19th International Pragmatics Conference
Short Title: IPrA2025

Date: 22-Jun-2025 - 27-Jun-2025
Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Contact: Jef Verschueren
Contact Email: [email protected]
Meeting URL: https://pragmatics.international/page/Brisbane2025

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics

Meeting Description:

The is the 19th edition of the International Pragmatics Conferences organized by the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA; https://pragmatics.international).

Special theme: PRAGMATICS IN ACTION
The aim of this conference is to bring the notion of action back to the forefront of pragmatics, to encourage cross-fertilization of ideas and approaches across the many (sub)disciplines with which pragmatics engages, and to demonstrate the difference that a pragmatics in action can make in the world. Given the central importance of action to pragmatics we do not envisage this so much as being a special topic or focus for the conference, but rather as a theme that is intended to help consolidate and unite pragmatics, as well as pushing it forward in exciting new directions that demonstrate its real world relevance and importance.

As on all earlier occasions, all topics are welcome that are relevant to the field of linguistic pragmatics in its widest sense as the interdisciplinary science of language use.

There are in fact TWO DEADLINES
- Deadline for panel proposals (see below): 15 June 2024 (midnight CEST)
- Contributions to accepted panels (see below), and submissions for posters and lectures must be sent in by 1 November 2024 (midnight CET)

The conference will be preceded by WORKSHOPS on Saturday 21 and Sunday morning.

PLENARY EVENTS:
In addition to the Presidential Address (IPrA President Marina Sbisà) and the plenary lectures to be delivered by the recipients of the John. J. Gumperz Lifetime Achievement Award (for which all IPrA members can nominate candidates until 15 June 2024) and an Innovation Award, the following plenary speakers are being scheduled (titles to be announced):
• Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig (Indiana University)
• Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)
• Melisa Stevanovic (Tampere University)
• Jef Verschueren (University of Antwerp)
• Chaoqun Xie (Zhejiang International Studies University)

Go to the conference website to see the PROGRAM STRUCTURE (https://pragmatics.international/page/Program2025).