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Call for Contributions

The SIG is currently calling for lesson-plan style contributions for the third volume in its Pragmatics Resources Series. Edited by Jim Ronald, Kenneth Fordyce and Carol Rinnert, this volume will feature a broad range of classroom-based activities that focus on language in use.

The deadline is March 2012, and we would encourage as many SIG members as possible to submit an activity outline for this project.

For further details see the call for contributions page.

2012 JALT Pan-SIG Conference
The Pragmatics SIG will again be participating in the Pan-SIG conference in 2012, to be held at Hiroshima University on June 16 and 17, 2012. The deadline for proposals is February 29, 2012 so if you are interested in presenting, please put together a submission according to the outline on the conference website.

2011 JALT Pan-SIG Conference
The 10th JALT Pan-SIG conference was held at Shinshu University in Matsumoto, Nagano from 21-22 May, 2010.

This conference was co-sponsored by the Pragmatics SIG. As always, the program inlcuded a variety of presentations and workshops related to pragmatics and language use, and plenty of opportunities to meet and talk with other pragmatics researchers.

The SIG also held an extraordinary general meeting at the Pan SIG conference in order to approve our revised constitution. Those SIG members who were unable to attend the conference are welcome to read the constitution document.

SIG book out
The second volume in tihe SIG's Pragmatics
Resources series, entitled
"Observing Talk: Conversation Analytic
Studies of Second Language Interaction",
is out now.

The new volume is edited by Tim Greer and includes eight chapters by Japan-based CA researchers who are interested
in second language interaction. Current SIG members will each recieve a complimentary copy, and additional copies are on sale via the publications page.



















SIG Constitution
Download a pdf copy of the SIG's consitution here;
Up-coming conferences

  Indianna University, USA
  19-21April, 2012
  of the Pragmatics Society of Japan
  Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, Japan
  3-4 December 2011
  Hamamatsu, Japan
  12-15 October 2011
 

Newsletter Online
The latest issue of the SIG newsletter, Pragmatic Matters (Summer 2011) is available online

Back issues
Spring 2011
Summer 2010
Summer 2009
Contact the website editor, Tim Greer, at
tim(a)kobe-u.ac.jp
Noriko Ishihara presents her study on pragmatics in teacher educationDonna Fujimoto meets new SIG membersAt the SIG table, Nagoya, 2010Annual General Meeting, Nagoya, 2010Carol Rinnert at the SIG table, Nagoya 2010
Pragmatics-related presentations at the 2012 TUJ Collquium
The following pragmatics presentations will be held at the TUJ Applied Linguistics colloquium in Tokyo on 12 February, 2012. Our thanks to Donna Fujimoto and Reiko Shimozawa Takeda, for helping to organize these sessions.

Reiko Shimozawa Takeda
No Tech to Low-Tech to So Tech! Google Applications for EFL Writing
11:30-11:55

Kimiko Koseki
Teaching Responses to Compliments in High School
12:00-12:25

Reiko Shimozawa Takeda
From “Teacher” to “Student”: ELL Identity Shift Surfaces in CA
1:00—1:25

Seth Cervantes and Robert Olson
Teaching Repair Practices to Young Children
2:00-2:25

Yukie Saito
Pragmatic Analysis of Closing Conversations in ELT Textbooks and Corpus Data
4:00-4:25

Don Caroll presents in a 2012 panel on CA.