“Pragmatics on the go” Conference

8.30am-on
Monday, June 17, Palazzo Maldura, Room G (upper floor)
Registration
9.00-9.15 Opening
9.15-10.15 Eva ALCÓN SOLER
Jaume I University, Spain
Teaching pragmatics in the EFL classroom
10.15-10.45 Pino CUTRONE
Nagasaki University, Japan
Examining the effects of pedagogical interventions on
pragmatic development in the Japanese EFL classroom
10.45-11.15 William COLLINS
Nagasaki University, Japan
Testing pragmatic English conversation skills in a Japanese
university speaking-exam
11.15-11.45 Phyllisienne GAUCI
University of Verona, Italy
Teaching L2 Pragmatics: from an empirical study to
recommendations for pedagogical practice
11.45-1.00
Lunch break (buffet on the ground floor)
1.00-1.30 Ana KEDVEŠ & Ana WERKMANN
J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia
Conversational Implicatures in Croatian EFL Classroom
1.30-2.00 Sabina HALUPKA REŠETAR
University of Novi Sad, Serbia
The pragmatic competence of undergraduate students of
English
2.00-2.30 Peyman SABET & Grace ZHANG
Curtin University, Australia
The elasticity of “I think”: stretching over L1 and L2 speakers
2.30-2.45
Short break
2.45-3.15 Marcin LEWANDOSKI
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Sports commentary on television and on the Internet: a crosslanguage
study of pragmalinguistic features of two media
genres
3.15-3.45 Phoenix LAM
Hong Kong Baptist University, China
Pragmalinguistic and socio-pragmatic features of academic
email messages: a comparison between academics and
students
3.45-4.15 Belinda CRAWFORD
University of Pisa, Italy
Pragmatic uses of personal pronouns in the financial discourse
of US vs. Italian multinationals: a contrastive case study
Chair:
Sara Gesuato
Chair:
Viviana Gaballo
Chair:
Emanuele Brambilla
Chair:
Dino Selvaggi

4.15-4.30 Short break
4.30-4.50 Karen GLASER
Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany
Deductive or inductive? The impact of teaching method on the
acquisition of pragmatic competence
4.50-5.10 Anna TREBITS
Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany
Pragmatic awareness in English as a foreign language, early
bilingual experience and tandem learning – an exploratory
study
5.10-5.30 Dino SELVAGGI
University of Calabria, Italy
Implicatures in mixed utterances: the response to codeswitchings
and borrowings in Spanish-Italian bilinguals
5.30-5.50 Lucia ABBATE
University of Messina, Italy
The ‘youth language’ of Italian communities on Internet in
Australia: pragmalinguistic and sociolinguistic aspects
5.50-6.00
End-of-day notices
Chair:
Phoenix Lam
8.00 Social dinner

8.30am-on
9.00-9.15
Tuesday, June 18, Palazzo Maldura, Room G (upper floor)
Registration
Announcements
9.15-10.15 Winnie CHENG
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Learning and teaching speech acts: Combining pragmatics and
corpus linguistics
10.15-10.45 Loredana POZZUOLI
University of Perugia, Italy
Universality and relativity in cross-cultural pragmatics: requests
and apologies in English and Italian
10.45-11.15 Yhara Michaela FORMISANO
University of Perugia, Italy
Scalar implicatures in first and second language: a note on
testing methodology
11.15-11.45 Nicola Sarah HALENKO
University of Central Lancashire, UK
The Computer-Animated Production Task (CAPT) – a new breed
of data collection instrument?
11.45-1.00
Lunch break (buffet on the ground floor)
1.00-1.30 Leyla Yined TELLO RUEDA
University of Tolima, Colombia
Enhancing pragmatic competence in an EFL context:
contributions from foreign language didactics
1.30-2.00 Anna FILIPI & Anne-Marie BARRAJA-ROHAN
Monash University, Australia
Opening the door to pragmatics in L2 teaching and learning
2.00-2.30 Viviana GABALLO
University of Macerata, Italy
Rethinking needs analysis in designing second/foreign language
programs based on computer-mediated communication in a
networked learning setting
2.30-2.45
Short break
2.45-3.15 Masako HOYE
Middlebury College, USA
Language attitude: WATASHI-GA and ANATA-GA in Japanese.
Are they really ‘Subject’? – native speakers’ ideology from
interviews
3.15-3.45 Andrea DEME
Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
Pragmatic functions of lengthening and filled pauses of
spontaneous child speech in child–adult interaction
Chair:
Francesca Bianchi
Chair:
Karen Glaser
Chair:
Belinda Crawford
Chair:
Ana Kedveš

