Full Title: Experimental Pragmatics 2025
Short Title: XPrag 2025

Date: 17-Sep-2025 - 19-Sep-2025
Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Napoleon Katsos
Meeting Email: [email protected]

Linguistic Field(s): Clinical Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics

Call for Papers:

We are happy to announce that the abstract submission portal for XPRAG 2025 is now open on OpenReview. The abstract submission deadline will be April 14th 2025.

We invite submissions of abstracts from any area of experimental pragmatics, including from a developmental, clinical, neuroscientific or processing perspective as well as formal/computational approaches to pragmatics. We also invite submissions from researchers in philosophy, experimental psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, anthropology, and other cognitive sciences that use experimental methods to investigate semantic and pragmatic theories, as well as communication more generally.

Submissions from first authors who are PhD researchers or early post-doctoral researchers (no more than 2 years from award of PhD) will be considered for the Sam Glucksberg Student Prize granted to the best presentation (please tick the relevant box on OpenReview)

Important links
Conference Website: https://www.xprag2025.com
Information for submitting abstracts: https://www.xprag2025.com/call-for-papers
Abstract submission portal: https://openreview.net/group?id=XPrag/2025/Conference
Contact: [email protected]

Please note that submitting authors need to have or to create a profile on OpenReview. Whereas new profiles with an institutional email will be activated automatically, new profiles created without an institutional email will go through a moderation process that can take up to two weeks. This is a feature of OpenReview which we cannot change. Please create your OpenReview account now.

*Indicative registration fees for students: £150 including coffee breaks and lunch every day
**Researchers from low-income countries whose abstract is selected for the conference and who struggle to meet the cost of registration fees will be invited to email the conference organising team, once the results from the review process are known.

Important Dates:
Call for Abstracts Circulated: 13th of January, 2025
Abstract Submission Opens: 10th of March, 2025
Abstract Submission Deadline: Midnight (23:59 CET) on Monday, 14th April 2025
Notification of Acceptance: Expected by Monday, 26th May 2025
Registration Opens: 19th of May 2025

Please feel free to share this Call for Abstracts with colleagues and email lists of interest.

Meeting Description:

This is the twentieth anniversary of the Experimental Pragmatics series of international conferences which started in 2005 with a conference that was held in Cambridge (UK) that brought together the nascent community of researchers from philosophy, experimental psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, anthropology, and other cognitive sciences. Two years later, another was organized in Berlin and thus a biennial tradition was born. Since then, XPrag has taken place in Lyon, Barcelona, Utrecht, Chicago, Köln, Edinburgh, Pavia and Paris. National-level 'XPrag' events series have taken place in the UK, Germany, and Italy.

In 2025 XPrag will be taking place in Cambridge again, with a fantastic line-up of invited speakers and a celebratory character for the success of the conference series and the discipline that underpins it.

Key dates:
- Call for Abstracts Circulated: 13th of January, 2025
- Abstract Submission Opens: 3rd of March, 2025
- Abstract Submission Deadline: Midnight (23:59 CET) on Monday, 7th April 2025
- Notification of Acceptance: Expected by Monday, 19th May 2025
- Registration Opens: 12th of May 2025
- Conference dates: 17th – 19th September 2025

To stay up to date with all the latest news and updates about XPrag 2025, we kindly invite you to follow our Facebook page and visit our official website:

Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61566371289092)

Conference website (https://sites.google.com/view/xprag-2025/home)

We’ll be posting important information regarding the conference, including calls for papers, speaker announcements, and registration details, so be sure to follow us!

We are excited that the following invited speakers have confirmed their participation:
Prof. Manuel Bohn, Leuphana University
Prof. Richard Breheny, University College London
Prof. Sue Fletcher Watson, University of Edinburgh
Prof. Robert Hawkins, University of Wisconsin
Prof. Jennifer Hu, Harvard University
Prof. Judith Tonhauser, University of Stuttgart

We’re looking forward to receiving your abstracts !

The XPRAG XI organising committee
Napoleon Katsos, Mireia Cabanes Calabuig, Joe Cowan, Nina Haket, Dimitrios Kastanas, Cecile Larralde, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Holly Sutherland, Songqiao Xie