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Twentieth Anniversary

Experimental Pragmatics, which uses experimental methods to investigate  semantic and pragmatic theories, as well as communication more generally, emerged as a discipline in the late 1990's. It became clear almost immediately that workshops and meetings were important sources for exchanging ideas and sharing enthusiasm for this growing area. In 2005, a proper conference was held in Cambridge (UK) that brought together this growing community of researchers from philosophy, experimental psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, anthropology,  and other cognitive sciences.  Two years later, another was organized (this time in Berlin) and thus a biennial tradition was born. Since then, XPrag has taken place in Lyon, Barcelona, Utrecht, Chicago, Köln, Edinburgh, Pavia1  and Paris. National-level 'XPrag' events series have taken place in the UK, Germany, and Italy. 

The Eleventh Edition will be taking place in Cambridge again, an important location for the history of Experimental Pragmatics, with a celebratory character for the twentieth anniversary of what is considered by many to be the conventional date for the birth of the highly successful 'XPrag' conference series.

[1] from https://xpragx.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en