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We invite colleagues interested in participating in the panel 鈥淭he Pragmatics of Humour in Pop(ular) Culture" to send an expression of interest, together with a provisional title and an abstract (max. 500 words), to Michelle Weckermann (michelle.weckermann@uni-a.de) and Christian Hoffmann (christian.hoffmann@uni-a.de) by 30 September 2026. Participants will then be asked to submit their abstract through the official IPrA 2027 submission platform by 15 October 2026. The Pragmatics of Humour

As aging populations and multilingual societies continue to grow worldwide (Navaneetham and Arunachalam 2025), communication involving multilingual persons living with dementia has become an increasingly important (Schneider Ward, Karl & Rzitki 2026; Schneider 2023; Karl 2021), yet still under-researched area. We aim to bring together researchers working on multilingualism and dementia across different linguistic, cultural, institutional, and methodological contexts. We particularly welcome

We invite submissions to our panel, 鈥淟anguage, Conflict, and Aggression in Contemporary Communication.鈥� Please submit your abstract (maximum 500 words) through the conference website (https://ipra2027.exordo.com/login) by October 15, 2026. In Step 4 (鈥淭opics鈥�), please select our panel, 鈥淟anguage, Conflict, and Aggression in Contemporary Communication.鈥� An active IPrA membership is required both to submit an abstract and to participate in the conference. Please note that each person may be

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)

La pragma虂tica diacro虂nica se ha consolidado recientemente como li虂nea de investigacio虂n en los estudios sobre discurso. De un modo concreto, estudia el uso de la lengua en contextos del pasado y analiza co虂mo las formas y funciones lingu虉i虂sticas se configuran y transforman a trave虂s del tiempo (Stein, 1985; Jucker, 1995; Taavitsainen y Fitzmaurice, 2007), atendiendo tanto a aspectos discursivos como sociales. De este modo, su desarrollo ha permitido ampliar el campo de la lingu虉i虂stica histo虂r

Digital platforms are increasingly organised around practices of reacting. Across platforms, reactions are shaped by affordances and emic labels, from low-threshold uptake such as likes, comments, quotes, reposts, or stitches to elaborate audiovisual formats such as live responses and reaction videos. At this end of the spectrum, reception becomes a "vernacular form of visual production" (Kim 2016: 333): prior content is watched, paused, felt, discussed, and repackaged before an audience. Positi

After more than 20 years in Ko拧ice, the Word-Formation Theories & Typology and Universals in Word-Formation twin conferences set out on a world tour. Their first stop will be at Vilnius University, Lithuania, on 15鈥�17 June 2027. We cordially invite everyone to explore new territories in word-formation research and continue the tradition of the Ko拧ice meetings. The conference will host three workshops and a general session with a preferred focus on word-formation theory, typology, and universa

Call for Panel Contributions 20th International Pragmatics Conference (IPC20) University of Helsinki, 27 June - 02 July 2027 Pragmatic Acts of Neo-Imperialism. Reference, Presupposition, Indexicality Panel Organisers: Rita Vallentin (European University Viadrina), Miriam Lind (European University Viadrina), Britta Schneider (University of Vienna) The nexus of language and imperialism has been explored previously from a variety of angles, starting with the rich research on linguistic imp

Against a backdrop of global educational change, rapid advances in digital technologies, and ongoing transformations in knowledge production, language and literacy education is facing unprecedented opportunities and challenges. Issues such as artificial intelligence, digital literacy, multimodal learning, changes in scholarly communication, and educational equity are reshaping research paradigms, theoretical development, and classroom practice in the field. In response to emerging social nee

Gegenstand der Tagung: Die Kommunikation zwischen Interessengruppen, Mitgliedern der Parlamente, Regierungen und Mini-sterien, Lobbyismus-Dienstleistern, zivilgesellschaftlichen Initiativen und der 脰ffentlichkeit ist integraler Bestandteil politischer Kommunikation. Sie beeinflusst den politischen Prozess, die Gesetzgebung und die 枚ffentliche Meinungsbildung. Die politik- und wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Forschung hat den Lob-byismus in Deutschland in seiner demokratietheoretischen, soziologi

