24–25 May 2027, Helsinki, Finland

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From the perspective of pragmatics, coaching can be understood as a communication-based, co-constructed discourse genre in which coach and client jointly build meanings, goals, and courses of action turn by turn (see Fleischhacker & Graf 2023). Rather than merely transmitting information, coaching works through persuasion: it relies on speech acts such as advising, evaluating, goal-setting, while also managing uptake and creating an expert identity for the coach (see Weinzinger 2016, Dayter & Rü

Call for Papers: We invite colleagues interested in participating in the panel “Gendered Language Practices: Between Convergence and Polarization” to send an expression of interest, together with a provisional title and, if possible, an abstract, to Renata Enghels (renata.enghels@ugent.be) and Marlies Jansegers (marlies.jansegers@ugent.be) by 30 September 2026. Participants will then be asked to submit their abstract through the official IPrA 2027 submission platform by 15 October 2026 Ge

Call for Papers: This panel invites pragmalinguistics and socio-pragmatic perspectives on microaggressions, and more broadly, forms of covert harm and interpersonal bias. Originally defined by Pierce as ‘black-white racial interactions [that] are characterized by white putdowns, done in an automatic, preconscious or unconscious fashion’ (Pierce, 1974: 515), microaggression has recently been described, as ‘subtle behaviors, social practices, and environmental features that express disrespectfu

We are thrilled to announce that our panel at the International Pragmatics Conference is now accepting submissions. Researchers have an ethical responsibility to protect and respect research participants, their personal information, and any sensitive information that might be disclosed in the original data. The General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR (EU 2016/679), emphasises the need to reflect on how we treat personal information. At the same time there is an increased interest in open dat

Organizer: Xi Chen (Nanyang Technological University) Lucien Brown (Monash University) Language has the capacity to cause profound social and interpersonal harm. Through interaction and discourse, individuals and groups may be excluded, dehumanised, stigmatised, marginalised, or subjected to moral condemnation and social control. In this panel, we explore this harmful side of language via the notion of “toxic language.” Within pragmatics, toxic language is rather an underrepresented con

Call for Papers: Standard grammatical concepts such as agreement, case, subject, direct object, phrases, clauses, and sentences are predominantly derived from the study of dominant Indo-European languages, including Latin, Greek, German, and English. It raises a crucial question: how can we ensure that these concepts are suitable for analyzing languages from different language families? A brief examination of representative non-Indo-European languages reveals significant differences compared

As aging populations and multilingual societies continue to grow worldwide (Navaneetham and Arunachalam 2025), communication involving multilingual persons living with dementia has become an increasingly important (Schneider Ward, Karl & Rzitki 2026; Schneider 2023; Karl 2021), yet still under-researched area. We aim to bring together researchers working on multilingualism and dementia across different linguistic, cultural, institutional, and methodological contexts. We particularly welcome

Panel Description: Panel: Integrating conversation analysis and semantics into new perspectives Organized by Yida Cai, University of Helsinki Discussant: Prof. Arnulf Deppermann This is a panel at the 20th International Pragmatics Conference (IPC20) that aims to provide an opportunity to discuss how conversation analysis (CA) and semantics can be integrated to study linguistic phenomena more deeply from various perspectives. Within Interactional Linguistics (IL), CA is the primary metho

CFP: IPRA 2027 - IPC20 Helsinki 2027, Theme: Building bridges: Understanding and mitigating antagonism, conflict, and polarisation, panel deadline: 5th June 2026, talks/posters deadline: 15th October 2026.,https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP2027

Collateral sounds (laughs, lip-smacks, sighs, grunts, clicks, etc.), a subset of what H. Clark calls collateral signals, are frequent in human-human communication and play a role which is parallel to information exchange between speakers. Collateral sounds can be used for meta-communication, negotiating the meaning and understanding, construction of epistemic stances towards one another and modifying the propositional content of utterances. Despite the variety of potential functions, such collat

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Title: Explaining the emergence of pragmatic markers: Cooptation, pragmaticalization, constructionalization? Panel organizers: Wiltrud Mihatsch (Tübingen), Inga Hennecke (Tübingen), Gunther Kaltenböck (Graz), Stefan Schneider (Graz) Pragmatic markers, a heterogeneous class of extra-clausal expressions including discourse markers, stance adverbials, interjections, and formulae of social exchange, occupy a peculiar position in linguistic analysis. While their functional properties are relative

We invite contributions to the panel "Narrating inherited trauma: Pragmatic, narrative, and cross-cultural perspectives," to be held as part of the 20th International Pragmatics Conference, Helsinki, Finland, 27 June – 2 July 2027. Scholars who are considering a contribution are welcome to contact us with a provisional title and a brief description of the proposed paper by September 15, at: Bracha Nir, bnir@univ.haifa.ac.il; Tomoko I. Sakita, tsakita@mail.doshisha.ac.jp. The panel focus

The current communication pattern worldwide is marked by two key features: digital connectivity and civic unrest. Communities co-produce meaning through nuanced, often contested communicative acts that range across generational, cultural, and ideological boundaries. This panel proposes that intercommunity interaction is not merely an exchange of information but a dynamic space of pragmatic negotiation, in which utterances are determined by context, implicature, and social intent (Levinson, 2023)

We invite submissions to our panel, “Language, Conflict, and Aggression in Contemporary Communication.” Please submit your abstract (maximum 500 words) through the conference website (https://ipra2027.exordo.com/login) by October 15, 2026. In Step 4 (“Topics”), please select our panel, “Language, Conflict, and Aggression in Contemporary Communication.” An active IPrA membership is required both to submit an abstract and to participate in the conference. Please note that each person may be

We would like to draw your attention to a panel on pragmatic borrowing which will be a part of the 20th International Pragmatics Conference. The conference will take place in Helsinki, Finland, June 27- July 2, 2027 in Helsinki. Please, submit a 250-500 words abstract via the IPrA conference website (https://ipra2027.exordo.com/) by October 15th. When you submit your abstract, remember to Select 'Pragmatic borrowing in different language settings'. The term pragmatic borrowing was introduced