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International Pragmatics Association University of Antwerp, Linguistics (GER) Universiteitsplein 1, B-2601 Wih-ijkBelgium
4th International Pragmatics Conference Kobe, Japan, July 25-30, 1993 Local organizing committee: Chairman: Paul 0. Takahara, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies Members: Masayoshi Shibatani, Kobe University; Seisaku Kawakami, Osaka University; Sachiko Ide, Japan Women’s University; Yoshihiro Nishimitsu, Kobe University; Masa-aki Yamanashi, Kyoto University; Kensei Sugayama, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies IPrA conference committee: Michel de Fornel, CNET-CNRS; Bruce Fraser, Boston University; David Good, Cambridge University; John Gumperz, University of California at Berkeley; Marjorie Harness Goodwin, University of South Carolina; Ferenc Kiefer, Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Chungmin Lee, Seoul University; Sandra Thompson, University of California at Santa Barbara; Amparo Tuson, Autonomous University of Barcelona; Jef Verschueren, University of Antwerp Conference topics Whereas the 1st International Pragmatics Conference (Viareggio, 1985) was centered around a metatheoretical question concerning the status of pragmatics as a potentially coherent, though interdisciplinary, perspective on language and communication, the 2nd IPC (Antwerp, 1987) addressed the more practical issue of intercultural and international communication. The 3rd IPC (Barcelona, 1990) returned to a more theoretical question: the interdependence of social and cognitive approaches to language use. For the 4th International Pragmatics Conference, a special topic has been chosen which combines the practical concerns addressed in Antwerp with the theoretical question posed in Barcelona. That special topic is Cognition
and Communication
037%2166/92/$05.00
0 1992 - Elsevier
in an Intercultural Science
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Context B.V. All rights reserved
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This special topic may be approached theoretically, with reference to session topics 1.1 to 1.3, or in terms of specific areas of application (2.1 to 2.5): 1. Theoretical issues 1.1. The role of cognitive styles in communication 1.2. Communicative strategies and cognitive processing 1.3. The establishment and maintenance of cultural identity 2. Areas of application 2.1. Foreign language teaching 2.2. Natural language processing 2.3. Language policy 2.4. International communication and politics 2.5. English as an international language In addition to the special topic sessions, there will be a number of events representing topics of general interest. In principle, any issue approached from a pragmatic angle (where pragmatics is seen in its broadest sense as the cognitive, social, and cultural study of language and communication) may be dealt with. However, there will be a clear division of labor between the different types of events. Event types Plenary lectures: Five prominent scholars will be invited to give plenary lectures on a diversity of topics of general interest. (The plenary speakers will be announced in the first circular, to be distributed in March 1992.) Lecture sessions: Regular lecture sessions (20-minute presentations followed by 5 minutes for discussion and allowing 5 minutes for switching between sessions) will be reserved for papers which are directly related to the special topic of the conference or any of its subtopics. The Conference Committee reserves the right to place individually submitted abstracts, the quality of which would normally make them acceptable for presentation, in poster sessions (as opposed to the lecture sessions) on the basis of their relative distance from the special topic. Poster sessions: Poster sessions, for which ample time will be reserved in order to guarantee good opportunities for discussions, will be largely devoted to papers of general interest. Individually submitted papers which are less directly related to the special topic will be placed here, though it is also possible to submit papers directly for the poster sessions. (All abstracts, including those for poster presentations, will be printed in the set of abstracts provided at the beginning of the conference!)
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Panels:
Panels take the form of a series of closely related lectures (with the same duration as for the lecture sessions) on a specific topic - which does not have to be directly related to the special topic of the conference - followed by a 30-minute slot during which one or more discussants present a 15minute reaction to the papers, and 15 minutes are reserved for general discussion. The organizers of such panels are responsible for submitting the complete set of abstracts before the regular abstracts, and (in case of acceptance) for the further preparation of the event (which will involve, for instance, making sure that the discussants receive drafts of the complete papers before the conference). Abstracts Five copies of your abstract (or of the set of abstracts in case you are proposing a panel) should be sent before November Ist 1992 to the following
address: IPrA Secretariat, P.O. Box 33, B-2018 Antwerp 11, Belgium. All abstracts should contain (in this order): Full name, full address, title of your presentation, and a one-page summary of your topic, approach, and major conclusions. If sent by telefax (either to number +32 3 8202244 or number + 32 3 2305574) or by e-mail (ipra@?ccu.uia.ac.be), they should be followed by a hard copy, the print quality of which is suitable for publication in the set of abstracts. Registration
Registration information will be included in the first circular to be distributed in March 1992. Prospective participants will have to register directly with the local Conference Secretariat at the following address: 4th International Pragmatics Conference, Secretariat, c/o Kensei Sugayama, Department of English, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, 9-1, Gakuenhigashi-machi, Nishi-ku, Kobe 651-21, Japan. Tel. +81 78 794 8111 ext. 8179; fax +81 78 792 9020. The preregistration fee for IPrA members will be approximately Yl5,000.-(i.e. US $117,-- at the current exchange rate [US $1 = Yl28.-- on Dec. 20th 19911). Copies of the first circular may be requested either from the IPrA Secretariat or from the Conference Secretariat. Travel and accommodation
Negotiations have started Europe and North America. approximately US $60.-- per niently located for excursions
to secure favorable rates for air travel from Hotel accommodation will be available from night (single room average). Kobe is conveto Kyoto, Nara, and Osaka.
