PALA 2004 - New York University

Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, July 25 - 28

Detailed Conference Program

Sunday, July 25

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5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Early Registration

Weinstein Dormitory, 5-11 University Place

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Monday, July 26

8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Registration

Outside Room 703

   

11:00 - 5:00

Publishers' Displays

Room 702

   
 

9:00-10:30 AM, Welcome and Opening Plenary, Room 703

The Shape of Meaning

Háj Ross, Professor of English, University of North Texas

 

10:30 - 11:00 AM

Coffee Break

Hemmerdinger (1st Floor)

   
 

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM, Parallel Session 1 (6 Sessions)

Room 701

Room 703

Room 704

Room 705

Room 706

Chair: Lesley Jeffries

Characterization and Conceptual Metaphor: A Cognitive Linguistics Approach to the Psychological Description of Characters in The Sculptress
Nuria Alfaro Martínez

Chair: Jonathan V. Culpeper

All Men's Faces Are True, Whatsome'er Their Hands: Hands in 100 Novels, 1721-1997
Martin Gliserman

Chair: Heidi L. Eichbauer

A Rhetoric of Metamorphosis: Richard Crashaw's Grotesque Imagery
Mr. Shun-liang Chao

Chair: Bronwen Thomas

Revisiting Katherine Mansfield's "The Fly"-With Special Reference to Her Verbal Exploitation
Ken Nakagawa

Chair: Urszula I Clark

Celebrating the Stage: Metatheatrical Conventions in Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good and The Love of the Nightingale
Laila Rizk

Cognitive Poetics and the Unrestricted Economy of the Sign: A Necessary Anthropo-Semiotic Grounding
Ulf Cronquist
Collocational Analysis as a Stylistic Discovery Procedure: The Case of Flannery O'Connor's Eyes
Donald E. Hardy
Pre- and Post-modern Rhetorics of Silence
hillary kelleher
Tackling the Textual Iceberg: New Perspectives on Hemingway's "A Very Short Story"
Simona Moti
Reconstructing Identity in Peter Carey's Jack Maggs
Ms Santisa Viljoen
Longings, Departures and Hope in The Wild Iris
Miriam Windham
"Maps Whose Portraits Have Nothing to Do with Surface": Approaches to Charting Semantics in a Literary Corpus Through a Study of The English Patient
Helen Price
Reading Rochester's Libertines: Action and Evaluation in Selected Lyrics
Gordon Fulton
The Hidden Message of Agatha Christie in The Mystery of the Blue Train--from the Perspective of Variation
Hiromi Murakami
Allusion in British Detective: Presence of the Past
Irina Tryshchenko
The Charm of Bestseller Fiction: A Cognitive Stylistic View of Characterization and Text Evaluation
Amany El-Shazly
Stylistics and Language Corpora: Where Did it All Go Wrong?
Martin Wynne
Local Interpretation & the Syntax of Keats' "To Autumn"
Robin J. Sowards
The Linguistics of Discworld
Jeannine M. Fontaine
You Are What You Speak: Code-Switiching as Position-Taking in Simon Vestdijk's Pastorale 1943
Chantelle N. Warner
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1:00 - 2:00 PM

LUNCH

Hemmerdinger (1st Floor)

   
 

2:00 - 4:00 PM, Parallel Session 2 (6 Sessions)

Room 701

Room 703

Room 704

Room 705

Room 706

THE 2nd PALA [SIG]-COG THEME SESSION
Note: This session is 4 hours, and does not parallel the rest of the sessions.SESSION 1
2:00-2:10 Opening: Michael Burke
2:10-2:30
Cognition, Style, and Poetics: Toward a Theory of Literature
Margaret Freeman

2:30-2:50
Using a Measurement of Subjectivity in Stylistic Analysis
Claibourne Rice

2:50-3:10
How Cognition Can Augment Stylistic Analysis
Michael Burke

3:10-3:20 Respondent: Háj Ross
3:20-3:40
Session discussion
Chair: H
áj Ross

3:40-4:00 Coffee Break

SESSION 2
4:00-4:20

Schemas in Literary Analysis: The Mutually Motivated Hypothesis
Mette Steenberg

Note: Session 2 continues in
Parallel Session 3 (no break here).

