What is PLL?

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
  

• Prof. Haruhiko 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
  

• The JALT Pragmatics SIG
  

Sponsored by

• John Benjamins
  

• Alma Publishing
  

• The Pragmatics Society of Japan (日本語用論学会)
  

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