Our theme allows the first PALA conference in the
“new world” to focus on both the old worlds and the new worlds of
poetics and linguistics. We invite abstracts and proposals for panel
discussions and workshops in the following and related areas of interest:
stylistics, narratology, literariness, literary linguistics, stylistics
and pedagogy, critical discourse analysis, gender and writing, literary
translation studies, linguistics and philosophy, metaphor, cognition,
cognitive poetics, pragmatics, text-linguistics, corpus linguistics,
text world theory, corpus stylistics, and statistical stylistics.
There have been many innovations and revisions in methodology and
approach in recent years, many of which are reflected in the list
above. We are especially receptive to proposals that look forward
toward the future–prosing new methods or approaches, suggesting improvements
in or confirming and expanding current methods or approaches, and
to proposals that look backward toward the origins of the approaches
used–reevaluating, critiquing, revising, or rehabilitating the methods
of the past. Also of interest will be papers that focus on novel forms
such as hypertext fiction or on older languages and literatures.
- Abstracts for papers should be 300-500 words,
and must include a title, the author's name, institutional affiliation,
mailing address, email address, and any special equipment needed
(overhead projectors will be available for all sessions).
- Abstracts for panel discussions and workshops
should also be 300-500 words, and must include the same information
as a paper abstract for both the organizer and each participant.
Papers will be scheduled in strictly enforced 30
minute blocks within 90 minute or 120 minute sessions, to allow members
of the audience to move from session to session between papers. Each
paper should be 20 minutes long, reserving 10 minutes for questions,
discussion, and moving from one room to another. Panel discussions
or workshops can be scheduled for either 90 or 120 minutes. (A longer
session may be possible by special request.)
Abstracts must be sent by email to david.hoover@nyu.edu
New Deadline: February 29, 2004
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