LINGUIST List 21.5150 Sun Dec 19 2010 Calls: Ling & Literature/United Kingdom Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.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.     Jane Hodson , International Conference on Dialect and Literature Message 1: International Conference on Dialect and Literature Date: 17-Dec-2010 From: Jane Hodson <j.hodsonsheffield.ac.uk> Subject: International Conference on Dialect and Literature E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: International Conference on Dialect and Literature Date: 11-Jul-2011 - 13-Jul-2011 Location: Sheffield, United Kingdom Contact Person: Jane Hodson Meeting Email: j.hodsonsheffield.ac.uk Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature Call Deadline: 04-Mar-2011 Meeting Description: When an author writes a literary text either wholly or partly in dialect, he or she is making a conscious choice to represent something other than the standard language. This conference invites papers that explore this process. We welcome papers from across different periods, different genres and different geographical locations, including regional, social and world dialects. Questions that might be addressed include, but are not restricted to: -what purposes does the representation of dialect have in literary texts? -how do readers respond to the representation of dialect in literature? -which critical frameworks are appropriate for the interpretation of dialect in literary texts? -what methodologies can we borrow from linguistics in order to analyse dialect representation? -how does literary dialect differ from 'real' dialect? -can a distinction be drawn between dialect in literature and dialect literature? -what are the ideological dimensions of the representation of literary dialect? -how has the representation of dialect varied across time, place and genre? -how can we study audience response to the literary representation of dialect? This conference is being held to mark the concluding stage of our 'Dialect in British Fiction 1800-1836' project, which has been funded by the AHRC. As part of the conference we will be offering access to a beta version of the database we have created. Plenary speakers: Lisa Minnick (Western Michigan University) Katie Wales (University of Nottingham) Call For Papers Please submit abstracts of 250 words to j.hodsonsheffield.ac.uk by Friday 4th March 2011. We welcome papers that deal with dialect in languages other than English, but would ask that all papers be presented in English. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 19-Dec-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.