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[…]
Dates: October 5-7, 2022 Place: ULB – Campus Solbosch (Brussels) Summary:The aim of this three-day workshop is to reinforce the links between different groups of scholars working on quotation and on reported speech. The workshop also seeks to broaden the scope of research by bringing to prominence research on sign languages and on ‘less well-studied’[…]
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[…]
The LaDisco Seminar will be held on October 19, 2018 from 2 to 4 pm in room AZ4.103 and will present the following themes: Yolanda Garcia (PhD Student from Institute for Logci, Cognition, Language and Information of Universidad del País Vasco) on Irony in Autism From now on, the seminar will take form of[…]