27.4706, Calls: Disc Analysis, Ling & Lit, Ling Theories, Text/Corpus Ling/UK

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Subject: 27.4706, Calls: Disc Analysis, Ling & Lit, Ling Theories, Text/Corpus Ling/UK

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Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 15:27:46
From: Jeremy Scott [J.D.Scott at kent.ac.uk]
Subject: International Association of Literary Semantics 7 'Innovation and Creation'

Full Title: International Association of Literary Semantics 7 'Innovation and Creation' 
Short Title: IALS 2017 

Date: 10-Apr-2017 - 13-Apr-2017
Location: Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Hazel Price
Meeting Email: ials2017 at hud.ac.uk
Web Site: https://ials2017.wordpress.com 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Ling & Literature; Linguistic Theories; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 09-Dec-2016 

Meeting Description:

Established in 1990, the International Association of Literary Semantics
exists to support the exchange of ideas among academics and scholars who are
interested in advancing the understanding of the bases of literary meaning. To
that end the association holds an international conference periodically
(approximately once every four years).

Members of the association come from a variety of disciplines—but perhaps
chiefly linguistics, literary studies, philosophy, and psychology—and use a
range of theoretical perspectives and empirical methods.

The Association enjoys friendly relations, and some sharing of personnel, with
several other international associations devoted to the broadly linguistic
analysis of literature, perhaps most notably the Poetics and Linguistics
Association (PALA).

IALS is loosely associated with the Journal of Literary Semantics, and was
launched by the founding editor (1972-2002) of that journal, Dr Trevor Eaton. 
For nearly forty years, the JLS has published some of the most influential
work, from a host of international scholars, in literary linguistics, literary
pragmatics, narratology, philosophy of literature, empirical literary studies,
and cognitive poetics.  The Association is equally inclusive and
cross-disciplinary in its outlook.

Call for Papers:

IALS 7: Creation and Innovation

When Trevor Eaton founded the Journal of Literary Semantics in 1972, it was in
the belief that literary texts should be a prime concern of linguists. This
view is very much in line with that of the corpus linguist John Sinclair, who
famously said:

“Literature is a prime example of language in use; no systematic apparatus can
claim to describe language if it does not embrace the literature also; and not
as a freakish development, but as a natural specialization of categories which
are required in other parts of the descriptive system. Further, the literature
must be describable in terms which accord with the priorities of literary
critics.”

(Sinclair 2004: 51)

We wholeheartedly endorse Eaton’s and Sinclair’s views concerning the
importance of literature to the development of linguistics, as well as the
importance of linguistics to the understanding of literature. We are therefore
pleased to invite abstracts for papers that explore the systematic linguistic
analysis of literature, either for the purpose of elucidating the meaning of a
literary text or texts, or for the development of linguistic theory. In
particular, we invite proposals for papers that address issues of creation
and/or innovation in the production and linguistic analysis of literary texts
of all types. Issues for consideration include but are not limited to:
insights into the creative process, creative approaches to stylistic analysis,
analytical innovations, methodological innovations and innovative uses of
technology in the linguistic analysis of literature. We define literature in
broad terms and our definition encompasses canonical and non-canonical works,
monomodal and multimodal texts, and both fiction and non-fiction.

We invite abstracts for 20-minute presentations to be followed by 10 minutes
of discussion. Abstracts should contain the following elements:

- A clear indication of your aims and research questions
- An explanation of your methodology and analytical framework
- An indication of your emerging results and conclusions
- A maximum of five keywords
- A maximum of five references
- Abstracts should be 300 to 350 words in length and should be sent as email
attachments in .doc, .docx, .rtf or .pdf format and titled ‘Surname Abstract
IALS 2017’. Please ensure that you also include your name and academic
affiliation, email address and postal address.

Abstracts will be peer-reviewed (members of the Abstract Peer Review Committee
are listed on the conference website) and the deadline for submissions is
Friday 11 November 2016. Notification of acceptance will be sent by Friday 16
December 2016.

All conference rooms have a computer, data projector and screen. Please send
abstracts to the conference email address: IALS2017 at hud.ac.uk.

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