The International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) is an international scientific organization devoted to the study of language use. Established in 1986, it now has on average 1,500 members in over 70 countries world-wide. It represents the field of pragmatics, i.e. the science of language use, in its widest interdisciplinary sense as a functional (i.e. cognitive, social, and cultural) perspective on[…]
Emma VANDEN WYNGAERD’s public defence for her PhD Thesis “Bilingual Implications:Using code-switching data to inform linguistic theory” will be held on January 29, 2020 from 2.30 to 4.30 pm. The jury is composed by Philippe DE BRABANTER (Promotor), Philippine GEELHAND DE MERXEM (Secretary, ULB), Mikhail KISSINE (ULB), Alain DELATTRE (President, ULB), Juana LICERAS (University of[…]
Sue GOOSSENS’s public defence for her PhD Thesis “Embracing and rejecting multilingualism. A linguistic ethnographic study of policy negotiation in urban secondary school with a multilingual project” will be held on November 19, 2020 at 4 pm. The jury is composed by Jürgen JASPERS (Promotor), Xavier Luffin (President), Philippe DE BRABANTER (Secretary), Evie TOPS (ULB),[…]
Antonin THUNS‘s public defence for his PhD Thesis “Word Meanings Out There and Within: Toward a Naturalistic Account” will be held on June 22, 2020 from 2 to 4 pm For pecular organizational’s reasons, it will only be a proclamation. A public seminar will be held as soon as the deconfinement allows it. We invite you[…]