
Welcome to Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change 4!
Discourse-Pragmatic Variation & Change (DiPVaC) is a biennial international conference series intended to further the quantitative analysis of variation and change at the level of discourse-pragmatics. Following the success of DiPVaC1 in 2012 at the University of Salford, U.K., DiPVaC2 in 2014 at Newcastle University, U.K., and DiPVaC3 in 2016 at the University of Ottawa, Canada, we are pleased to announce that DiPVaC4 will be held from 28 to 30 May 2018 at the University of Helsinki, Finland. The conference language is English.