Chair: Ruth E Page

Multiple Literacy and Multiple Selves: Literacy Comparisons Between a 3d Virtual World and the Human Experience
Judy Bertonazzi

Chair: Maxine A. Morrin

The Colour of News: The Visual Language of Television News
Paul Mercer

Chair: David J. Gorman

Grammatical Gender Vs. Sex of the Characters: Generic Nouns, Gender and Allegory in the Translation of the Fable
Charlotte Schapira

Chair: Sharon L. Lattig

Droppin' the Beat: Exploring Rhythms in Rap Music
Jeffrey R. Quackenbush

Net Art -- "New Worlds" of Literature?
Prof. Dr. Dr. Ernest W. B. Hess-Luettich
"An Axis of Evil" and "Must" in the State of the Union Address
Haruko Sera
Modernist Poetics of Estrangement: Pound's Answer to Mallarmé
Anne Birien
The Metrical Structure of Taiwanese Nursery Rhymes: A Corpus Study
Yuchau E. Hsiao
Never Ask Books - the REDES Project
Jan Auracher
Now You See It, Now You Don't: Transitivity and Agentivity in Baraka's Poem "Incident"
Dr. Mary Ellen Ryder
Recovering Lost Voices: Translation and Eighteenth-century Poetics
James Mulholland
What Is "Complex Rhythm"?: A New Approach
Nila Friedberg
What Are the Differences in Mind Style among Dickens's First-person Narrators (Esther, David, and Pip)?
Masahiro Hori
There's Nothing Lightweight about Translating Light Verse: A Linguistic Explanation of Some of the Reasons behind the Challenge
Elisabeth Kuhn
Two Hebrew Translations of Ernesto Sábato's The Tunnel
Malka Muchnik
Metabola and Norm
Tinatin Bolkvadze
       
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3:45 - 4:30

Coffee Break

Hemmerdinger (1st Floor)

   
 

4:30 - 6:00 PM, Parallel Session 3 (6 Sessions)

Room 701

Room 703

Room 704

Room 705

Room 706

4:20-4:40
Textual Analysis in a Cognitive Semiotics Perspective
Line Brandt

4:40-5:00
Figurative Language and the Representation of Consciousness in Fiction
Elena Semino

5:00-5:10 Respondent: Don Freeman
5:10-5:30 Session discussion
Chair: Don Freeman


5:30-6:00 General discussion session
Chair: M. Burke

Chair: James Mulholand

Revisiting Phonetic Iconicity: An Empirical Study
Olívia Fialho,
Sonia Zyngier

Chair: John Douthwaite

Back to the Future: The Centrality of FID to Stylistics
Geoff Hall

Chair: Jeannine M. Fontaine

Stories in Time: A Tentative Typology of Temporality in Fiction
Mattias Hansson

Chair: Derek Bousfield

The Icon Machine (On the Logics of Narrative Competence)
Henrik Schärfe

Kanji as a Cognitive Medium for Poetry: Fenollosa Revisited
Masako K. Hiraga
The Emergence of a New Style: An Historical Approach
Dr Joe Bray
Trainspotting in Wessex, 1864-66: Temporal Transparency in Thomas Hardy's Desperate Remedies
Ken Ireland
A Linguistic and Non-communicative Approach to Narratology
Marianne Wolff Lundholt
Immediate Memory Volume at All Linguistic Levels and the Structure of Verse Lines
Marina Jikia
The Historical Transformations of Free Indirect Style
Violeta Sotirova
Narrative Functions of Myths in Futuristic Stories
Britt Johanne Farstad
Personal Narratives or Personal Recounts: How Topic Genre Determines Storytelling Sub-genre
Marina Lambrou
       
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6:00 - 8:00 PM, Welcoming Reception, Hemmerdinger (1st Floor)

 

Tuesday, July 27

11:00 - 5:00

Publishers' Displays

Room 702

   
 

9:00 - 11:00 AM, Parallel Session 4 (6 Sessions)

Room 701

Room 703

Room 704

Room 705

Room 706

Chair: Barbara Dancygier

Interpreting Joyce's "Eveline": Semiotic and Cognitive Approaches Compared
Olga Vorobyova

Chair: Sonia Zyngier

Does Reading in the Bathtub Differ from Reading Between Bookshelves?
Bettina Fouda,
Eleni Mourtos

 

Chair: Marina Lambrou

Classic Fairy Tales and the Teaching of English as a Second Language
Maxine Morrin

Chair: Anne Birien

Faded Sense: The Poetics of Cliché in the Modernist Text
Dr Liz Barry

Mental Events and Conceptual Interaction
Nuria Alfaro Martínez
Intimate Relationships and Age Gap: The Influence of Fiction
Anna Chesnokova, Milena Mendes
  Not You, Not Me, but the Company: Discourse Participants and Metaphor in Business Correspondence
Didar Akar
Metaphorically Motivated Compounds as Approximators: A Cognitive View
Tetyana Tolcheyeva
Radical Dialectics: A Cognitive Approach to Experimental Poetry
Camille Martin
Complexity and Evaluation of Literary Texts - Results of an Experiment
Willie van Peer
  What Can this Text Refer To? Ways of Using Pedagogical Stylistics in Language Through Literature
Judit Zerkowitz
"Hieroglyph of an Epoch": A Metaphor of Memory in the Works of the Austrian-Jewish Writer and Psychoanalyst Anna Maria Jokl
Nikola Herweg
  Affect and Literature: An Empirical Study
Tania Shepherd  
  Anthropology and Teaching Literature
Professor Giuseppe Longo
Background Recovery by Viewpoint Shift: Indexicals in Gabriel Aresti's Poetry
Koldo J. Garai
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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Coffee Break

