Experimental Pragmatics Conference 2025

The Experimental Pragmatics Conference 2025 (XPrag 2025) is the premier international venue for research that applies experimental and computational methods to the study of pragmatic phenomena — how speakers mean more than they literally say, and how listeners interpret utterances in context. Core topics include scalar implicatures, reference resolution, speech acts, common ground, perspective-taking, and the processing of figurative language, examined through psycholinguistic experiments, corpus studies, formal models, and cross-linguistic comparisons.

XPrag 2025 attracts linguists, cognitive scientists, psycholinguists, and computational researchers who share the conviction that pragmatic competence must be studied empirically rather than through introspection alone. The conference is particularly valuable for researchers working at the interface of formal semantics, cognitive psychology, and computational modeling, and for graduate students seeking a community that takes both theoretical rigor and experimental precision seriously.