IPrA2025 Call for Papers is out! 📑 🌏 Theme: #Pragmatics in #action First step: 📝 Panel proposals 🗓 June 15, 2024 💻 All the information regarding 🔶️ plenary speakers 🔶️ formats 🔶️ participation 🔶️ scholarships/grants 🔶️ awards, etc. pragmatics.international/page/CfP2025

📢New paper alert! 📝 Responses to conversational humour: An analytical framework Check out my latest paper published in Journal of Pragmatics (available Open Access): authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S03… #Humour #EMCA #InteractionalPragmatics

Humor authors: there is still time to add your book to the online book exhibit for the ISHS 2024 conference. The final deadline is April 17th. You do not need to be presenting at the conference to have your scholarly book exhibited. #humor inside.tamuc.edu/academics/coll…

Putting the finishing touches on the slides for my first plenary talk!!👨‍💻 In this talk tonight for the 34th Conference of the International Society for Humor Studies, I'll discuss responding to humour in interaction and considerations for a more nuanced theory of humour!

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Honored to be recognized as one of the World’s Top 2% most-cited scientists in the world in any field (and rank 437 in the field of Language and Linguistics), according to the latest list published by Stanford University! Thanks to you all for reading and citing me! @HASSUQ

As AI makes information abundant, the real scarcity shifts elsewhere! A thought-provoking piece and a pleasant read by Salvatore Attardo Salvatore Attardo salvatoreattardo.substack.com/p/the-universa…

Is it really true that online discourse contain more impoliteness than face-to-face? No, but there are other differences (though both demonstrate reciprocity). Check out this new article: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S03…

A welcome challenge: making complex ideas accessible enough to resonate beyond their boundaries. Giving an invited talk on the pragmatics of humour to postgraduate linguistics students at Universiti Malaya – a shift from specialist #Pragmatics or #HumourStudies audiences.

🚨 Sociopragmatics Symposium 2025 (SpS2025) 🚨 A forum for scholarly exchange on language, culture, and interaction, with a regional focus on East Asia. 🔗 shorturl.at/Rk7FT 📢 Please share this announcement with colleagues and networks!

⏳️ 3 weeks to IPrA2025 🥳🥳🥳 It's time to visit the event space on Exordo and explore the programme 🔍 *sessions appearing as double are hybrid

📢 Symposium Announcement Join us at the upcoming one-day symposium: Bridging Pragmatic Competence and Interactional Competence 🗓 Friday, 20 June 2025 8:30am–5:30pm 📍 07-222 Parnell Building, UQ St Lucia 🔗 Details and program available at: 👉 languages-cultures.uq.edu.au/event/bpcics20…

Big news! Next IPrA 2027 will be in Helsinki! Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen and myself are the co-chairs. Welcome! IPrA2025 in Brisbane has been amazing 🤩

How do two people hearing the same person, say the same words, intoned in the same way, in the same context, come to wildly differing interpretations as to what was meant? With Sam Bourgeois we explore Pragmatics in Contested Interpretation PALA PALA Manchester Metropolitan Uni

🎤 DCI-5 has been announced 🥳 #pragmatics #interaction #discourse #culture 📥 Abstract submission deadline: September 22 📍 Brisbane, UQ 🗓 November 27-28

ICDP-4 Panel on “The Pragmatics of Online Public Shaming” co-organized by Pilar Blitvich Garces-Conejos and Michael Haugh. To submit an abstract, please send a document of no more than 300 words to [email protected] before 12 September 2025. mp.weixin.qq.com/s/oNTkQYdfH6X2…

🗣 Coming up on Tuesday for UQ Vice-Chancellor's scholars 💭 #language #interaction #culture #competence

Polished, predictable, and endlessly repetitive — that’s the “voice” of ChatGPT. In my new piece for The Conversation, I explain why this poses a real threat to human creativity, and how AI talk differs from real human conversation. Lancaster University theconversation.com/chatgpt-only-t…