6th Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference XPRAG.it 2026

The 6th Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference (XPRAG.it 2026) applies empirical and experimental methods to the study of language use in context—how speakers communicate beyond the literal meaning of words through implicature, common ground, perspective-taking, and pragmatic inference. As a satellite of the broader XPRAG community, the Italian conference has developed a distinctive identity bridging formal pragmatic theory and cognitive science.

Linguists, cognitive scientists, developmental psychologists, and computational researchers attend to present studies on scalar implicature, reference resolution, irony, politeness, and the acquisition of pragmatic competence in children and second-language learners. XPRAG.it 2026 is especially valuable for researchers combining formal semantic-pragmatic theory with psycholinguistic experimentation, and for those interested in cross-linguistic variation in pragmatic phenomena across Romance and other language families.