27.682, Calls: Ling & Literature/UK

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LINGUIST List: Vol-27-682. Thu Feb 04 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.682, Calls: Ling & Literature/UK

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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2016 16:31:06
From: Lizzie Stewart [Lizzie.stewart at nottingham.ac.uk]
Subject: Experiencing Fictional Worlds: Where Does a Text Take the Reader?

Full Title: Experiencing Fictional Worlds: Where Does a Text Take the Reader? 

Date: 21-Jun-2016 - 21-Jun-2016
Location: Nottingham, UK, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Lizzie Stewart
Meeting Email: stylistics-rg at nottingham.ac.uk

Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature 

Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2016 

Meeting Description:

The University of Nottingham - Stylistics and Discourse Analysis Reading Group
are hosting a one-day symposium that will address the models and explorations
of what it means to experience texts as well as the fundamental question of
what is being experienced. We wish to address questions such as: What does it
mean to experience a text? How does a reader access texts? How can texts make
a reader feel? What is a text? What are fictional worlds and how do they work?
What really happens when we read? 

Postgraduate and early-career researchers with interests in this discipline
are especially encouraged to participate.

Call for Papers:

Experience is a fundamentally human and personal phenomenon, something that
lies at the heart of reading texts. Stylistics and narratology have laid the
foundations for explaining what experiencing a text means, what the ‘feel’ of
a certain story might be. In so doing, experientiality itself has become a
subject of study. 

Our 2014 symposium explored the nature of the literary reader. This year, we
will develop this theme further by examining experientiality and text worlds.
Researching what it means when readers experience fictional worlds will allow
us to explore both the essence of experience and of the worlds created by
texts more fully. 

This symposium will address the models and explorations of what it means to
experience texts as well as the fundamental question of what is being
experienced. We wish to address questions such as: What does it mean to
experience a text? How does a reader access texts? How can texts make a reader
feel? What is a text? What are fictional worlds and how do they work? What
really happens when we read? 

Papers are invited for this one-day symposium. We are particularly looking for
contributions that (1) explicitly attempt to link assumptions and practices,
and (2) illustrate such links through specific textual analysis. 
Relevant topics include (but are not limited to): 

- Reader response studies
- Storyworlds and world-building in fiction
- Characterisation and reader engagement
- Experiencing texts, embodiment and cognition
- Narrative transportation and immersion
- Other related topics at the intersection of reader, texts, and worlds.

Please submit an abstract of around 300 words, five keywords and a short
100-word biography by Friday 1 April, 2016. Please remember to include your
name, affiliation, academic title and email address. Postgraduate and
early-career researchers with interests in this discipline are especially
encouraged to participate. 

Abstract submissions should be included as a Word attachment and sent to
stylistics-rg at nottingham.ac.uk  

Those who would like to attend the symposium without presenting a paper are
welcome to do so and should confirm their attendance by email by Monday 2 May
2016. All participants will be notified by this date and online registration
will be available shortly after.

The Stylistics & Discourse Analysis Reading Group
Email: stylistics-rg at nottingham.ac.uk    
Website:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/cral/research-groups/sda/sdareadin
ggroup.aspx

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