Gothenburg University’s Faculty of Arts building (Humanistiska fakulteten), Sweden.
Theme
* Language data
* corpora
* computational pragmatics
* all other pragmatics-related topics where pragmatics is conceived broadly as a cognitive, social, and cultural perspective on language and communication
Conference chairs
* Professor Karin Aijmer，University of Gotaplatsen, Sweden
* Professor Jens Allwood, University of Gotaplatsen, Sweden
Plenary lecturers
* Douglas Biber, professor of applied linguistics, University of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, US
* Bill Hanks, professor of anthropology and linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, US
* Susan Herring, professor of information science, University of Indiana, Bloomington, US
Background information
Nine International Pragmatics Conferences have been held. The first one (Viareggio, Italy, September 1985) was a precursor to the actual founding of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA). IPrA is an international scientific organization devoted to the study of language use. It was established in 1986 to represent the field of pragmatics in its widest interdisciplinary sense as a functional (i.e. cognitive, social, and cultural) perspective on language and communication.
