LINGUIST List 23.703 Fri Feb 10 2012 Confs: Linguistics and Literature/UK Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.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.     Michaela Mahlberg , Mixed Methods Approaches to Dickens & Characterization Message 1: Mixed Methods Approaches to Dickens & Characterization Date: 09-Feb-2012 From: Michaela Mahlberg <michaela.mahlbergnottingham.ac.uk> Subject: Mixed Methods Approaches to Dickens & Characterization E-mail this message to a friend Mixed Methods Approaches to Dickens & Characterization Date: 10-May-2012 - 10-May-2012 Location: Nottingham, United Kingdom Contact: Michaela Mahlberg Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cral/events/dickens-symposium.aspx Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature Meeting Description: This symposium will illustrate innovative approaches to both Dickens Studies and studies of characterization more generally. Scholars from both language and literature will present cutting-edge research that suggests a mixed methods approach to the study of characterization in literary texts and specifically the novels by Charles Dickens. The talks will address the concept of character in the framework of cognitive poetics, Dickens's characters in the context of popular culture, corpus methods and the tool CLiC for literary texts, psycholinguistic methods to investigate the reading process and the psychological reality of characters, Dickens and book history, and the reading experience in the 19th century. Confirmed speakers Professor Juliet John, Professor in Victorian Literature, Royal Holloway University of London Professor Peter Stockwell, Professor of Literary Linguistics, University of Nottingham Professor Josephine Guy, Professor of Modern English Literature, University of Nottingham Dr. Kathy Conklin, Lecturer in Psycholinguistics, University of Nottingham Dr. Michaela Mahlberg, Associate Professor in English Language and Applied Linguistics, University of Nottingham Dr. Catherine Smith, Technical Officer, Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing, University of Birmingham Dr. Simon Preston, RCUK Research Fellow, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham Introduction to the Symposium by Professor Brean Hammond, Professor of Modern English Literature, University of Nottingham Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 10-Feb-2012       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.