Department of English Language & Literature
March 4, 2024
Call for papers

In the recent years, the study of meaning and human communication has become more and more interdisciplinary, combining insights from linguistic pragmatics, cognitive science, discourse analysis, stylistics, psycho- and neurolinguistics, L1 and L2 acquisition, translation studies, and many more areas. This one-day workshop aims to offer a venue to PhD students, as well as to early postdoctoral researchers, for presenting their work on any topic related to pragmatics. We invite a broad range of papers taking a linguistic, experimental and/or applied approach to the study of linguistic meaning.

Topics addressed in the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following:

• metaphor and figurative speech;
• non-propositional effects in utterance interpretation;
• irony;
• presupposition;
• temporal reference;
• modality;
• discourse connectives;
• L2 pragmatics.

Invited speakers

Prof. Diana Mazzarella, University of Neuchâtel
Prof. Stavros Assimakopoulos, University of Malta

PhD students and post-doctorates who wish to present a paper at the Workshop are invited to submit a 250-word Abstract and a brief bionote to Anna Piata (apiata@enl.uoa.gr). Abstracts should be in Times New Roman 12 pt, single spaced. References should be in APA 7th edition. The deadline for Abstract submission is Friday, January 15, 2024.

Each presentation slot will be 20 minutes long. A 30-minute discussion will follow at the end of every session for questions and commentaries.

Important dates

Deadline for Abstract submission: January 15, 2024
Notification of acceptance: January 30, 2024

Venue

Aula, Library of the School of Philosophy (Zografou campus)

Workshop organizers
Elly Ifantidou (NKUA)
Louis de Saussure (University of Neuchâtel)
Anna Piata (NKUA)