27.4642, Calls: Hist Ling, Ling & Lit/UK

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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 13:47:23
From: Jacqueline Cordell [jacqueline.cordell at nottingham.ac.uk]
Subject: Approaching the Historical: A Symposium of Early Modern and Medieval Stylistics

 
Full Title: Approaching the Historical: A Symposium of Early Modern and Medieval Stylistics 
Short Title: SEMMS 

Date: 14-Jun-2017 - 14-Jun-2017
Location: Nottingham, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Jacqueline Cordell
Meeting Email: jacqueline.cordell at nottingham.ac.uk
Web Site: https://historicalstylistics.wordpress.com/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Ling & Literature 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 27-Feb-2017 

Meeting Description:

'Approaching the Historical' is a one-day symposium exploring the intersection
of stylistics and early English literature. It is organised by the University
of Nottingham’s Stylistics & Discourse Analysis reading group within the
Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics (CRAL), in collaboration with the
Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA).

Historical literature - here framed as material composed before the twentieth
century - represents a budding area of focus within current stylistics
research. Building on long traditions established in literary criticism and
historical pragmatics, this increasing engagement with historical style is
observable in recent publications, collaborative research projects, and
special events (such as the ‘In honour of Sylvia Adamson’ symposium at the
University of Sheffield this past September). These efforts have produced
dynamic and interdisciplinary research clusters oriented around prominent
historical literary periods including Victorian and even Shakespearean
literature. 

This symposium seeks to embrace this interest by providing a platform from
which to explore the application (and adaptation) of stylistic tools and
approaches to Old, Middle, and Early Modern English texts. Our focus on early
English literatures underscores our wish to facilitate the more widespread
analysis of medieval texts, as well as to further engage with the rapidly
growing corpus of scholarship evidenced in the language of Shakespeare and his
contemporaries. To this end, the symposium ultimately aims to promote the
consideration of earlier historical material than generally addressed in
conventional stylistic inquiry.

This event also offers an opportunity for critical evaluation of these
practices, promoting discussion of how to best integrate modern stylistic
approaches with the textual requirements of (and features unique to) early
literary genres. This has potential not only to significantly enhance our
understanding of the literature being analysed (and the cultures that produced
that literature), but also to help us refine our methods and ultimately
broaden the scope of their utility. The symposium encourages more widespread
consideration of these historical texts by exploring questions such as:

- How does the temporal distance between discourse world and present-day
audiences affect stylistic appreciation of these early texts?
- How might these interpretative challenges be addressed with present tools
and methods?
- What changes can be made to our current stylistic methods to complement the
unique character of these historical materials?
- How does the stylistic analysis of early texts enhance our understanding of
those texts, the cultures that produced them, and the diachronic development
of human cognition?


Call for Papers:

We invite abstracts for 15-minute presentations discussing any aspect of
literary linguistics as applied to texts composed in Old, Middle, or Early
Modern English. Submissions are welcome featuring methods and topics
including, but not limited to:

- Synchronic or diachronic approaches
- Quantitative or qualitative analysis
- Historical discourse analysis
- Intertextuality
- Narratology
- Cognitive poetics
- Corpus linguistics/stylistics 
- Non-digital topics and approaches (i.e. manuscripts)
- Stylistics and translation
- Characterization
- Speech and thought presentation
- Metaphor
- Metre
- Any other topic with stylistic impact and significance to the field

Abstracts of 250 words should be sent to Jacqueline Cordell
(jacqueline.cordell at nottingham.ac.uk) by 27 February 2017 and include name,
academic affiliation, and a list of 4 keywords. 

Important Dates:

27 February 2017 - Deadline for submissions
24 April 2017 - Registration opens
26 May 2017 - Registration closes
14 June 2017 - Symposium




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