IPr A General Assembly Melbourne 15 July 2009

IPr. A General Assembly Melbourne, 15 July 2009

IPr. A Consultation Board 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 11 th International Pragmatics Conference Pragmatics & Pragmatics online Handbook of Pragmatics Future conferences Membership Elections 2011

11 th International Pragmatics Conference

11 th International Pragmatics Conference • Participants: 650 up [LIST] • LOC and ICC CONFERENCE CHAIR: Keith ALLAN (Monash University) LOCAL SITE COMMITTEE: The other members of the Local Site Committee are: Marisa CORDELLA (Monash University), Nicholas EVANS (University of Melbourne/Australian National University, Canberra), Zosia GOLEBIOWSKI (Deakin University), Heinz Leo KRETZENBACHER (University of Melbourne), Randy La. POLLA (La. Trobe University), Anna MARGETTS (Monash University), Howard NICHOLAS (La. Trobe University), Gillian WIGGLESWORTH (University of Melbourne), Lynda YATES (La. Trobe University) INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE: In addition to the members of the Local Site Committee, the International Conference Committee includes: Keiko ABE (Tokyo), Michael BAMBERG (Worcester, MA), Josie BERNICOT (Poitiers), Helmut GRUBER (Vienna), Sachiko IDE (Tokyo; ex officio as IPr. A President), Alexandra JAFFE (Long Beach), Bonnie Mc. ELHINNY (Toronto), Michael MEEUWIS (Ghent), Jacob MEY (Odense), Jan-Ola ÖSTMAN (helsinki), Marina SBISÀ (Trieste), Anna-Brita STENSTRÖM (Bergen), Jef VERSCHUEREN (Antwerp; ex officio as IPr. A Secretary General), Yorick WILKS (Sheffield), John WILSON (Belfast)

11 th International Pragmatics Conference Sponsoring • Univ. of Melbourne • Monash University • La Trobe University • • • John Benjamins Publishing Company Routledge Brill Cambridge Emerald Group

Pragmatics & Pragmatics online • Editorship • Editor-in-Chief Gunter Senft – Adriana Bolívar – Charles Briggs – Walter De Mulder – Helmut Gruber – Sophia Marmaridou • Search for review editor

Pragmatics & Pragmatics online Board of reviewers (in addition to IPr. A CB) Jannis Androutsopoulos (London), Peter Auer (Freiburg), Richard Bauman (Bloomington, Indiana), Carol Berkenkotter (Minneapolis), Piotr Cap (Lodz), Louise Cummings (Nottingham), Frances D. Erlich (Caracas), Martina Faller (Manchester), Irene Fonte (Ottawa), Ad Foolen (Nijmegen), Luisa Granato (La Plata, Argentina), Marianne Gullberg (Nijmegen), Elly Ifantidou (Athens), Konstanze Jungbluth (Frankfurt/Oder), Kuniyoshi Kataoka (Aichi, Japan), Maria Sifianou (Athens), Ken Turner (Brighton), Angeliki Tzanne (Athens), Rodney Williamson (Ottawa), Ruth Wodak (Lancaster)

Pragmatics & Pragmatics online Procedures • • • - submission - reviewing 2 special issues in preparation 3 requests for special issues 10 papers in revision 22 papers in refereeing stage 22 papers recently rejected

Pragmatics & Pragmatics online • Abstracting & ranking: – Articles are indexed and/or abstracted in • the MLA International Bibliography • (from volume 15, 2005) in Elsevier Bibliographic Databases • and ( from volume 18, 2008) in ISI Web of Knowledge (Institute for Scientific Information, Thomsen): – – – ERIH Social Sciences Citation Index Social Research Arts and Humanities Citation Index Journal Citation Reports / Social Sciences Edition

Pragmatics & Pragmatics online Principles • Paper copies to libraries and members who pay extra • Online access for all members • Open access for all older issues (12 -month embargo period) To be developed: • Online access for libraries • Open access via e. Language

Handbook of Pragmatics • Editors: Jan-Ola Östman & Jef Verschueren, et. al. • Loose-leaf annual installments since 1995 • Online since 2002 • 10 thematic paperback volumes being published in 2009 -2010

