12th INTERNATIONAL PRAGMATICS CONFERENCE
3-8 July 2011, Manchester, UK
SPECIAL THEME: Pragmatics and its interfaces
The conference is open to ALL OTHER PRAGMATICS-RELATED TOPICS as well (where pragmatics is conceived broadly as a cognitive, social, and cultural perspective on language and communication).
Plenary speakers:
Laurel Brinton, University of British Columbia
Nick Enfield, Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
Hans Kamp, University of Stuttgart
Sotaro Kita, University of Birmingham
Rosina Marquez Reiter, University of Surrey
Wes Sharrock, University of Manchester
For panel proposals there are two deadlines: 15 June 2010, 1 September 2010. Proposals received by 15 June 2010 will already be evaluated before the end of June; this will allow for amendments in response to the committee’s comments, so that re-evaluation after 1 September is possible for proposals that are not already accepted in June.
The deadline for all panel contributions, lectures, and posters is 29 October 2010.
The submission process is completely web-based. Read carefully all instructions at http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE12&n=1403 (or go to the IPrA site, http://ipra.ua.ac.be, and click CONFERENCES > 12th Conference > Call for papers). Note that IPrA membership is required for use of the submissions module.
Panel proposals (deadlines 15 June 2010 – for early approval – and 1 September 2010; see above) have to consist of a brief outline (max. one average A4 or Standard-size page, single spacing, Times pt 12; i.e. ca 500 words) of the theme and purpose of the panel, with a first indication of the people the organizer(s) anticipate(s) to be involved as speakers. Panel organizers are asked to avoid, if at all possible, restricting their panels to an in-group; openness and diversity of perspectives is compatible with topical coherence. Immediately after the deadline the conference committee will, on the basis of the outline (weighed against other proposals in relation to the total number of available time slots), decide (i) whether the proposal is accepted, and (ii) how many 90-minute slots can be made available for the accepted panel. From that moment onwards, the organizer(s) is/are free to fill the allotted sessions in the way they see as most suitable to the theme and the purpose of their panel. Not all panels need to take the same form; some may work with sessions that emphasize discussion; others may want to fit in more (brief) oral presentations; the minimum number of presentations planned for one 90-minute session, however, should be three. Though it is the panel organizer(s) who take(s) active responsibility for the quality of the contributions to their panel (i.e. they decide what is accepted), abstracts should, for all panel contributions, be submitted by the individual contributors separately by the 29 October 2010 deadline that will be handled for individual submissions (see below). Panel organizers are expected to guide their participants in this process,
so that all formal requirements are duly fulfilled and the abstracts live up to the expected international standards. This procedure implies that no-one can submit contributions to panels without the prior consent of the panel organizer(s). As a list of accepted panels will be available at the end of June (for early submissions) and in the second half of September (for later submissions), prospective participants are of course welcome to seek such prior consent by contacting the organizer(s) of the panel of their choice. As the number of slots for panels is limited, however, most participants will have to make an individual submission.
Individual proposals for lectures and posters should take the form of a brief abstract (equivalent to max. one average A4 or Standard-size page, single spacing, Times pt 12; i.e. ca 500 words); mind the 29 October 2010 deadline. It is the individual submitter’s choice to submit for oral presentation (lecture) or a poster. For oral presentations, 30-minute slots will be available (including discussion time). Posters will be up for the whole week; during one of the conference days, there will be a free hour that can be used only for looking at and discussing posters. IPrA actively encourages the submission of posters; experience tells us that they often lead to more serious interaction and result in more lasting and fruitful contacts than oral presentations.
Because of heavy competition for slots in the program, no-one can be considered for more than one contribution of which he or she is the first author (whether panel contributions, lectures or posters). Anyone may be involved in a second or even a third paper if someone else is the first author and will be present at the conference as well. In the case of multiple authorship, the web-based submission system recognizes as first author only the one who handles the submission process. While there is a restriction on the number of contributions of which one may be the first author (one only!), presenting a paper is always compatible with taking the role of organizer of a panel or acting as a discussant in a panel.