 Hemmerdinger (1st Floor)

   
 

11:30 - 12:30 AM, Plenary Session, Room 703

The Origin of the Imagination

Mark Turner, Institute Professor and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Case Western Reserve University

 

12:30-1:30

 Lunch

Hemmerdinger

   
 

1:30-3:30 PM, Parallel Session 5 (6 Sessions)

Room 701

Room 703

Room 704

Room 705

Room 706

Chair: Gordon D Fulton

Sound-patterns and Meaning in Keats' "Bright Star"
Stephanie Smolinsky

Chair: Geoff M. Hall

Thought Presentation in Narrative: How Far Does it Compare with Speech and Writing Presentation?
Dan Mcintyre, Elena Semino, John Heywood,
Mick Short

Chair: hillary s kelleher

The Soul Remembering: Stylistics, Artistic Themes and the Psychology of Creation
Dr Tom Barney

Chair: Claiborne Rice

Predicting Emotions: Toward a Model Determining the Emotional Valence of Texts
Ourania Tsiknaki

Chair: Elizabeth C Barry

Hypertext Narrative, Gender and Possible Worlds
Dr Ruth Page

Lyric Coherence: The Sequencings and Simultaneities of Perception
Sharon Lattig
Speech and Thought Presentation in the Crime Novels of Andrea Camilleri
John Douthwaite
Poetics of Symmetry: The Snowflake as the Unifying Metaphor in Orhan Pamuk's "Snow"
Isil Bas,
Ozlem Ogut
Impoliteness, Preference Organization and Conducivity
Derek Bousfield
Looking at the Old with New Eyes: Literary Biography in Carol Shields's Novels
Dr. Rocío Montoro
The Poem Between the Stanzas
Debra San
The Leech and Short Model of Speech and Thought Presentation (Revised by Short and Semino) Applied to a Corpus of Italian Texts
Lucia Ghisu
A Framework for Metaphor in Context
Eduardo Urios-Aparisi
Pragmatic Acts of Love
Dr Greg Watson
Communication with That Other World: Prospect(us)of an Investigation
Katie Wales
Virtual World of Emily Dickinson's Poetry: Cognitive Approach to Synaesthesia
Inna Redka, Kseniya Shabanova
Unambiguous Free Indirect Thought? An Approach from a Consideration of Ambiguous Cases
Reiko Ikeo
Is Shklovsky's Automatization Doctrine Immune to Automatization?
Mr. Valery Timofeev
The Untold Pleasures and Pains of the Body
Gabriella Hima
What Do You Do in San Francisco? Test Worlds in Raymond Carver
Huda Al-Mansoob
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3:30 - 4:00 PM

 Coffee Break

Hemmerdinger (1st Floor)

   
 

4:00-5:30 PM, Parallel Session 6 (6 Sessions)

Room 701

Room 703

Room 704

Room 705

Room 706

Chair: Per K Hansen

Between the Infra-thin and the Green Box: On Duchamp's Notion of Literary Painting
Jonathan Bass

Chair: Donald E. Hardy

A Corpus Based Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis: A Mixed Methodology
Dean Hardman

Chair: Katie M. Wales

Reading Backwards, Living Forwards on the Brink of Ever-changing Ideals
Alcina de Sousa

Chair: Donald C. Freeman

A Cognitive Approach to Rhetorical Theory: Integrating Audience
Jennifer Harding, James Wynn

Chair: Maria Palacas

Story Elements as Sets
Henrik Schärfe

Literature in Writing Vs. Literature in Films: Cross-modal Interpretation of Literary Works
Rumiko Oyama
More on Keywords: A Computational Analysis of Characters in Shakespeare
Jonathan Culpeper
Silent Game: The Stylistic 'Shadow' of a Poem and Readers' Meanings
Lesley Jeffries
Running the Blend: Cognitive Blending in "The Yachts" by William Carlos Williams
Wilbur Bennett III
Narratives of Human Nature: The Rhetoric of Discovery in Henry James and Mieke Bal
Jonathan Imber Shaw
Transdisciplinary Poetics: The Work of Arakawa and Gins
Jondi Keane
Hemingway's Style; Towards a Critically Sensitive Quantitative Analysis
Sameh Benna
The Poetics of Children's and Young Adult Fiction: Problems and Prospects
Clare Walsh
Tilting and Windmills: Genre Blending in the Rise of the Novel
Dr. Michael Sinding
Phenomenal Patterns: Narratology
Victoria Alexander
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Wednesday, July 28

