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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><b>2nd International Conference on the Pragmatic Web</b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">"Building Common Ground on the Web"</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">22-23 Oct. 2007, Tilburg, The Netherlands</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">www.PragmaticWeb.info</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Keynote Speaker:</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT and Aachen University, Germany</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">TRUST AND COMMITMENT: Whether we look at our geo-political and</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">environmental context, work within and between organizations, or our local</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">communities, there has never been a greater need for understanding across</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">cultural, intellectual, and other boundaries.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Whether the context is international policy, distributed teamwork, e-</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">business, or community mobilisation, fundamentally, people must build</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">trust and commitment to common goals by talking and acting together.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">What role does the Web have to play in these complex processes?</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">GET PRAGMATIC: The study of "pragmatics" is driven by an interest in</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">action. It illuminates how it is that we manage to evolve mutual</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">understanding and commitments in conversation. Central to this perspective</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">is the understanding that the meaning of everything we say and do is</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">contextual. When contexts change, meanings change in conversations,</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">documents, and models of the world. This is something that we manage</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">fluently in face-to-face conversation, but when working on the Web over</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">space and time, tools must still support adaptation to new contexts. A</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">focus on pragmatics draws attention to how communicative actions are</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">performed via Web media.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Conference chairs:</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Simon Buckingham Shum, The Open University, UK</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Mikael Lind, University College of Borċs, Sweden</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, The Netherlands</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">For further information on the Pragmatic Web community and conference, plus </span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">full Registration details, go to: www. 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