LINGUIST List 17.848

Mon Mar 20 2006

Calls: General Ling/South Korea;Applied Ling/Finland

Editor for this issue: Kevin Burrows <kevinlinguistlist.org>

Directory         1.    Sun-Woong Kim, 8th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar
         2.    Greg Watson, 'The State of Stylistics' . The 26th International Conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA).
Message 1: 8th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar
Date: 17-Mar-2006
From: Sun-Woong Kim <swkimkw.ac.kr>
Subject: 8th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar


Full Title: 8th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar Short Title: SICOGG 8

Date: 09-Aug-2006 - 12-Aug-2006 Location: Seoul, Korea, South Contact Person: Park Myung-Kwan Meeting Email: parkmkdgu.edu
Message 2: 'The State of Stylistics' . The 26th International Conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA).
Date: 15-Mar-2006
From: Greg Watson <greg.watsonjoensuu.fi>
Subject: 'The State of Stylistics' . The 26th International Conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA).



Full Title: 'The State of Stylistics' . The 26th International Conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA).

Date: 26-Jul-2006 - 29-Jul-2006 Location: Joensuu, Finland Contact Person: Greg Watson Meeting Email: pala26joensuu.fi Web Site: http://www.joensuu.fi/fld/pala2006/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Ling & Literature; Philosophy of Language; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2006

Meeting Description:

The 26th International Conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) is to be held in Joensuu, Finland. Situated amongst the beautiful lakes district of Eastern Finland, Joensuu (which means mouth of the river) is the regional capital of the province of North Karelia, which shares its border with Russia. We offer exceptional facilities amongst pristine natural surroundings.

There has been much debate in recent years within the broad domain of stylistics about how to define this field of investigation. This same debate most recently arose at our last gathering in Huddersfield (July 2005). How has stylistics evolved since the early 1970s? How do we define ''stylistics'' today? What are its aims? How do we go about meeting these aims? Can we realistically reach a consensus? How viable is stylistics in the 21st century? What could be its main contributions? To what extent is stylistics an interdisciplinary venture? The purpose of this conference is to reflect upon these broad questions: to consider what state the state of stylistics is in.

We invite you to submit papers that reflect upon the wide range of methodologies and outlooks that have evolved within this field during the latter half of the 20th century whilst considering how they reflect upon the core purpose of stylistic investigation and indeed just what this core might be. It would also be interesting to discuss what impact stylistics might have in future years to come.