We are happy to announce that the abstract submission portal for XPRAG 2025 is now open on OpenReview. The abstract submission deadline will be on April 14th 2025. 

We are excited that the following invited speakers have confirmed their participation: 

• Prof. Manuel Bohn, Leuphana University

• Prof. Richard Breheny, University College London

• Prof. Sue Fletcher Watson, University of Edinburgh

• Prof. Robert Hawkins, University of Wisconsin

• Prof. Jennifer Hu, Harvard University

• Prof. Judith Tonhauser, University of Stuttgart

We invite submissions of abstracts from any area of experimental pragmatics, including from a developmental, clinical, neuroscientific or processing perspective as well as formal/computational approaches to pragmatics. We also invite submissions from researchers in philosophy, experimental psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, anthropology, and other cognitive sciences that use experimental methods to investigate semantic and pragmatic theories, as well as communication more generally.  

As a reminder, this year’s edition of XPRAG will take place at the University ofCambridge, UK from the 17^thto the 19^th of September 2025. 

Submissions from first authors who are PhD researchers or early post-doctoral researchers (no more than 2 years from award of PhD) will be considered for the Sam Glucksberg Student Prize granted to the best presentation (please tick the relevant box on OpenReview)

Important links 

Conference Website:https://www.xprag2025.com

Information for submitting abstracts:https://www.xprag2025.com/call-for-papers 

Abstract submission portal: https://openreview.net/group?id=XPrag/2025/Conference

Please note that submitting authors need to have or to create a profile on OpenReview. Whereas new profiles with an institutional email will be activated automatically, new profiles created without an institutional email will go through a moderation process that can take up to two weeks. This is a feature of OpenReview which we cannot change. Please create your OpenReview account now. 

Contact: xprag2025@mmll.cam.ac.uk

*Indicative registration fees for students: £150 including coffee breaks and lunch every day

**Researchers from low-income countries whose abstract is selected for the conference and who struggle to meet the cost of registration fees will be invited to email the conference organising team, once the results from the review process are known. 

Please feel free to share this Call for Abstracts with colleagues and email lists of interest.

We’re looking forward to receiving your abstracts !

The XPRAG XI organising committee

Napoleon Katsos, Mireia Cabanes Calabuig, Joe Cowan, Nina Haket, Dimitrios Kastanas, Cecile Larralde, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Holly Sutherland, Songqiao Xie