11:00 - 5:00

Publishers' Displays

Room 702

   
 

9:00 - 11:00 AM, Parallel Session 7 (6 Sessions)

Room 701

Room 703

Room 704

Room 705

Room 706

Chair: Paul Simpson

Reconsidering the Unreliable Narrator
per Krogh Hansen

Chair: Dean Hardman

Searching for a Moral Message
Eirini Tsiknaki

Chair: Elisabeth D Kuhn

Cognitive Dissonance/Deferral in the Referential Mind: A Semantic Analysis of John Keats' Ode "To Autumn"
Heidi L. Eichbauer

Chair: Greg Watson

A Curse in Fools: A Speech Act in a Comedy
Moeko Okada

Chair: George L. Dillon

Foregrouding and Novelty
Sonia Zyngier,
Willie van Peer

What Is Narrative Perspective? A Non-modernist Answer
Robert Kawashima
Schiller in the Judgement of the Middle Class in the 19th Century
Yehong Zhang
Logics, Hermeneutics, and Semantics for Dialogues - a Peircean Approach
Daniel H. Rellstab
Pragmatic Analysis of Direct Discourse in Japanese Storytelling Art
Noriko Watanabe
Linguo-stylistic Peculiarities of Ambiguity: Creation in Henry James's the "Turn of the Screw"
Maryna Chernenko
Phraseological Units in Discourse: A Flashback and a Flashforward
Anita Naciscione
Response to and Acceptance of Violence in Literature: Cultural Differences
Paul Sopcak
Fighting Tolkien's Monster Critics-A Reassessment of Tolkien's Literary Style in The Lord of the Rings
Marjorie Cheung Ka Yee
Uncovering the Emotive Aspect in "Reporting Accidents" in the Egyptian Media
Mona Fouad Attia
Russian Formalism: Legacy and Future
David Gorman
A Phraseological Approach to Shakespeare's Wordplay
José L. Oncins-Martínez
Linguistic Constraints on the Representation of Violence about Rape
Pd Dr. Gesine Lenore Schiewer
Language, Literature and Identity in the English West Midlands
Urszula Clark
Theorizing Arabic Satirical Discourse: A Pragmastylistic Approach
Salwa Farag
A Stylistic Analysis of T. S. Eliot's "Obscurity" in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Longxing Wei
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11:00 - 11:30 AM

 Coffee Break

Heights Lounge (1st Floor)

   
 

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, Parallel Session 8 (5 Sessions)

Room 701

Room 703

Room 704

Room 705

Room 706

Chair: Ulf Cronquist

Metonymy in Political Protest Songs
Dr. Ralph Müller

Chair: Judit Zerkowitz

 "Ace in the Hole": Representations of Saddam's Capture in the British Press
Encarnación Hidalgo Tenorio,
Miguel A. Martínez-Cabeza

 

Chair: Santisa I Viljoen

Is Gender an Issue?: Vocative Exchange Between Men and Women in Early Modern English Comedies
Michi Shiina

Panel Discussion

The Nexus of Literary Design and Authorial Intent: Theory, Pedagogy, and Practice

Literary Theory and Authorial Intent: The Power of the Mind
Maria J. Palacas

Proper Names, Frame Metonymy, and Constructional Blends
Barbara Dancygier
Rhetoric and Ideology: Autobiographical Discourse, a Case in Point
José Luis Martínez-Dueñas
  Romanticism and Gender
Sema Taskin
Pedagogy: The Power of Belief
Arthur L. Palacas
The Function of Metonymy in Contemporary Poetry
Ewa Chrusciel
Dialogue in Hypertext Fiction - a Babel of Voices?
Bronwen Thomas
  The Importance of Being Non-fictional: Style and Non-fiction in Straight to Hell Magazine
John Heywood
Practice
Lydia Cooper
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1:00 - 2:00 PM

 Lunch

Heights Lounge (1st Floor)

   
 

2:00 - 3:00 PM, Plenary Session, Room 703

New Speech Acts for Old, or How to Make a Drama out of a Speech Act

Mick Short, Professor of English Language and Literature, Lancaster University

 

3:00 - 3:30 PM, Closing, Room 703

 

3:30-4:00 PM,

 Coffee Break

Heights Lounge (1st Floor)

 

 
 

4:00 - 6:00 PM, AGM, Room 703

 

7:00 - 9:00 PM, Conference Banquet, Hemmerdinger (1st Floor)

 

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