, titled Exploring Pragmatics from Functional Perspectives. Unfortunately, although we do not supply any accommodation to the participants at the time of the meeting, we are willing to assist you to find an reasonable hotel(approx. more than 10,000 yen, 100 US dollars per person one night here in Japan) in the heart of Osaka city if you like. All the registrations are done by on-site registration, whose fees are 2,000 yen (appox. 20 US dollars) for members and 3,000 yen (approx. 30 US dollars), and subscription fees are 5,000 yen (approx. 50 US dollars) for non- students and 4,000 yen (approx. 40 US dollars). We are looking forward to seeing you at the meeting. Hiroaki Tanaka Secretary General, PSJ Kyoto Institute of Technology Masa-aki Yamanashi President, PSJ Kyoto University Local Committee Eiichi Yamamoto, Kansai University Organizing Committee Kairi Igarashi, Ryukoku University Tetsuharu Koyama, Kyoto Notre Dame University Mitsuyo Suzuki, Tokyo Women's Medical University Hideo Tominaga, Unbiversity of Hyogo Shunichiro Nagatomo, Kansai Gaidai University Yoshihiro Nishimitsu, Kobe University (Emeritus) Shigehiro Haruki, Kinki University Isao Higashimori, Ryukoku University Tohru Hiratsuka, Kyoto Sangyo University Yukiko Moriyam, Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts Haruhiko Yamaguchi, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies Hajime Nozawa, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies Sachiko Takagi, Osaka Prefecture University Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 21-Nov-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.