[Air-L] 3rd Call for papers - EPICS VI - Deadline extended

Pilar Garces pilar_garces at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 3 11:32:23 PST 2013


 
The upcoming Sixth International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics. EPICS VI will be held on 12-14 May 2014, at the University of Seville, Spain. Under the umbrella theme “Perspectives on Language Aggression and Conflict”, EPICS VI aims at providing a forum for practitioners of pragmatics and other related disciplines.   

Professor Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University) and Professor John Joseph (The University of Edinburgh) have agreed to be EPICS VI keynote speakers. 
 
EPICS VI will also host the European launching of the Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict. Co-edited by Pilar Garcés Blitvich (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) and Maria Sifianou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens).

EPICS VI especially focuses, but is not limited to contributions, that addressconflict from a linguistic perspective, as well as to works that present theoretical developments on or practical applications to:

- Gender differences in language aggression and conflict
- Language aggression and conflict among family members
- Language aggression and conflict in work/academic settings
- Language aggression, conflict and identity
- Emotional communication and conflict
- Impoliteness
- Language aggression and conflict in the classroom
- Language aggression and conflict in political discourse
- Language aggression and conflict in the (digital) media.
- Language aggression and conflict in inter/cross cultural communication
- Language aggression and conflict in service encounters
- (Intercultural) Business and conflict
- Forensic linguistics


For more information, please contact  Manuel Padilla Cruz (mpadillacruz at us.es


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