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  • Jef Verschueren, 8th International Pragmatics Conference

    Message 1: 8th International Pragmatics Conference

     Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 23:18:17 +0200
    From: Jef Verschueren <jef.verschuerenipra.be>
    Subject: 8th International Pragmatics Conference


    You are invited to the 8th INTERNATIONAL PRAGMATICS CONFERENCE of the International Pragmatics Association

    which will be held as planned in

    Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    13-18 July 2003

    SPECIAL THEME: Linguistic pluralism : policies, practices and pragmatics

    The invited speakers are: Susan GAL (Dept. of Anthropology, Univ. of Chicago), Language ideologies and the practices of power: "Reading between the lines" during the Cold War

    Jocelyn L�TOURNEAU (D�partement d'histoire, Univ. Laval, Qu�bec), La langue comme lieu de m�moire et lieu de passage / Language as realm of memory and passage

    Lorenza MONDADA (Sciences du Langage, Univ. Lumi�re, Lyon, France), Scientific knowledge as an interactional accomplishment: On the analysis of research groups in international networks

    Eni ORLANDI (Univ. Estadual de Campinas, Brazil), Le Discours en tant qu�objet sp�cifique dans l�histoire des Sciences du Langage /Discourse as a specific object in the history of Language Sciences

    Dan SPERBER (CNRS, Paris, France) Relevance theory: Pragmatics and beyond

    Ruth WODAK (Inst. f�r Sprachwissenschaft, Univ. of Vienna, Austria), European language policies and European identities There will be panel discussions on the following topics:

    Advance reduced rate registration is possible until June 1, 2003. Details about the conference at: http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/

    Other topics to be covered , inside or outside the boundaries of the special theme, include: - Current issues in interlanguage pragmatics - Discursive approaches to cultural comparison: China, France, Greece, Japan, U.K., U.S.A. - Ethnographic perspectives on schooling in global times - Ideologies and language practices in immigrant services--Indigenous language stability and change - Language and style as indexes to social identity - Language ideologies in contexts of immigration - Languages and emotions: A cross-linguistic perspective - Languaging and language practices: Multilingual Turkish speakers in North Western Europe - L'image des langues moniritaires - Politics of language and the linguist - The intersection of institutional policies and local ideologies: Language socialization practices in multilingual communities - Approaches to genre - Approaches to spoken interaction - Argument cultures - Class, identity and literacy: Ethnographic and discourse-analytic perspectives - Court trial discourse past and present - Current issues in the diachronic micropragmatics of the Romance languages - 'Doing teaching' inside and outside of the classroom: A conversation analytic perspective - Emotive communication: Some observations from 'expressionless' Japanese - Exploring the relationship among culture, interaction and language: Contributions from Japanese - From the speaker's point of view: Discourse of the elderly in Japan and U.S. - Gender in standard and regional Japanese - Historical discourse pragmatics - Institutional order and facing social and cultural change: Interactive language in the internet: Written, spoken, or a third kind? - Key concepts in the co-construction of meaning in dialogue - Lexical markers of common grounds - Linguistic resources for organizing talk-in-interaction: referential expressions and topic-related constructions - Mainstream American media: Playin' in/with the dark - Making arguments in conversation, - Masculinity in the plural: Discourse analyses of men's identity performances - New directions in the study of institutional interaction - Nouveaux d�veloppements dans les recherches sur les relations de discours et leurs marqueurs - Po(i)nts de liaisons, lignes de fractures: Entre la langue maternelle et les langues autres - Positioning self and others & being positioned: The construction of self and identity in discourse - Pragmatic development in cultural perspective - Pragmatics and communication impairment - Prosodie et discours/discourse and prosody - Relevance and lexical pragmatics - Talk and social development: Studies in developmental pragmatics - Temporality in post-Gricean pragmatics - The analysis of action and discourse in the workplace - The politics of educational development: Literacy and discursive practices - The pragmatics of metarepresentation in a cross-linguistic perspective - Toward a reconceptualization of 'multicompetence' --Turn continuation in cross-linguistic perspective - Understanding actions - Basil Bernstein and pragmatics: Class, codes and language - Bourdieu and ethnography, - The pragmatics of institutional discourse: A panel honoring the work of Aaron V. Cicourel - A pragmatic approach to keywords: Extending and assessing the work of Raymond Williams

    Jef Verschueren IPrA Research Center University of Antwerp Universiteitsplein 1 B-2610 Wilrijk Belgium tel. +32-3-8202773, fax & tel. +32-3-2305574 jef.verschuerenua.ac.be

    also visit the IPrA website at http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/