The American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA) comprises the countries of North, Central, and South America, and the Caribbean. AMPRA supports interaction and scholarly debate with particular regard to the linguistic, cognitive, historical, social, inter-cultural and inter-language paradigms of pragmatics.
The 4th Conference of the American Pragmatics Association is to be held on November 1-3, 2018 at the University at Albany, State University of New York (1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY, USA 12206). The goal of the conference is to promote both theoretical and applied research in pragmatics, and bring together scholars who are interested in different sub-fields of pragmatics.