21.5150, Calls: Ling & Literature/United Kingdom

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Subject: 21.5150, Calls: Ling & Literature/United Kingdom

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Date: 17-Dec-2010
From: Jane Hodson [j.hodson at sheffield.ac.uk]
Subject: International Conference on Dialect and Literature
 

	
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Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 12:30:59
From: Jane Hodson [j.hodson at sheffield.ac.uk]
Subject: International Conference on Dialect and Literature

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Full Title: International Conference on Dialect and Literature 

Date: 11-Jul-2011 - 13-Jul-2011
Location: Sheffield, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Jane Hodson
Meeting Email: j.hodson at sheffield.ac.uk

Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature 

Call Deadline: 04-Mar-2011 

Meeting Description:

When an author writes a literary text either wholly or partly in dialect, he or 
she is making a conscious choice to represent something other than the 
standard language.  This conference invites papers that explore this 
process.  We welcome papers from across different periods, different 
genres and different geographical locations, including regional, social and 
world dialects.  Questions that might be addressed include, but are not 
restricted to:

-what purposes does the representation of dialect have in literary texts? 
-how do readers respond to the representation of dialect in literature?
-which critical frameworks are appropriate for the interpretation of dialect in 
literary texts?
-what methodologies can we borrow from linguistics in order to analyse 
dialect representation?
-how does literary dialect differ from 'real' dialect? 
-can a distinction be drawn between dialect in literature and dialect 
literature?
-what are the ideological dimensions of the representation of literary 
dialect?
-how has the representation of dialect varied across time, place and genre?
-how can we study audience response to the literary representation of 
dialect?

This conference is being held to mark the concluding stage of our 'Dialect in 
British Fiction 1800-1836' project, which has been funded by the AHRC.  As 
part of the conference we will be offering access to a beta version of the 
database we have created.

Plenary speakers: 	
Lisa Minnick (Western Michigan University)
Katie Wales (University of Nottingham) 

Call For Papers

Please submit abstracts of 250 words to j.hodson at sheffield.ac.uk by Friday 
4th March 2011.
 
We welcome papers that deal with dialect in languages other than English, 
but would ask that all papers be presented in English.





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