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The 7th edition of the International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication — INPRA 2016 was organized by the University of Split, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Intercultural Pragmatics Journal (De Gruyter Mouton). The conference has brought together 200 delegates from around the globe, to be precise, there were renowned speakers, researchers, and scholars from 43 countries. A diverse range of topics from the fields of Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Semantics, Cognitive Sciences and Philosophy of Language provided a multiple point of view on intercultural communication of the present day. The speakers presented and discussed their work which dealt with pragmatics-related topics ranging from pragmatics theories and theoretical perspectives, intercultural, cross- cultural and societal aspects of pragmatic research, to the application of pragmatic theory in practice. More specifically, the presentations covered classical pragmatics, contemporary pragmatics theory, metapragmatics, pragmatic meaning, implicatures, discourse deixis, presuppositions, speech acts, formulaic and figurative language, communicating interculturality, lingua franca pragmatics, societal pragmatics, intercultural misunderstandings, sociopragmatics, social networks, everyday language, (im)politeness phenomena, computer-mediated communication, media communication, pragmatic competence and skills, teaching intercultural pragmatic competence and skills, and other pragmatics- related topics. |