FORTHCOMING
MEETINGS
THE REALITY OF LINGUISTIC RULES - The 21st Annual Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium April lo-12 1992, Milwaukee, WI, USA
University
of
This conference will address the question of the nature - in fact the existence - of linguistic rules. Are such rules best seen simply as convenient tools for the description of languages, or are they actually invoked, as a guide to performance, by individual language users? This issue can be addressed from a number of linguistic, psychological, and philosophical perspectives. Deadline abstracts: Friday, November 1, 1991 Invited speakers: John Du Bois (University of California at Santa Barbara), Janet Dean Fodor (City University of New York), John Goldsmith (University of Chicago), William Labov (University of Pennsylvania), Brian MacWhinney (Carnegie Mellon University), Steven Pinker, (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Contact: Pamela Downing, Department of English and Comparative Literature, P.O. Box 413, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA. Tel.: 1-414-2296794. E-mail: [email protected] RELC REGIONAL SEMINAR TION IN A FAST-CHANGING April 20-23 1992, Singapore
ON LANGUAGE WORLD
Contact: The Director (attn. Seminar Secretariat), guage Centre, 30 Orange Grove Road, Singapore pore. INTERNATIONAL PHILOLOGY April 1992, Zurich,
CONGRESS
OF
TEACHER
EDUCA-
SEAMEO Regional Lan1025, Republic of Singa-
ROMANCE
LINGUISTIC
AND
Switzerland
Contact: Wolfgang Raible, Romanisches Seminar mannplatz 3, D-W 7800 Freiburg/Br., Germany. EIGHTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE FOR THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS June 2-3 1992, Ramat Gan, Israel
OF THE
der
Universitat,
ISRAEL
Werth-
ASSOCIATION
Contact: Anita Mittwoch, Department of English, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 91095, Israel. E-mail: [email protected] or David Gil, Department of English, University of Haifa, Haifa, 31999, Israel. E-mail: rhle813Ghaifauvm.bitnet
IPrA new sercice
TRANSLATION AND THE EUROPEAN June 22-23 1992, Biskops Arnii, Sweden
199
COMMUNITIES
Papers are invited on the following issues: a plurilingual community and its impact on the national languages; terminological support and language control; the translation market after 1992; translation aids in a multilingual environment. Deadline for draft papers: January 15 1992. Contact: EUROFAT AB, Skeppsbron 26, S-111 30 Stockholm, Sweden. Tel.: + 46 8789 66 83. Telex: 15 440 kval s. Fax: + 46 8 796 96 39. E-mail: [email protected] SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL PHONOLOGY TERNATIONAL MORPHOLOGY MEETING July 4-9 1992, Krems, Austria Phonologietagung, Contact: A-1090 Wien, Austria.
Institut
TENTH INTERNATIONAL July 6-9 1992, Paris, France
HUMOR
MEETING
fur Sprachwissenschaft,
& FIFTH
IN-
Berggasse
11,
CONGRESS
Theme: The world of laughter and the laughter of the world in Paris. Abstracts deadline: October 31 1991. Contact: Judith Stora-Sandor, Department de Litterature G&r&ale et Comparee, Universite Paris VIII, 2 rue de la LibertC, 93526 Saint-Denis Cedex 02. France. Tel.: + 33 49 406503. Fax: + 33 48 210446. FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL TIONAL LINGUISTICS (COLING-92) July 23-28 1992, Nantes, France
CONFERENCE
ON
COMPUTA-
Covers all topics in computational linguistics. A special session on language industry is planned. Abstracts deadline: November 1 1991. Contact: A. Zampolli, Universitl di Pisa, ILC, via della Faggiola 32, I-56100 Pisa, Italy.
