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The current communication pattern worldwide is marked by two key features: digital connectivity and civic unrest. Communities co-produce meaning through nuanced, often contested communicative acts that range across generational, cultural, and ideological boundaries. This panel proposes that intercommunity interaction is not merely an exchange of information but a dynamic space of pragmatic negotiation, in which utterances are determined by context, implicature, and social intent (Levinson, 2023)

We are pleased to invite submissions for the panel outlined below. Pragmatics is defined by the International Pragmatics Association鈥攏ow celebrating its 20th conference鈥攁s the 鈥渢he science of language use, in its widest interdisciplinary sense as a functional (i.e. cognitive, social, and cultural) perspective on language and communication鈥� (IPrA webpage, our italics). This reflects the scholarly consensus that pragmatics is a study of communication because 鈥渃ommunication is what language is a

Topics: AI, Robotics, Technology; Anthropological Linguistics and Ethnography; Conversation Analysis/EMCA; Interactional Pragmatics Abstract: Assistants based on large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable uptake as a new medium advertised as conversational partners. They may be marketed as companions (Malfacini, 2025) for therapy (Scholich et al., 2025), used for programming, research, and writing (Haase et al., 2026), and a variety of other purposes. On the surface, such assistant

The Research Workshop on Gender, Youth, and Media in Asia is organized by the Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster (GSRC) at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore. The event will take place from 20 to 22 February 2027 and will include a two-day conference followed by a one-day workshop. The workshop brings together researchers working on gender and sexuality across disciplines such as geography, linguistics, anthropology, communications, and media stu

Lo desen Obrador de Ling眉istica Occitana (OLO10) se tendr脿 a l鈥橧nstitut f眉r Romanistik de l鈥橴niversitat de Viena, 脌ustria, los 19 e 20 de mai de 2027. L鈥橭brador de Ling眉istica Occitana es lo f貌rum que recampa los ling眉istas que trabalhan sus l鈥檕ccitan, dins un esperit d鈥檈scambi e de collaboracion. Las proposicions de comunicacion son a mandar abans lo 31 de geni猫r de 2027 sus EasyAbs (https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/OLO10/) o sus ignasi.planas.villalba@univie.ac.at, en PDF anonimi

We are delighted to invite submissions to the 8th General Conference of the International Language and Law Association (ILLA), to be held at the University of Naples Federico II from 30 June to 2 July 2027. The General Conference will be preceded, on 29 June, by the 6th ILLA Focus Conference on Forensic Linguistics: Language as Evidence. The relationship between language and law is complex, multifaceted, and constantly evolving. It unfolds across a wide range of dimensions, such as legal inte

IPrA 2027 Panel: Handling Different Voices in Science Communication: From linguistic polyphony to artificial agents Kerstin Fischer, Annette Lessm枚llmann & Francois Nemo Current societal challenges require complex solutions, and accordingly, science communication has to resist giving easy answers. Instead, the complexity and polyphony of societal discourse needs to be accounted for and represented while avoiding overwhelming the recipients. This panel integrates two lines of research: On t

We invite contributions to the panel "Narrating inherited trauma: Pragmatic, narrative, and cross-cultural perspectives," to be held as part of the 20th International Pragmatics Conference, Helsinki, Finland, 27 June 鈥� 2 July 2027. Scholars who are considering a contribution are welcome to contact us with a provisional title and a brief description of the proposed paper by September 15, at: Bracha Nir, bnir@univ.haifa.ac.il; Tomoko I. Sakita, tsakita@mail.doshisha.ac.jp. The panel focus

This is a panel at the 20th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA2027) The Pragmatics of 鈥榙oing Family鈥� in Everyday Life Co-organisers: Zhiyi Liu, Valeria Sinkeviciute, Andrea Rodriguez The University of Queensland Family discourse, including interaction between parents and children, siblings and adult (extended) family members, is a complex social phenomenon where social meanings are jointly constructed and negotiated. For several decades now, various aspects of family talk have

This is a panel at the 20th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA2027) The Pragmatics of Doing 鈥榖eing Siblings鈥� in Talk-in-interaction Valeria Sinkeviciute The University of Queensland In interactional studies, it has been observed that, in and through family conversations, children are socialised into and show their understanding of the social order through their enactment of pragmatic and normative behaviours as members of society (e.g. Minks, 2010; see also overviews in Cekaite,

