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
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- Corrado Bellifemine. An exploratory study of multimodal self-repairs: New insight into the developmental gap between children with and without language disorder
- Violetta Cataldo, Claudia Crocco. Phonetic cues to diatopic variation in Campania Italian intonation
- Preeti Kumari, Pritha Chandra. Honorificity feature as an enabler: Bridging the person gap
- Ana Mati膰, Maja Keli膰, Eva Pavlinu拧i膰 Vilus, Marijan
2026. iv, 164 pp.
Table of Contents
Articles
Terminology: Ancient Chinese way
Xingfeng Liu | pp.鈥�155鈥�174
Investigating Western social science terminology in China鈥檚 late Qing and early Republican Eras: A case study of Yan Fu鈥檚 translations
Lichun Tao, Yanjun Pan & Zixuan Wang | pp.鈥�175鈥�200
Terminology in genetic-linguistic studies as a political issue: The case of the South Slavic dialectal continuum
Igor Iva拧kovi膰 | pp.鈥�201鈥�221
Translation of medical terms from an ethical
Language documentation of the American Sign Language (ASL) communities is essential to preserve and share our language use and interaction, something we cherish. Yet there is no conventionalized written system that can be used, instead we've been using video. Currently these videos are mostly not accessible in a way we can search the contents for language expressions. The ASL Signbank, an empirical-based resource-driven database, labels ASL use in transcripts time-aligned to ASL videos along wit
This Element explores the analysis of deception in written texts from a forensic linguistic perspective. It provides an overview of the evolution of deception research and philosophy, from its earliest conceptualisation as a sin against God, to cue leakage theories and pseudoscientific beliefs built on medieval concepts of deceptive behaviour, to current psychology and linguistic based approaches to identifying lying. This requires an appreciation of where linguistic analysis fits into the eight
This Element explores the concepts, benefits, and limitations of the use of AI in language learning, teaching, and assessment. It also looks at AI tools for language teaching and language teachers' roles and competencies required for AI-powered language teaching. In addition, it offers practical ideas for AI-powered language teaching and presents AI-powered language teaching activities based on an AI literacy framework, which highlights using AI creatively, critically, effectively, efficiently,
This Elements presents a series of studies investigating the relationship between language, Theory of Mind, and other cognitive skills, across different languages and cultures. The first set of studies focuses on longitudinal relationships between English-speaking children's understanding of complement-clause constructions (e.g., The cow knows the sticker is in the red box), mental verbs (e.g., know vs. think), modal verbs (e.g., must vs. might), and Theory of Mind. The second set of studies inv
Now in its second edition, this handbook is a comprehensive and up-to-date resource that explores the applications of corpus-based research in linguistics. Since the first edition, corpus linguistics has evolved dramatically, and this edition has been fully updated to reflect these developments, with new chapters on emerging areas such as online language, legal discourse, and lexical complexity in learner language. Bringing together contributions from leading scholars, it critically evaluates me
Call for Papers:
The key role that pragmatic markers (PMs) such as English actually, well, you know, and I mean聽play in social interaction,聽collaborative meaning-making,聽and successful communication is well known in a range of different languages (Fischer 2006, Degand et al. 2022, inter alia). PMs are essential to achieving communicative goals such as managing interaction or expressing attitudes. What is far less well understood is how language learners acquire and use PMs in an L2 or additio
Call for Papers:
We are pleased to announce that the second conference on Formal Models in Linguistics (FML 2026) will take place on November 11-12, 2026, hosted by the Faculty of Humanities at HSE University. The conference focuses on the study of natural language within both generative and non-generative formal approaches, using any methodological tools (experimental, corpus-based, etc.).
We invite submissions of original work focusing on formal analysis of natural language data. Submitt
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
Call for Papers:
The Departments of African Studies and Linguistics at the University of Vienna are pleased to announce the call for papers for the 12th edition of the World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL 12).
We warmly invite researchers, academics, and students, particularly those working in African Studies, African languages, and African literatures, to participate in this global scholarly gathering.
Apart from the general sessions, there will be two thematic workshops:
Wor
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
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