The Pragmatics and Language Learning Conference:

PLL18: The 18th International Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning

Date: Friday, July 16th, 2010 Time: Time TBA

Speaker: Call for papers deadline is Jan 15, 2010

Description:
The 18th International Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning will take place at Kobe University, Kobe, Japan from 16th to 19th of July, 2010. The conference will consist of two and a half days of workshops and presentations.

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.

A Call for Proposals is in progress; the abstract submission deadline is January 15th, 2010. Please see the PLL website for full details.

Organization: The Pragmatics and Language Learning Conference

Cost: 12,000 yen; see PLL for earlybird discounts

Venue: Kobe University, Kobe

Location: Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

Contact The Pragmatics and Language Learning Conference

Website: www.pragsig.org/pll/