The Pragmatics of Organized Crime and Conflict: Identity, Ritual, and Transnational Mediations Convenors: Takako Kawabata (SOAS University of London) Daniela Cesiri (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) Panel Description: Organized crime groups such as the Italian Mafia, the Japanese Yakuza, and the Hong Kong Triads are not merely criminal enterprises; they are communicative communities sustained through highly ritualized linguistic and semiotic practices. Existing research has shown tha

We invite colleagues examining the interactional accomplishment of intimate relationships at a distance to join us for the panel 鈥淭he Pragmatics of (intimate) relationships at a distance鈥� (panel description below). If you have a relevant contribution, please send a provisional title and an abstract (max. 350 words) to Andrea Rodriguez by 30 September 2026. Participants will then be expected to submit their abstract through the official IPrA 2027 submission platform by 15 October 2026. The

ComputEL-10 will be co-located with the 10th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC 10) in Honolulu, Hawaii. ComputEL-10 and ICDLC 10 do not have joint registration. If you wish to attend ICDLC 10, visit their website: https://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/sites/icldc/. ComputEL-10 explores the interface and intersection of computational linguistics, documentary linguistics, and community-based efforts in language revitalization and reclamation. We encourage submis

The PhD students of the Doctoral Program in Literary and Philological Cultures at Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna are pleased to announce the third edition of the Doctoral Conference of the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies. The conference invites participation from both PhD candidates and early-career researchers. This edition focuses on margins and marginality across the fields of Philology, Literature, Linguistics and Book Cultures. Contributions may explore t

Commercial names are far more than marketing tools: they are condensed narratives that communicate identity, values, memory, aspiration, and cultural positioning in a highly compressed linguistic format . In line with the congress theme 鈥淣ames as condensed narratives,鈥� this session explores how brand names, product names, company names, and other forms of commercial naming function as carriers of economic, social, and cultural meaning across languages and societies. The session welcomes prese

Palabra y silencio se implican mutuamente. Se enlazan en la respiraci贸n, y as铆 tambi茅n conviven en cada parte del lenguaje. Hay silencios propios de los fonemas, de los morfemas, de las palabras y de las oraciones, y el silencio aparece en refranes, en la conversaci贸n y en el discurso p煤blico. De hecho, a la par del desarrollo del lenguaje artificial, en los 煤ltimos a帽os creci贸 tambi茅n el inter茅s acad茅mico por distintas formas de 鈥渟ilencio verbal鈥� (Ephratt 2008, 2016, 2022). En abril de 2025

We are pleased to announce that the 7th ESP Conference will take place at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. The conference will include paper presentations and invited plenary talks. The 7th International ESP Conference welcomes ESP professionals and scholars from across the world to meet in Ankara on November 6-7, 2026, for a premier conference experience. Scholars and educators will engage in professional development and explore a wide range of topics relevant to teaching

We are cordianlly inviting submissions for the panel outlined below. Interested colleagues are kindly asked to contact Daniel Kadar and send him their abstracts before 10/09/2026. The aim of this panel is to bring together many different perspectives on Chinese politeness and to explore directions for future research on the basis of such perspectives. Since Gu鈥檚 (1990) seminal study, Chinese has been an important language in politeness studies, with hundreds of studies dedicated to its analys

We are cordinally inviting submissions for the panel outlined below. We would like to ask colleagues with interest to contact us (dkadar@fastmail.com and jhouse@fastmail.fm) no later than 10 September. The aim of the panel is to bring together experts working in the field of ostensible language use. The panel will provide a much needed platform for discussing collaborative research between leading experts. Starting with the classic work of Searle, the concept of ostensibility has been importa

We would like to invite abstract submissions for the panel outlined below. While the official deadline is 15 October 2026, colleagues with interest are kindly asked to contact us (dkadar@fastmail.com and jhouse@fastmail.fm) by 10 September 2026. Panel Summary: Organisers: Juliane House Daniel Z. Kadar Discussant: Zohar Kampf The aim of this panel is to bring together leading experts working on the pragmatic study of language and politics. In particular, our goal is to approach how