Fw: final call: 9th International Pragmatics Conference

THE ABSTRACTS DEADLINE HAS BEEN MOVED FROM 15 OCTOBER 2004 TO 1 NOVEMBER = 2004. No further extensions will be possible! The 9TH INTERNATIONAL PRAGMATICS CONFERENCE will be held on 10-15 July = 2005 at the Riva del Garda Congressi conference center = (www.palacongressi.it ), RIVA DEL GARDA, ITALY=20 For the full call for papers, go to the IPrA website at www.ipra.be=20 Abstracts submission is entirely web-based. Just visit the site and = follow the instructions. CONFERENCE CHAIR: Marina SBISA (Univ. of Trieste; sbisama(a)units.it )=20 LOCAL SITE COMMITTEE: The other members of the Local Site Committee are: = Claudia BIANCHI (Univ. of Genova); Paolo BOUQUET (Univ. of Trento); = Claudia CAFFI (Univ. of Genova); Alessandra FASULO (Univ. of Roma 'La = Sapienza'); Roberta FERRARIO (Univ. of Trento); Franca ORLETTI (Univ. of = Roma Tre); Luigi PERISSINOTTO (Univ. Ca Foscari of Venezia); Fabio = PIANESI (Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Trento); = Oliviero STOCK (Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, = Trento); Stefano ZANOBINI (Univ. of Trento). INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE: In addition to the members of the = Local Site Committee, the International Conference Committee includes: = Karin AIJMER (Univ. of G=F6teborg); Jens ALLWOOD (Univ. of G=F6teborg); = Charles ANTAKI (Loughborough Univ.);=20 Walter DE MULDER (Univ. of Antwerp; IPrA Editor); Helmut GRUBER (Univ. = of Vienna; IPrA Editor); John GUMPERZ (Univ. of California, Santa = Barbara; IPrA President 1986-1990); Monica HELLER (Univ. of Toronto); = Andreas JUCKER (Justus Liebig Univ. Giessen; IPrA Treasurer); Sophia = MARMARIDOU (Univ. of Athens; IPrA Editor); Bonnie McELHINNY (Univ. of = Toronto); Jacob MEY (Odense Univ.); Jan-Ola =D6STMAN (Univ. of = Helsinki); Ben RAMPTON (King's College London); Anna-Brita STENSTR=D6M = (Univ. of Bergen); Elizabeth TRAUGOTT (Stanford Univ.); Jef VERSCHUEREN = (Univ. of Antwerp; IPrA Secretary General); Yorick WILKS (Univ. of = Sheffield); John WILSON (Univ. of Ulster at Jordanstown). THEMES: As always, the conference will be open to all themes relevant to = the pragmatics of language in its widest sense as an interdisciplinary = cognitive, social, and cultural perspective. In addition, there is a = special theme.=20 SPECIAL THEME: Pragmatics and Philosophy=20 It is both interesting and scientifically productive for pragmatics to = revisit and discuss its philosophical starting points and enduring = presuppositions, as well as its philosophical implications. Various = philosophical problems may benefit from being discussed in a pragmatic = perspective, and philosophy itself as a discourse genre is liable to be = analyzed by a pragmatic approach. The range of themes meant to be = covered by the special topic "Pragmatics and Philosophy" therefore = includes at least:=20 . philosophical heritages of pragmatics: Austin, Grice, Searle, = Wittgenstein, Carnap, pragmatism, phenomenology;=20 . philosophical frameworks for pragmatics: speech act theory, = neo-Gricean and post-Gricean frameworks, theories of meaning as use, = theories of context, pragmatics and hermeneutics, pragmatics and = cultural studies;=20 . overlaps between pragmatics and philosophy: the semantics/pragmatics = interface, indexicals, presupposition, implicature, speech acts, = propositional attitudes, context logics, contextualist epistemology, = intentionality and subjectivity, agency, emotions, rhetoric, personal or = collective identities;=20 . pragmatics of the philosophical discourse genre: analysis of = philosophical discourse, pragmatic approaches to argumentation and = dialogue, pragmatics and the teaching of philosophy.=20 Plenary lectures will include: Rukmini BHAYA NAIR (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India), = Pragmatics, pragmatism & the postcolonial Robyn CARSTON (University College London), Pragmatics: From philosophy = to cognitive science Steven DAVIS (Carleton University, Ottawa), Demonstratives and = understanding Charles GOODWIN (Univ. of California at Los Angeles), Multi-modal action = in discourse Clotilde PONTECORVO (Univ. of Roma 'La Sapienza'), From talking to = reasoning Marina SBISA (Univ. of Trieste), How to read Austin And there will be a plenary session organized by: Paolo BOUQUET (Univ. of Trento) & Oliviero STOCK (IRST), Computational = pragmatics. Guest speaker: Wolfgang WAHLSTER (Universit=E4t des = Saarlandes). CALL FOR PAPERS=20 Abstracts Deadline: 1 November 2004 Two types of paper proposals are invited:=20 1. For single-paper presentations to be included in regular lecture = sessions (20-minute presentations followed by 5 minutes for discussion = and allowing 5 minutes for switching between sessions). Author who wish = to present their paper as a poster, may choose to do so. 2. For panels or multi-paper sessions. Panels take the form of a series = of closely related lectures on a specific topic. They may consist of = one, two or three units of 120 minutes. Within each panel unit an = average of four 20-minute presentations are given consecutively; the = rest of the period may be taken up by an introduction, open discussion, = comments by a discussant or discussants, or any combination of these. = Panels are composed of contributions invited by panel organizers, = combined with individually submitted papers when judged appropriate by = the Conference Committee in consultation with the panel organizers. = Typically, written versions or extensive outlines of all panel = contributions should be available to the other contributors before the = conference in order to facilitate discussion.=20 Note that in addition to a panel abstract (to be submitted by the panel = organizers), abstracts for all panel contributions, even when invited = directly by panel organizers, have to be sent in individually (following = the single-paper presentations option) and will be reviewed individually = and anonymously.=20 For detailed instructions, go to www.ipra.be Contact: info(a)ipra.be=20