LINGUIST List 21.2768 Thu Jul 01 2010 Calls: Discourse Analysis, Historical Ling, Ling & Literature/Poland Editor for this issue: Elyssa Winzeler <elyssalinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Dorota Guttfeld, (Re)Visions of History in Language and Fiction Message 1: (Re)Visions of History in Language and Fiction Date: 01-Jul-2010 From: Dorota Guttfeld <revisionsumk.pl> Subject: (Re)Visions of History in Language and Fiction E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: (Re)Visions of History in Language and Fiction Date: 19-Nov-2010 - 20-Nov-2010 Location: Toruń, Poland Contact Person: Dorota Guttfeld Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://revisions.umk.pl Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Historical Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Translation Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2010 Meeting Description: The conference will be devoted to issues of retelling, rewriting, and representation of the past in fiction and political discourse, and their translations and adaptations; to the discussion of how history becomes a text, and how texts create history. Within the category of 'fiction', we invite the discussion of traditional literary genres and film, as well as less commonly researched text types: comic books, graphic novels, computer games and role- playing games, blogs and websites. Call for Papers We welcome submissions in the following research areas: - Personal and collective history, memory and identity in language and fiction - Ideological visions of history, postcolonial perspectives and revisions - Censorship, propaganda, power relations and re-evaluation of the past in literary fiction and discourse - Translation and adaptation as re-writing and re-assessment of history - Interactive history, historical games and reenactment - History, alternative history and future history in speculative fiction - Perception, stylistic and textual markers of historic authenticity - Discourses and rhetoric of historic and political change - Discursive production and reproduction of ideologies - Intertextuality and mediation of historical events Submission of abstracts: September 15, 2010 (extended deadline) Notification of acceptance: September 22, 2010 Registration deadline: September 30, 2010 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 01-Jul-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.