Update

The 18th International Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning will take place at Kobe University, Kobe, Japan from 16th to 19th of July, 2010.

The PLL conference aims to foster an exchange of views on language use from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives and will address a broad range of topics in

• pragmatics
  

• sociolinguistics, and
  

• discourse analysis, including conversation analysis, critical discourse analysis, narrative analysis, and interactional sociolinguistics
  

We are particularly interested in how language is used in

• second and foreign language learning
  

• educational settings
  

• intercultural interaction
  

• work place interaction
  

• pragmatics of academic talk and text
  

• multimedia discourse
  

• computer-mediated communication
  

• multilingual talk, and
  

• other similar situations
  

Plenary Speakers

• Dr Carol Rinnert, Hiroshima City University
  

• Dr Hiko Yamaguchi, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies
  

• Dr Jean Wong, The College of New Jersey
  

Co-hosted by

• School of Languages and Communication, Kobe University
  

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