Guidelines for posters

Poster Specifications

** Maximum poster size is 1m wide by 1.5m high.

** All posters must be professionally printed rather than constructed with scissors and glue.  Despite the cost, we strongly recommend that you have them laminated to avoid tearing.

** We recommend that you also bring a document wallet in which to place your handouts.  The wallet can stand below your poster and your handouts can be taken by interested parties throughout the conference.  Abundant feedback and personal contacts are strengths of the poster format, so you should provide an e-mail address in the handout for those who want to contact you later.

** Posters for IGALA 5 will be mounted with Velcro (supplied), but if you want to use your poster for future conferences, veterans recommend fitting your poster with metal rings to facilitate hanging.

** Posters will be exhibited throughout the conference (from Thursday morning to Saturday afternoon) and a dedicated poster session has been timetabled in the programme during which you should be available to answer questions.

**Judges from among the plenary speakers will select the best poster for a prize, so attention to the poster specifications and samples below is essential.

Poster Samples

If you are preparing a poster for the first time (or you need some inspiration), the International Pragmatics Association has kindly agreed to provide access to their sample posters.  The link below will take you to the website for the 2007 10th IPrA conference in Goteborg, Sweden.  The IGALA 5 conference team would like to endorse the poster style provided on that web page by Dorien Van de Mieroop because of its visual format.  Posters are a visual medium rather than strictly textual, and the most effective posters take advantage of this distinction.

IPrA Poster Samples
http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=*CONFERENCE2006&n=1297