35.597, Calls: Immersion: a One-Day Symposium

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Subject: 35.597, Calls: Immersion: a One-Day Symposium

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Date: 19-Feb-2024
From: Peter Stockwell [peter.stockwell at nottingham.ac.uk]
Subject: Immersion: a One-Day Symposium


Full Title: Immersion: a one-day symposium

Date: 26-Apr-2024 - 26-Apr-2024
Location: University of Nottingham and online, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Peter Stockwell
Meeting Email: stylistics at nottingham.ac.uk
Web Site: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/events/events/2023-2024
/immersion.aspx

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis; Ling &
Literature
Subject Language(s): Abon (abo)
                     English (eng)

Call Deadline: 29-Feb-2024

Meeting Description:

In literary reading, the feeling of ‘immersion’ in the world of the
text has been recognised as a key experience for readers. The
phenomenon has been understood in literary linguistics and cognitive
poetics by a variety of terms: absorption (Hakemulder), transportation
(Gerrig), imaginative recentring (Ryan), aesthetic illusion (Wolf),
cognitive flow (Csikszentmihaly), and even as the suspension of
disbelief (Coleridge). Immersion is the feeling of engagement when a
reader loses sensory and cognitive contact with their surroundings, in
favour of the environment of the imagined world into which they are
casting their mind. It is a combined process involving text and
consciousness.

In this one-day symposium, we invite researchers to discuss the
experience of immersion in literary reading. We welcome any approach
or perspective within the broad field of literary linguistics.
Exemplary topics include but are not limited to:

the relationship between immersion and world-building
the relationship between immersion and cognitive reception
the relationship between immersion and characterisation
immersion, multimodality, transmediality
the readerly experience of immersion
immersion and authorship
innovative empirical or corpus approaches to immersion and cognition.

Call for Papers:

Presentations may be given in person or online as preferred. Please
send a short title and abstract (max 250 words) before 29 February to:
stylistics at nottingham.ac.uk.



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