3.45-4.15 Marco PINO
University of Verona, Italy
Improving Therapeutic Community educators’ awareness of
communicative strategies in spoken interaction
4.15-4.30
Short break
4.30-4.50 Federica FERRARI
University of Bologna, Italy
A multichannel method for improving text comprehension
4.50-5.10 Clara PIGNATARO
IULM – University of Milan, Italy
Pragmatics of ELF in Interpreting Scenarios
5.10-5.30 Chiara ZAMBORLIN
Nagoya University of Arts, Japan
The unexpected laughter: exploring the mechanisms of verbal
humor across cultures
5.30-5.50 Giulia GROSSO
Foreigners University of Siena, Italy
Building identities: intercultural pragmatics in interactions in
Italian L2 as lingua franca at the workplace
5.50-6.00
End-of-day notices
Chair:
Lisa DeWaard
6.45 Walking tour of the city centre

8.30am-on
9.00-9.15
Wednesday, June 19, Palazzo Maldura, Room G (upper floor)
Registration
Announcements
9.15-10.15 Kathleen BARDOVI-HARLIG
Indiana University, USA
Promoting pragmatics in the classroom for social and
academic interaction
10.15-10.45 Elena NUZZO
University “Roma Tre”, Italy
Comparing textbooks and TV series as sources of pragmatic
input for learners of Italian as a second language: the case of
compliments and invitations
Chair:
Sara Gesuato
10.45-11.15 Denise GASSNER
Macquarie University, Australia
Chair:
Developing lexico-pragmatic competence: An analysis of Sabina Halupka Rešetar
“thing” in L1 and L2 speaker employment interviews
11.15-11.45 Carmen MAIZ-ARÉVALO
Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Multicultural classrooms: a pragmatic minefield or a
breeding ground for teaching pragmatics? Raising students’
pragmatic awareness through online collaborative writing
11.45-1.00
Lunch break (buffet on the ground floor)
1.00-1.30 Emi MORITA
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Overcoming the over-generalized concept of “Japanese
politeness” in the language learning classroom
1.30-2.00 Marina CASTAGNETO & Miriam RAVETTO
University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Pragmatics for conversation: compliment and compliment
responses in native Italian and German speakers
2.00-2.30 Richard CHAPMAN
University of Ferrara, Italy
“You have no choice.” Pragmatic considerations in current
language test instruments
2.30-2.45
Short break
2.45-3.15 Anna DE MARCO & Emanuela PAONE
University of Calabria, Italy
The acquisition of the emotional competence in L2
learners through a specific instructional training
3.15-3.45 Toshihiko SUZUKI
Waseda University, Japan
What grammatical strategies van and should be taught
for the performance of four English speech acts
Chair:
Anna Filipi
Chair:
Sara Corrizzato

