The full provisional program for the 16th International Pragmatics Conference is now available at https://ipra2019.exordo.com. That site gives you full access to the latest version of the program, fully searchable, with links to all abstracts. For a downloadable pdf-version of the provisional program (as of 5 April 2019), see below.

In addition to the planned panels, lectures, and posters, invited plenary lectures will be presented by:

• Eric ANCHIMBE, Universität Bayreuth (website), working title Postcolonial pragmatics and the discourses of the margins
• Jonathan CULPEPER, Lancaster University (website), working title (Im)politeness and reciprocity
• Louise CUMMINGS, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (website), working title The role of pragmatics in the diagnosis of dementia
• GU Yueguo, The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing (website), working title A multimodal corpus-based study of pre-speech children, autism and Alzheimer's disease: Substantiating Morris' lost behavioral semiotic pragmatics 
• Meredith MARRA, Victoria University of Wellington (website), working title Fancy fence work: Harnessing the affordances of the periphery
• Marina TERKOURAFI, Leiden University (website), working title The frame-based approach to politeness: Rationale and future directions

More tentative titles to be added soon.

On Sunday morning, 9 June 2019, a number of pragmatics/linguistics associations from the East Asian region will organize a pre-conference session on East Asian Pragmatics: History and development

Item Name		Posted By	Date Posted
Provisional program as of 5 April 2019 PDF (1.7 MB)		Administration	5/04/2019