Future conferences Manchester 2011 Theme: Pragmatics and its interfaces

12 th International Pragmatics Conference Manchester July 17 -22, 2011

Local site committee • Chair: Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen (Mcr) • Iris Bachmann (Mcr), Kate Beeching (UWE), Diane Blakemore (Salford), Martina Faller (Mcr), Steven Jones (Mcr), Ivan Leudar (Mcr), Lynne Murphy (Sussex), Thanh Nyan (Mcr), Ken Turner (Brighton), Richard Waltereit (Newcastle)

The University of Manchester • Introduction to The University of Manchester • The School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures • Location

Manchester • History • Culture • Innovation • Industry • Learning

Connections By Air • Manchester International Airport • 20 minutes by car or train from The University of Manchester • 200 international destinations By Train • 2½ Hrs from London and Eurostar

Conference Facilities SCAN Building • 1, 100 seat theatre – divides into 600/400 • 1 seminar room x 160 • 2 seminar rooms x 80 • 2 seminar rooms x 60 • 18 seminar rooms x 20 -30 • State of the art IT • Catering and 500 sqm exhibition area

Accommodation • Two 3* hotels at the University • En-suite student bedrooms • Standard student bedrooms • 3*, 4* and 5* accommodation available in the nearby city centre hotels

Social Programme Welcome Reception at Manchester Town Hall Conference Dinner hosted at a local place of interest – museums, sports venues, galleries Excursions such as: • Historic Chester • Stately Homes and Parks • Lake District • Imperial War Museum • Tour of Manchester

Future conferences Manchester 2011 • Composition of the International Conference Committee • Call for papers – by April 2010

Future conferences Call for proposals - Launch: September 2009 - Deadline: end January 2010 - Decision procedure and timing

Membership • 1143 • 345 down from 2008 • ‘normal’ pattern: abstract submission year vs. conference year • unequal geographical distribution persists (but minor signs of improvement)

Elections 2011 • Procedures – Decision on ex officio members (max. 10) – Candidacy of present CB members & election of max. 15 – Nominations for extra positions on CB – Elections – Nomination & election of President • Timing

Elections 2011 • IPr. A President: 2006 -2011: Sachiko Ide (Linguistics, Tokyo). • She was preceded from 2000 to 2005 by Susan Ervin. Tripp (Psychology, Berkeley), from 1995 to 1999 by Ferenc Kiefer (Linguistic Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest), from 1991 to 1994 by Sandra Thompson (Linguistics, Santa Barbara), and from 1986 to 1990 by John Gumperz (Anthropology, Berkeley).

Elections 2011 • Members of the IPr. A Consultation Board (2006 -2011): Keiko Abe (Tokyo), Charles Antaki (Loughborough), Michael Bamberg (Worcester, MA), Josie Bernicot (Poitiers), Rukmini Bhaya Nair (Delhi), Adriana Bolívar (Caracas), Charles Briggs (Berkeley), Helena Calsamiglia (Barcelona), Teresa Carbó (Mexico City), Walter De Mulder (Antwerp), Susan Ervin-Tripp (Berkeley), Helmut Gruber (Vienna), Yueguo Gu (Beijing), John Gumperz (Santa Barbara), Susanne Günthner (Münster), Auli Hakulinen (Helsinki), William Hanks (Berkeley), Krisadawan Hongladarom (Bangkok), Dell Hymes (Charlottesville), Sachiko Ide (Tokyo), Alexandra Jaffe (Long Beach), Andreas Jucker (Zürich), Ferenc Kiefer (Budapest), Manfred Kienpointner (Innsbruck), Stephem Levinson (Nijmegen), Sophia Marmaridou (Athens), Luisa Martín Rojo (Madrid), Yoshiko Matsumoto , Stanford), Bonnie Mc. Elhinny (Toronto), Michael Meeuwis (Gent), Jacob Mey (Odense), Jan-Ola Östman (Helsinki), Marina Sbisà (Trieste), John Searle (Berkeley), Gunter Senft (Nijmegen), Anna-Brita Stenström (Bergen), Paul Takahara (Kobe), Elizabeth Traugott (Stanford), Yorick Wilks (Sheffield), John Wilson (Belfast)

IPr. A General Assembly • Questions? • Enjoy the afternoon