28.2383, Confs: Ling & Lit/United Kingdom

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-2383. Tue May 30 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.2383, Confs: Ling & Lit/United Kingdom

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Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 11:53:03
From: Billy Clark [b.clark at mdx.ac.uk]
Subject: Close Reading, Codes and Interpretation

 
Close Reading, Codes and Interpretation 

Date: 13-Jun-2017 - 13-Jun-2017 
Location: London, United Kingdom 
Contact: Paul Cobley 
Contact Email: p.cobley at mdx.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://www.onlinestore.mdx.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-arts-and-creative-industries/event/close-reading-codes-and-interpretation 

Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature 

Meeting Description: 

In some reckonings, ‘close reading’ is now around 90 years old, having been
inaugurated in I. A. Richards’ Principles of Literary Criticism (1926) and
Practical Criticism (1929). The close reading of texts has become arguably the
central activity of the humanities and close reading is carried out across
different levels of education and through a number of disciplines. As its
practitioners recognize, procedures of close reading can become ossified into
routine practices of code identification rather than active interpretation.

This day symposium seeks to ask what ‘close reading’ is like now, how it is
exercised in education in different contexts and how it might differ from or
resemble ‘codes’ of reading. It features papers by teachers in Higher
Education and at school, including:

 
Barbara Bleiman (English and Media Centre)
‘Close reading in Secondary English –  practices, problems and solutions’
 

Billy Clark (Middlesex University)
'Pragmatic inference and reading processes'

Paul Cobley (Middlesex University)
‘The magic of codes: semiotics and close reading’

Louisa Enstone (Darrickwood School)
‘Is it time to stop pee-ing? A grassroots study into teaching reading and
essay writing at Secondary’

Marcello Giovanelli (Aston University) and Jess Mason (Sheffield Hallam
University)
‘Whose close reading?: emphasis, attention and cognition in the literature
classroom’

Andrea Macrae (Oxford Brookes University)
'Close reading as process and product'

Jon Orman (University of Hong Kong)
‘Thick description and/as close reading: some language-philosophical
reflections’

Adrian Pablé (University of Hong Kong)
‘Interpretation, radical indeterminacy and close reading’

Stefan Peto (Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys)
‘Close reading at the chalk-face: strategies and observations in Key Stage 3’

Johan Siebers (Middlesex University)
‘Only the furthest distance would be closeness - semantic anarchism, close
reading and academic practice’
 
For queries and further details, please email Paul Cobley p.cobley at mdx.ac.uk

Dr. Paul Cobley
Professor in Language and Media
Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries
Middlesex University
The Burroughs
London
NW4 4BT
United Kingdom
 






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