3.45-4.15 María Luisa CARRIÓ PASTOR & Miguel
CASAS-GÓMEZ
University of València, Spain
Identification of the pragmatic knowledge associated to
levels of language proficiency
4.15-4.30
Short break
4.30-4.50 Elena KOLTSOVA
Ivanovo State University, Russia
Pragmatics of anthroponymic nominations in
communication
4.50-5.10 Marion WEERNING
University of Palermo, Italy
"Denn", “eigentlich”, “überhaupt” – three "pragmatic
particles" in German
5.10-5.30 Emanuele BRAMBILLA
IUSLIT – University of Trieste, Italy
Source text analysis in interpreter training: switching on
the light in the pragmatic dark
5.30-5.50 Patrizia TORRICELLI
University of Messina, Italy
Pragmatic competence between “langue” and “langage”.
Some remarks on the teaching/learning of pragmatics in
L2.
5.50-6.00 Karin LUNDBERG & Patricia FRENZ-BELKIN
The City University of New York, USA
“Teacher! You need to give me my homework”: assessing
students’ needs for a pragmatics curriculum in academic
ESL
6.00-6.30
End-of-day notices
Chair:
Emi Morita

8.30am-on
9.00-9.15
Thursday, June 20, Palazzo Liviano, Aula Diano (upper floor)
Registration
Announcements
9.15-10.15
Winnie CHENG & Kathleen BARDOVI-HARLIG
QUESTION TIME
10.15-10.45 Francisco VIZCAÍNO-ORTEGA, Mercedes CABRERA-ABREU &
Carmen Nieves HERNÁNDEZ-FLORES
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Trends in the acquisition of falling and falling-rising tones
and their associated pragmatic interpretations in L2 English
prosody
10.45-11.15 Lisa DEWAARD
Clemson University, USA
A video-based approach to the DCT
11.15-11.45 Patxi LASKURAIN-IBARLUZEA
Illinois State University, USA
Instructional advantages of a pragmatic account of mood
distribution in Spanish
11.45-1.00
Lunch break (buffet on the ground floor)
Chair:
Sara Gesuato
Chair:
Carmen Maiz-Arévalo
1.00-1.30 Mark GRIFFITHS
Trinity College London, UK
Exploiting pragmatic competence in spoken second
language tests.
1.30-2.00 Zohreh ESLAMI
Texas A&M University, USA
Speech act data collection in a non-Western context: oral
and written DCTs in the Persian language
2.00-2.30 Marta GARCÍA
Göttingen University, Germany
Topic management in Spanish as a foreign language: taking
the initiative
2.30-2.45
Break
2.45-3.05 Sara CORRIZZATO
University of Verona, Italy
Learning English as a foreign language: are elementary
coursebooks a valuable tool for Italian students to gain
socio-pragmatic competences?
3.05-3.25 Elizaveta KACHATURYAN
University of Oslo, Norway
Pragmatic competence of bilingual children, or teaching
pragmatics to bilinguals
Chair:
Kristin Cardellio
Chair:
Toshihiko Suzuki

3.25-3.45 Daniela CESIRI
University of Venice, Italy
Evaluation in Academic Domains: Managing Criticism in
Archaeology Book Reviews
3.45-4.05 Manuel PADILLA CRUZ
University of Seville, Spain
An integrative proposal to teach direct and indirect
complaints in the ESL class
4.05-4.25 Mojca SORLI
Trojina – Institute for Applied Slovene Studies, Slovenia
Pragmatic components in lexicographic description –
practical implications for language teaching
4.25-4.40
Break
4.40-5.00 Zhihua HUANG
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China
Application of pragmatics in ESP teaching – incorporating
pragmatic competence into Business English syllabus design
5.00-5.20 Kristin CARDELLIO
Eckerd College, USA
Request strategies in an international service-learning
context: a study of Italian language learners
5.20-5.40 Teresa KNITTEL
University of Erfurt, Germany
Acquiring pragmatic competence for suggesting and
requesting in L2 Italian
5.40-6.00 Michele COSTAGLIOLA d’ABELE
University of Napoli, Italy
Traduire un ouvrage d’introduction à la pragmatique
linguistique. Analyse d’un cas méta-pragmatique au service
de l’enseignement/apprentissage des langues étrangères.
Translation of a handbook of pragmatics. The analysis of a
“meta-pragmatic” case for the teaching/apprenticeship of
foreign languages
6.00-6.15
Wrapping up
Chair:
Zohreh Eslami