International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA) Brussels 2023

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[…]

Workshop: Cross-disciplinary perspectives on quoting and speech reporting

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’[…]

Public defence of the PhD Thesis of Sarah CHATTI

Sarah CHATTI’s public defence for her PhD Thesis « La question environnementale et les organisations internationales (1992-2018). Analyse logométrique des rapports d’activité du Programme des Nations unies pour l’environnement (PNUE), de la Banque mondiale, et de l’Organisation des Nations unies pour l’éducation, la science et la culture (UNESCO) » will be held on June 13,[…]

EOS

Belgian ‘Language in Autism’ Study

Program EOS (Excellence of Science) of F.R.S. – FNRS and of Research Foundation Flanders – FWO Spokesperson : M. Kissine (ULB) ULB: M. Kissine, A. Destrebecqz, G. Deliens. KULeuven: Ilse Noens, Inge Zink, Jean Steyaert. UGent: Herber Roeyers, Petra Warreyn. The majority of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) display a significant language delay, which may[…]