Symposium on Bridging Pragmatic Competence and Interactional Competence

Date: 20-Jun-2025 - 20-Jun-2025
Location: The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia
Contact: Chilmeg Elden
Contact Email: [email protected]
Meeting URL: https://languages-cultures.uq.edu.au/event/10930/symposium-bridging-pragmatic-competence-and-interactional-competence

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Pragmatics

We would like to warmly welcome you to the University of Queensland for this one-day symposium on “Bridging Pragmatic Competence and Interactional Competence” on Friday 20 June, 2025. Advancements in the conceptualisation of pragmatic competence and interactional competence, as well as the empirical studies conducted under these frameworks in the recent years, have significantly deepened our understanding of how L2 learners navigate the dynamic, multifaced, and fluid nature of talk-in-interaction. While these models have evolved with distinct theoretical orientations, there has been a growing recognition that pragmatic competence and interactional competence are significantly intertwined and overlapping. This symposium seeks to create a dialogue that bridges the divide and further highlight the reciprocal and complementary nature of pragmatic competence and interactional competence, and how they can be more effectively integrated into both theoretical models and practical applications for L2 acquisition, teaching, and assessment.

The full symposium program is now available on the event webpage: https://languages-cultures.uq.edu.au/event/bpcics2025