The 16th International Pragmatics Conference will be held at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 9-14 June 2019.

Conference chair: Winnie CHENG (Professor,  Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Other Local Site Committee members: Kathleen AHRENS (Professor, Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Aditi BHATIA (Associate Professor, Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), CHEN Xinren (Assistant Dean, School of Foreign Studies, Nanjing University, China; President of China Pragmatics Association), Louise CUMMINGS (Professor,  Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), HO Chung Kwong Victor (Assistant Professor, Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Janet HO (Senior Lecturer, Department of English, Lingnan University), Brian KING (Assistant Professor, Department of English, City University of Hong Kong), Hans J. LADEGAARD (Professor & Head, Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), LAM Phoenix W. Y. (Assistant Professor, Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Carmen LEE (Associate Professor, Department of English, The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Cynthia F K LEE (Associate Professor, Centre for Applied English Studies, University of Hong Kong), Olga A. ZAYTS (Associate Professor, School of English, The University of Hong Kong), Catherine LAW (Marketing Manager, Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) 

Other members of the International Conference Committee: Nana Aba Appiah AMFO (Accra, Ghana), Charles ANTAKI (Loughborough, UK), Diana BOXER (Gainesville, USA), Frank BRISARD (Antwerp, Belgium), Anita FETZER (Augsburg, Germany), Pilar GARCES-CONEJOS BLITVICH (Charlotte, USA), Hartmut HABERLAND (Roskilde, Denmark), Michael HAUGH (Brisbane, Australia), Janet HOLMES (Wellington, New Zealand), Sachiko IDE (Tokyo, Japan), Cornelia ILIE (Malmö, Sweden), Dennis KURZON (Haifa, Israel), Sophia MARMARIDOU (Athens, Greece), Rosina MARQUEZ-REITER (Guildford, UK), Michael MEEUWIS (Ghent, Belgium), Jacob MEY (Odense, Denmark), Melissa MOYER (Barcelona, Spain), Neal NORRICK (Saarbrücken, Germany), Tsuyoshi ONO (Edmonton, Canada), Salvador PONS BORDERÍA (Valencia, Spain), Catrin RHYS (Belfast, Northern Ireland), Tuija VIRTANEN (Åbo, Finland), John WILSON (Belfast, Northern Ireland)

 

As on earlier occasions, the conference is open to all topics relevant to the field of linguistic pragmatics, broadly conceived as the interdisciplinary (cognitive, social, cultural) science of language use.

SPECIAL THEME: Pragmatics of the Margins (read more on the theme in the file below, or click the link).

Go to the call for papers now. The first deadline is already of 1 June 2018.

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Pragmatics of the margins PDF (23.06 KB)		Administration	22/01/2018