International Pragmatics Association University of Antwerp, Linguistics (GER) Universiteitsplein 1, B-2601 Wih-ijkBelgium
4th International Pragmatics Conference Kobe, Japan, July 25-30, 1993 Local organizing committee: Chairman: Paul 0. Takahara, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies Members: Masayoshi Shibatani, Kobe University; Seisaku Kawakami, Osaka University; Sachiko Ide, Japan Women’s University; Yoshihiro Nishimitsu, Kobe University; Masa-aki Yamanashi, Kyoto University; Kensei Sugayama, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies IPrA conference committee: Michel de Fornel, CNET-CNRS; Bruce Fraser, Boston University; David Good, Cambridge University; John Gumperz, University of California at Berkeley; Marjorie Harness Goodwin, University of South Carolina; Ferenc Kiefer, Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Chungmin Lee, Seoul University; Sandra Thompson, University of California at Santa Barbara; Amparo Tuson, Autonomous University of Barcelona; Jef Verschueren, University of Antwerp Conference topics Whereas the 1st International Pragmatics Conference (Viareggio, 1985) was centered around a metatheoretical question concerning the status of pragmatics as a potentially coherent, though interdisciplinary, perspective on language and communication, the 2nd IPC (Antwerp, 1987) addressed the more practical issue of intercultural and international communication. The 3rd IPC (Barcelona, 1990) returned to a more theoretical question: the interdependence of social and cognitive approaches to language use. For the 4th International Pragmatics Conference, a special topic has been chosen which combines the practical concerns addressed in Antwerp with the theoretical question posed in Barcelona. That special topic is Cognition
and Communication
037%2166/92/$05.00
0 1992 - Elsevier
in an Intercultural Science
Publishers
Context B.V. All rights reserved
196
IPrA news sewice
This special topic may be approached theoretically, with reference to session topics 1.1 to 1.3, or in terms of specific areas of application (2.1 to 2.5): 1. Theoretical issues 1.1. The role of cognitive styles in communication 1.2. Communicative strategies and cognitive processing 1.3. The establishment and maintenance of cultural identity 2. Areas of application 2.1. Foreign language teaching 2.2. Natural language processing 2.3. Language policy 2.4. International communication and politics 2.5. English as an international language In addition to the special topic sessions, there will be a number of events representing topics of general interest. In principle, any issue approached from a pragmatic angle (where pragmatics is seen in its broadest sense as the cognitive, social, and cultural study of language and communication) may be dealt with. However, there will be a clear division of labor between the different types of events. Event types Plenary lectures: Five prominent scholars will be invited to give plenary lectures on a diversity of topics of general interest. (The plenary speakers will be announced in the first circular, to be distributed in March 1992.) Lecture sessions: Regular lecture sessions (20-minute presentations followed by 5 minutes for discussion and allowing 5 minutes for switching between sessions) will be reserved for papers which are directly related to the special topic of the conference or any of its subtopics. The Conference Committee reserves the right to place individually submitted abstracts, the quality of which would normally make them acceptable for presentation, in poster sessions (as opposed to the lecture sessions) on the basis of their relative distance from the special topic. Poster sessions: Poster sessions, for which ample time will be reserved in order to guarantee good opportunities for discussions, will be largely devoted to papers of general interest. Individually submitted papers which are less directly related to the special topic will be placed here, though it is also possible to submit papers directly for the poster sessions. (All abstracts, including those for poster presentations, will be printed in the set of abstracts provided at the beginning of the conference!)
IPrA news seroice
197
Panels:
Panels take the form of a series of closely related lectures (with the same duration as for the lecture sessions) on a specific topic - which does not have to be directly related to the special topic of the conference - followed by a 30-minute slot during which one or more discussants present a 15minute reaction to the papers, and 15 minutes are reserved for general discussion. The organizers of such panels are responsible for submitting the complete set of abstracts before the regular abstracts, and (in case of acceptance) for the further preparation of the event (which will involve, for instance, making sure that the discussants receive drafts of the complete papers before the conference). Abstracts Five copies of your abstract (or of the set of abstracts in case you are proposing a panel) should be sent before November Ist 1992 to the following
address: IPrA Secretariat, P.O. Box 33, B-2018 Antwerp 11, Belgium. All abstracts should contain (in this order): Full name, full address, title of your presentation, and a one-page summary of your topic, approach, and major conclusions. If sent by telefax (either to number +32 3 8202244 or number + 32 3 2305574) or by e-mail (ipra@?ccu.uia.ac.be), they should be followed by a hard copy, the print quality of which is suitable for publication in the set of abstracts. Registration
Registration information will be included in the first circular to be distributed in March 1992. Prospective participants will have to register directly with the local Conference Secretariat at the following address: 4th International Pragmatics Conference, Secretariat, c/o Kensei Sugayama, Department of English, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, 9-1, Gakuenhigashi-machi, Nishi-ku, Kobe 651-21, Japan. Tel. +81 78 794 8111 ext. 8179; fax +81 78 792 9020. The preregistration fee for IPrA members will be approximately Yl5,000.-(i.e. US $117,-- at the current exchange rate [US $1 = Yl28.-- on Dec. 20th 19911). Copies of the first circular may be requested either from the IPrA Secretariat or from the Conference Secretariat. Travel and accommodation
Negotiations have started Europe and North America. approximately US $60.-- per niently located for excursions
to secure favorable rates for air travel from Hotel accommodation will be available from night (single room average). Kobe is conveto Kyoto, Nara, and Osaka.
