31.406, Calls: English; Ling & Literature/France

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Subject: 31.406, Calls: English; Ling & Literature/France

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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 10:05:25
From: R. L. Victoria Pöhls [victoria.poehls at ae.mpg.de]
Subject: 2nd International Conference on Powerful Literary Fiction Texts : A Stylistic, Empirical and Performance-based Approach

 
Full Title: 2nd International Conference on Powerful Literary Fiction Texts. A Stylistic, Empirical and Performance-based Approach 
Short Title: P-LIt 

Date: 28-Oct-2020 - 30-Oct-2020
Location: Paris, France 
Contact Person: R. L. Victoria Pöhls
Meeting Email: plit.conference at gmail.com
Web Site: https://p-lit.org 

Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2020 

Meeting Description:

2nd International Conference on Powerful Literary Fiction Texts. A Stylistic,
Empirical and Performance-based Approach : Bringing together literary studies,
stylistics and linguistics, empirical aesthetics and oral performance.

Works of prose fiction include pieces of writing that are prone to provide
both emotional and cognitive pleasure because they are made of “language at
its most distilled and most powerful” (Rita Dove). Yet these passages too
often escape an analysis that combines close reading with, on the one hand,
the reading aloud of the text – so that it can be experienced to the full by
the audience – and, on the other hand, a study of the text’s potential effects
on readers – hereby advancing a hypothesis of readers’ impressions and of the
linguistic features responsible for them. This international conference series
invites contributors to select and explore prose extracts through such a mixed
approach. 

Each excerpt – be it a set of phrases or sentences, a paragraph or a longer
extract – will thus be orally performed and examined as a textual composition
likely to elicit specific responses on the readers’ part. Questions dealt with
in the presentations can include: 
-How does the text capture the readers’ attention or interest? 
-How does it provide aesthetic appeal and trigger powerful positive, negative
or mixed emotions? 
-Which other effects apart from eliciting strong emotions can render prose
fiction powerful? Which role do emotions play in these other kinds of effects
(e. g. persuasion, behaviour and personality change)?
-Is the impact closely bound to the time of reading or are some effects
created to stick with the reader for longer? And then: How can this be linked
to specific stylistic features? 

The compelling effects such pieces of text provide are usually due to:
-The relationship between the part and the whole: the way the selected excerpt
articulates with the rest of the narrative it is taken from, its specific
function and purport within the respective work of fiction.
-The chosen piece of text itself: although the powerful effect produced in a
reader is partly due to his or her subjectivity, we assume it also results
from the way the author’s language organises and conveys the cognitive
realities of real or fictitious experience. 

Note: This conference has been conceived as a convivial event, aiming to
foster interaction between attendees: there will be only one talk at a time
and lunches will be provided.


Call for Papers: 

The presentation format involves 4 successive stages:
-A brief introductory presentation of the story from which the chosen extract
is taken, and of the excerpt’s function or purport within the rest of the
narrative. 
-The reading aloud of the extract: thanks to this oral performance, the text
will be experienced by the audience as ‘living’ material embodied through
human voice. 
-A close reading aiming to discover the text’s mechanisms. If all linguistic
choices are potentially meaningful (Leech & Short 2007: 27), which are the
‘powerful’ ones, responsible for the audience’s reactions? Tools pertaining to
the field of literary linguistics may be helpful to identify the effectual
stylistic features: lexical choices and coinages; syntactic choices, including
tense and aspect; figures of speech and other stylistic devices, such as
ellipses, rhythm, sounds, et cetera.
-The explicit highlighting of the hypothesised connection between the
identified linguistic features and the effects they have on readers.

Contributors are especially welcome to present empirical research on reader
perception of specific textual phenomena or stylistic features, but testable
hypotheses are also suitable.

Any kind of fictional literary prose or drama text may be considered,
irrespective of subgenre, literary tradition, or intended audience. However,
poetry, historical non-fiction texts, and translation analyses are
unfortunately not suitable. 

Presentation time for each paper will be 20-25 minutes, followed by a 5-10
minutes discussion.

Please submit a short bio (not longer than 50 words) including your name and
institutional affiliation, and a completely anonymised file consisting of the
abstract (up to 300 words, excluding references; unpublished work) and the
literary excerpt(s) under study (up to 350 words).

If the selected excerpts are not in English, we kindly ask contributors to
base their presentation on an English translation (preferably a professional
one) that allows following the argument of the paper.

Please send the two files to the following e-mail address:
plit.conference at gmail.com

The deadline for submission is February 15, 2020.




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