LINGUIST List 22.351 Thu Jan 20 2011 Confs: Ling & Literature, Semantics/Namibia 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.     Sarala Krishnamurthy , Language and Literature Interface: Contemporary Perspectives Message 1: Language and Literature Interface: Contemporary Perspectives Date: 18-Jan-2011 From: Sarala Krishnamurthy <skrishnamurthypolytechnic.edu.na> Subject: Language and Literature Interface: Contemporary Perspectives E-mail this message to a friend Language and Literature Interface: Contemporary Perspectives Short Title: PALA Conference Date: 05-Jul-2011 - 09-Jul-2011 Location: Windhoek, Namibia Contact: Sarala Krishnamurthy Contact Email: skrishnamurthypolytechnic.edu.na Meeting URL: http://www.polytechnic.edu.na Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature; Semantics Meeting Description: Linguists, stylisticians and literary critics, among other scholars, have in the past striven to demonstrate the interface between language and literature with insightful results. Some scholars have even gone a step further and attempted to show the overlap within language, literature and communication with the argument that there are methods of analysis that can be applied to all the three broad areas. This interdisciplinary approach has produced exciting results which have demonstrated that methods of analysis used in one discipline can be successfully used in the other disciplines as well. It is with this interdisciplinary backdrop that the 2011 PALA Conference focuses on the interface between language and literature. The major aim is to explore and discuss contemporary perspectives relating to the interface between language and literature. Papers should address contemporary views - theoretical and/or practical - on the application of linguistic criticism to various forms of texts - spoken or written - in order to unravel the styles and meanings in these texts. Sub-topics: Stylistics Pragmatics Discourse Analysis Teaching Literature and Language Effective teaching through digitalization Narratives and Narratology Schema Theory Text, World, and Discourse Corpus Stylistics Applied Linguistics Plenary Speakers Jonathan Culler is Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature. Educated at Harvard University (BA in History and Literature, 1966) and Oxford University (B. Phil. In Comparative Literature, 1968; D. Phil. In Modern Languages, 1972), he has worked on 19 th century French literature (especially on Flaubert and Baudelaire) and on contemporary literary theory and criticism (especially structuralism, deconstruction and French theory generally). He teaches primarily courses on literary theory and on aspects of the history of the lyric. His best known works are Flaubert: The Uses of Uncertainty, Structuralist Poetics, Roland Barthes, Ferdinand de Saussure, On Deconstruction, and Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. He is completing a term as President of the American Comparative Literature Association. Paul Simpson is a Professor of English Language in the School of English at Queen's University Belfast where he is also Director of Research in English Language and Linguistics. He teaches and researches in many areas of English language and linguistics and his publications have included, inter alia, studies of the sociolinguistic features of pop singing styles, the pragmatics of advertising discourse and the linguistic patterns of verbal humour. He is best known for his books and articles in stylistics and critical linguistics and his publications in this area include Language, Ideology and Point of View, Language through Literature and Stylistics, all published by Routledge. He is the co-editor of Language, Discourse and Literature (Unwin Hyman) and has edited the PALA journal Language and Literature (2003-2009). His monograph on the discourse of satire was published by Benjamins in 2003, while his co-authored textbook Language and Power appeared in 2009. He is currently developing a monograph on the pragmatics of verbal humour. Patrick Colm Hogan is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Connecticut, where he is also on the faculties of the Program in Comparative Literature, the Program in India Studies, and the Cognitive Science Program. He is the author of thirteen books, including The Mind and Its Stories: Narrative Universals and Human Emotion (Cambridge University Press, 2003)--hailed by Steven Pinker as 'a landmark in modern intellectual life' - and What Literature Teaches Us About Emotion (Cambridge University Press, 2011). In connection with his research on cross-cultural patterns in narrative and emotion, Hogan has written on a wide range of literatures and oratures, including such African works as The Mwindo Epic and different versions of The Epic of Son-Jara. Hogan has also edited a number of books, including The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Hogan is currently working on issues in narrative discourse analysis, such as the politics of narrator point of view in such novels as Ngugi's Petals of Blood and (Namibian author) Joseph Diescho's Born of the Sun. Dan Shen (Ph.D. Edinburgh in stylistics) is Changjiang Professor of English and the Director of the Center for European and American Literatures at Beijing (Peking) University. She is on the editorial boards of Language and Literature (since 1999) and JLS: Journal of Literary Semantics, as well as a consultant editor of The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. In addition to having published numerous books and essays in China, she has published over thirty essays in North America and Europe, many of them in journals like Style (four essays, another forthcoming), Narrative (four essays), JLS: Journal of Literary Semantics (two essays), Language and Literature (two essays), Poetics Today (two essays), English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature (two essays), Nineteenth- Century Literature, Poetics, ARIEL: An International Review of English Literature, and JNT: The Journal of Narrative Theory (also JNT: The Journal of Narrative Technique). Sinfree Makoni From 1999-2001 Dr. Makoni was the Dubois-Mandela- Rodney Fellow at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. He is a native of Southern Africa, did his graduate work in Ghana and received his Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He has extensive professional experience in Southern Africa, including Chair of Linguistics at the University of the Western cape and associate professor of language and literature at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is former president of the Southern African Applied Linguistics Association and an Executive Board member of the International Applied Linguistics Association. He has research in the socio-historical construction of African urban languages, agrammatism and language in health in multilingual communities in the US and Africa. Dr. Makoni's recent CO-edited books include: Black scholars on Black languages: problems and possibilities, (London:Routledge in press). Ageing in Africa: Sociolinguistic and Anthropological Approaches( London:Ashgate 2002), Freedom and Discipline: Essays in Applied Linguistics from Southern Africa, Bahri, India (2001), Language and Institutions in Africa, (Cape Town: Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society in Africa (2000)), Improving Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in southern Africa. (Johannesburg, Witwatersrand University Press,2000). His recent publications include Disinvention and Reconstituting Language edited with Alastair Pennycook: London: Routledge (2006). A monograph on colonial and postcolonial language policies in Zimbabwe, in Current Issues in Language Planning authored with Busi Dube and Pedzisai Mashiri. He has also co-authored a book on Language and Ageing in Multilingual contexts with Kees de Bot published by Multilingual Matters: 2007. His recent articles appear in a number of journals including Names: A journal of Onomastics, Journal of Language, Identity and Education, Current Issues in Language Planning, Language in Society. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 20-Jan-2011       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.