ITAP - International Association for Teaching Pragmatics

📣 Save the date! The registration period for the ITAP Annual Conference 2026 is now open.

📅 Conference date: June 1st, 2026
📍/ 💻 Universitat de Barcelona, Spain / online

🗓️ Last day to register: May 4th, 2026

We look forward to seeing you in Barcelona or online 🙂

🔗 Complete the registration form here: https://forms.gle/zYXiGsvP1HrM6AAf8

📢 We are pleased to announce that registration for this year's ITAP Annual Conference is open!

🖊 Registration deadline: May 4th, 2026

📅 Conference date: June 1st, 2026
📍/ 💻 Universitat de Barcelona, Spain / online

Registration fees:
▫️Online attendee: Free 🎁
▫️In-person attendee: 20€
▫️Presenter ➡️ in person: 30€ / online: 15€

We look forward to seeing you in Barcelona or online 🙂

➡️ For more information, please visit our website: https://www.ub.edu/itap-association/?page_id=1435

📚 The "XXVII Jornadas de Estudios de Lingüística" (EN: 27th Conference on Linguistics Studies) took place the 11, 12 and 13 March at the University of Alicante, Spain 🏛️

👏 Two members of our executive board presented the following:

▫️Carmen Maíz-Arévalo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid ): "Marcar el vacío: la creación de la laguna de investigación en resúmenes científicos en inglés y en español." (EN: Establishing the gap: Constructing the gap in scientific abstracts in English and Spanish.)

▫️Sonia López-Serrano (Universidad de La Laguna ): "Pragmática en la comunicación académica: ¿La intención es lo que cuenta?" (EN: Pragmatics in academic communication: Is intention what matters most?)

📸 1: Speakers' group photo
📸 2: Carmen Maíz-Arévalo
📸 3: Sonia López-Serrano and Mª Mar Galindo Merino
📸 4: Mª Gabriela Amador Solano, Sonia López-Serrano and Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

📢 Don't miss out on our upcoming event this Thursday!

💡"Stories in a Distracted World: A roundtable discussion"

📅 March 12th, 2026
🕔 5:30 - 7:00 pm (CET)
💻 Online via Zoom
🎁 Free

➡️ Swipe for more details

📢 Only one week left to submit your proposals for this year's ITAP Annual Conference!

💡Conference Theme: The Pragmatics of written communication

🗣️ Our keynote speakers will be Andrew D. Cohen, Folkert Kuïken, Ineke Vedder, and Wei Ren

📅 Conference date: June 1st, 2026
📍/ 💻 Universitat de Barcelona, Spain / online

📩 We look forward to reading your abstracts

➡️ For more details about the swipe or visit our webpage events section

🔗 https://www.ub.edu/itap-association/?page_id=1435

📢 We are pleased to announce our upcoming event:

💡"Stories in a Distracted World: A roundtable discussion"

📅 March 12th, 2026
🕔 5:30 - 7:00 pm (CET)
💻 Online via Zoom
🎁 Free

🔗 https://ub-edu.zoom.us/j/99287840348?pwd=KNimj8ow6UMbkjrTYeABn4nwAcSR3W.1

📢 The call for papers for this year's ITAP Annual Conference is open!

💡Conference theme: The pragmatics of written communication

📅 Deadline: 2nd of March, 2026

📩 We look forward to reading your abstracts!

➡️ Swipe for more information on the CFP

🔗 https://www.ub.edu/itap-association/?page_id=1435

📢 We're excited to announce this year's ITAP Annual Conference!

💡Conference Theme: The Pragmatics of written communication

🎤 Keynote speakers: Andrew D. Cohen, Ineke Vedder, Folkert Kuiken and Wei Ren

📅 June 1st, 2026
📍/💻 Universitat de Barcelona, Spain / online

📩 We welcome your proposals until March 2nd

🔗 For more details check our webpage events section: https://www.ub.edu/itap-association/?page_id=1435

📢 We are delighted to announce the Call for Papers for this year's ITAP Annual Conference is open!

💡Conference Theme: The Pragmatics of written communication

🗣️ Our keynote speakers will be Andrew D. Cohen, Folkert Kuïken, Inekke Vedder, and Wei Ren

📅 Conference date: June 1st, 2026
📍/ 💻 Universitat de Barcelona, Spain / online

📩 We look forward to reading your abstracts

➡️ For more details about the swipe or visit our webpage: https://www.ub.edu/itap-association/?page_id=1435

✨️ Wishing you a wonderful holiday season and all the best for the coming year 🎄We are very grateful for your continued support and we cannot wait to share even more with you the coming year!

#2026

📣 New book alert 📣

📘 "Acquiring Pragmatic and Intercultural Communicative Competences in the Digital Era: A Telecollaboration Study"

🖊️ By Sofia Di Sarno-García

🔍 This book explores second language pragmatic development and intercultural communicative competence acquisition through telecollaboration. It shows how telecollaborative environments are appropriate for the development of these two competences and how they are inextricably interrelated.

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📅 January 2026

🔗 https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/acquiring-pragmatic-and-intercultural-communicative-competences-in-the-digital-era-9781350454347/

📢 The ITAP Fall Seminar is approaching and we are very excited!

💡Topic: The pragmatics of humour

🗓️ December 1st, 2025

🕒 15:00 - 18:00 (CET)

📍/ 💻 Hybrid: Complutense University of Madrid .complutense / online

🖊️ Just one day left to register!

🔗 Link to register: https://forms.gle/hfXYj2mwEyz8hXow8