PLL18 2010 - The 18th International Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning PLL18

(PLL18) will take place at Kobe University, Kobe, Japan from 16th to 19th of July, 2010.

The PLL conference aims to foster an exchange of views on language use from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives and will address a broad range of topics in

pragmatics

sociolinguistics, and

discourse analysis, including conversation analysis, critical discourse analysis, narrative analysis, and interactional sociolinguistics.



We are particularly interested in how language is used in

second and foreign language learning

educational settings

intercultural interaction

work place interaction

pragmatics of academic talk and text

multimedia discourse

computer-mediated communication

multilingual talk, and

other similar situations



The conference provides an international forum for language educators who are interested in issues of pragmatics and discourse analysis.

For more details, visit the conference website at http://www.pragsig.org/pll/



Proposals for presentation are welcome on topics such as:

L2 talk and text

Developmental L2 pragmatics

Pragmatics in language education

Pragmatics in language assessment

Pragmatics in computer-mediated communication Theory and methodology in pragmatics



Proposals may be submitted for:

Papers (20 minutes for presentation, 10 minutes for discussion) and Posters

Abstracts for all presentation formats should be written in English and will undergo peer review.



Abstract submission deadline - 15 January, 2010



Authors may submit no more than ONE individual and ONE joint proposal.

Proposals must be submitted online via the conference website



ONLINE PROPOSAL FORM

http://www.pragsig.org/pll/submit.html



Decisions on proposal submissions will be sent out by 31 March 2010.



Conference Organizers:

Tim Greer

Donna Tatsuki

Yuriko Kite

Email:

pll18kobe-AT-gmail.com