Scalar focus particles (ScalFocPs) like 鈥榚ven鈥� and 鈥榦nly鈥� have played a central role in alternative semantics and related fields ever since their development (Jacobs 1983, Rooth 1985, 1992). Their syntax and semantics have been at the center of much recent work on languages other than commonly studied varieties of English (cf. Hole 2013, Sun 2020 on Vietnamese; Quek & Hirsch 2017 on Singaporean English; Hole 2017, 2023, Wimmer 2020, 2022, Yuan 2024 on Chinese; Yip 2024, 2026 on Cantonese, Vietna

The 6th European Experimental Philosophy Conference will take place at the University of Cagliari from September 8th to 11th, 2026. It will consist of the Linguistic Justice Society Satellite Workshop 鈥淚nterdisciplinary Perspectives on Linguistic Justice鈥� on September 8th, followed by the main Conference on September 9th鈥�11th. The event is generously supported by Gian Pietro Storari Funds, Dipartimento di Pedagogia, Psicologia, Filosofia, Universit脿 degli Studi di Cagliari, Fondazione di Sard

This panel invites pragmalinguistics and socio-pragmatic perspectives on microaggressions, and more broadly, forms of covert harm and interpersonal bias. Originally defined by Pierce as 鈥榖lack-white racial interactions [that] are characterized by white putdowns, done in an automatic, preconscious or unconscious fashion鈥� (Pierce, 1974: 515), microaggression has recently been described, as 鈥榮ubtle behaviors, social practices, and environmental features that express disrespectful or derogatory atti

Artistic practice is conceptualised, communicated, and legitimised through culturally specific discourses. When these discourses are not recognised, institutions risk imposing external frameworks of value onto culturally distinct practices, thereby misrepresenting how such practices are understood, what motivates them, and how meaning is produced within their own cultural contexts (Baumann, 2007; Bourdieu, 1984). Building bridges across artistic cultures therefore requires close attention to the

In the field of second language acquisition (SLA), there is a consensus among researchers that a multitude of factors come into play during the acquisition process and influence both the pace of acquisition and the success of that process. Indeed, several factors account for inter- and intra-individual differences: age, working memory, motivation, aptitude for the L2, learning strategies, proficiency level in the L2, and the subjects鈥� linguistic repertoire, not to mention the importance of s

This panel is organized by Chaoqun Xie (Zhejiang International Studies University, China) and will be held as part of the 20th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA2027) at the University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. Call for Papers: Recent developments in interpersonal pragmatics have reinforced the interactional and relational nature of politeness and impoliteness (Xie 2023). Correspondingly, a growing body of research has identified reciprocity as a fundamental principle underlying

We invite colleagues interested in participating in the panel 鈥淕endered Language Practices: Between Convergence and Polarization鈥� to send an expression of interest, together with a provisional title and, if possible, an abstract, to Renata Enghels (renata.enghels@ugent.be) and Marlies Jansegers (marlies.jansegers@ugent.be) by 30 September 2026. Participants will then be asked to submit their abstract through the official IPrA 2027 submission platform by 15 October 2026 Gendered language prac

In research on evidentiality, the initial focus on languages that grammatically encode information source (Aikhenvald 2004, 2018, 2021) has subsequently widened. Studies analysing how evidential meaning is conveyed through the interaction of pragmatics, semantics and grammar have become increasingly abundant (Squartini 2001, 2008, 2018; Cornillie 2007; Albelda 2015; Cabedo and Figueras 2018), among which Romance languages, especially French (Dendale 2022 and references therein), have begun to ga

Multimedia and Multimodal Representations of Food: Pragmatic Perspectives on Identity and Space Daniela Cesiri 鈥淐a鈥� Foscari鈥� University of Venice (Italy) daniela.cesiri@unive.it Takako Kawabata tk70@soas.ac.uk Food is rarely just sustenance in media discourse; it operates as a complex semiotic and linguistic system used to negotiate identity, alterity, and cultural prestige (Mapes, 2021). Simultaneously, enogastronomic promotion has emerged as a strategic, pragmatic tool to manage the pres

Microaggressions in Interaction (Co-organised by Bernadette Vine and Janet Holmes) The concept of microaggression (Pierce 1970) proves useful in exploring linguistic behavior that causes people to feel uncomfortable, unwelcome, or unappreciated. Microaggressions can be defined as any means by which a person is othered or sent signals that they do not fit or belong. This may be unintentional, and Stollznow (2020, p. 207) notes that these everyday, subtle 鈥渆xpressions of prejudice 鈥� are so per