FORTHCOMING
MEETINGS
THE REALITY OF LINGUISTIC RULES - The 21st Annual Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium April lo-12 1992, Milwaukee, WI, USA
University
of
This conference will address the question of the nature - in fact the existence - of linguistic rules. Are such rules best seen simply as convenient tools for the description of languages, or are they actually invoked, as a guide to performance, by individual language users? This issue can be addressed from a number of linguistic, psychological, and philosophical perspectives. Deadline abstracts: Friday, November 1, 1991 Invited speakers: John Du Bois (University of California at Santa Barbara), Janet Dean Fodor (City University of New York), John Goldsmith (University of Chicago), William Labov (University of Pennsylvania), Brian MacWhinney (Carnegie Mellon University), Steven Pinker, (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Contact: Pamela Downing, Department of English and Comparative Literature, P.O. Box 413, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA. Tel.: 1-414-2296794. E-mail: [email protected] RELC REGIONAL SEMINAR TION IN A FAST-CHANGING April 20-23 1992, Singapore
ON LANGUAGE WORLD
Contact: The Director (attn. Seminar Secretariat), guage Centre, 30 Orange Grove Road, Singapore pore. INTERNATIONAL PHILOLOGY April 1992, Zurich,
CONGRESS
OF
TEACHER
EDUCA-
SEAMEO Regional Lan1025, Republic of Singa-
ROMANCE
LINGUISTIC
AND
Switzerland
Contact: Wolfgang Raible, Romanisches Seminar mannplatz 3, D-W 7800 Freiburg/Br., Germany. EIGHTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE FOR THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS June 2-3 1992, Ramat Gan, Israel
OF THE
der
Universitat,
ISRAEL
Werth-
ASSOCIATION
Contact: Anita Mittwoch, Department of English, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 91095, Israel. E-mail: [email protected] or David Gil, Department of English, University of Haifa, Haifa, 31999, Israel. E-mail: rhle813Ghaifauvm.bitnet
IPrA new sercice
TRANSLATION AND THE EUROPEAN June 22-23 1992, Biskops Arnii, Sweden
199
COMMUNITIES
Papers are invited on the following issues: a plurilingual community and its impact on the national languages; terminological support and language control; the translation market after 1992; translation aids in a multilingual environment. Deadline for draft papers: January 15 1992. Contact: EUROFAT AB, Skeppsbron 26, S-111 30 Stockholm, Sweden. Tel.: + 46 8789 66 83. Telex: 15 440 kval s. Fax: + 46 8 796 96 39. E-mail: [email protected] SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL PHONOLOGY TERNATIONAL MORPHOLOGY MEETING July 4-9 1992, Krems, Austria Phonologietagung, Contact: A-1090 Wien, Austria.
Institut
TENTH INTERNATIONAL July 6-9 1992, Paris, France
HUMOR
MEETING
fur Sprachwissenschaft,
& FIFTH
IN-
Berggasse
11,
CONGRESS
Theme: The world of laughter and the laughter of the world in Paris. Abstracts deadline: October 31 1991. Contact: Judith Stora-Sandor, Department de Litterature G&r&ale et Comparee, Universite Paris VIII, 2 rue de la LibertC, 93526 Saint-Denis Cedex 02. France. Tel.: + 33 49 406503. Fax: + 33 48 210446. FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL TIONAL LINGUISTICS (COLING-92) July 23-28 1992, Nantes, France
CONFERENCE
ON
COMPUTA-
Covers all topics in computational linguistics. A special session on language industry is planned. Abstracts deadline: November 1 1991. Contact: A. Zampolli, Universitl di Pisa, ILC, via della Faggiola 32, I-56100 Pisa, Italy.