AMPRA AMERICAN PRAGMATICS ASSOCIATION

Promote activities and exchanges the field of pragmatics; support interaction and scholarly debate among researchers, instructors, and students representing different subfields of pragmatics, with particular regard to the linguistic, cognitive, social, inter-cultural and inter-language paradigms; provide forum for researchers who are looking for new tools and methods in the investigation of human language and communication, in order to thereby better understand the role of pragmatic competence in language acquisition and development as well as in the process of communication