22.351, Confs: Ling & Literature, Semantics/Namibia

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Date: 18-Jan-2011
From: Sarala Krishnamurthy [skrishnamurthy at polytechnic.edu.na]
Subject: Language and Literature Interface: Contemporary Perspectives

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From: Sarala Krishnamurthy [skrishnamurthy at polytechnic.edu.na]
Subject: Language and Literature Interface: Contemporary Perspectives

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Language and Literature Interface: Contemporary Perspectives 
Short Title: PALA Conference 

Date: 05-Jul-2011 - 09-Jul-2011 
Location: Windhoek, Namibia 
Contact: Sarala Krishnamurthy 
Contact Email: skrishnamurthy at polytechnic.edu.na 
Meeting URL: http://www.polytechnic.edu.na 

Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature; Semantics 

Meeting Description: 

Linguists, stylisticians and literary critics, among other scholars, have in the 
past striven to demonstrate the interface between language and literature 
with insightful results. Some scholars have even gone a step further and 
attempted to show the overlap within language, literature and 
communication with the argument that there are methods of analysis that 
can be applied to all the three broad areas. This interdisciplinary approach 
has produced exciting results which have demonstrated that methods of 
analysis used in one discipline can be successfully used in the other 
disciplines as well. 

It is with this interdisciplinary backdrop that the 2011 PALA Conference 
focuses on the interface between language and literature. The major aim is 
to explore and discuss contemporary perspectives relating to the interface 
between language and literature. Papers should address contemporary 
views - theoretical and/or practical - on the application of linguistic criticism 
to various forms of texts - spoken or written - in order to unravel the styles 
and meanings in these texts. 

Sub-topics:

Stylistics 
Pragmatics 
Discourse Analysis 
Teaching Literature and Language
Effective teaching through digitalization 
Narratives and Narratology 
Schema Theory 
Text, World, and Discourse 
Corpus Stylistics 
Applied Linguistics 

Plenary Speakers

Jonathan Culler is Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative 
Literature. Educated at Harvard University (BA in History and Literature, 
1966) and Oxford University (B. Phil. In Comparative Literature, 1968; D. 
Phil. In Modern Languages, 1972), he has worked on 19 th century French 
literature (especially on Flaubert and Baudelaire) and on contemporary 
literary theory and criticism (especially structuralism, deconstruction and 
French theory generally). He teaches primarily courses on literary theory 
and on aspects of the history of the lyric. His best known works are 
Flaubert: The Uses of Uncertainty, Structuralist Poetics, Roland Barthes, 
Ferdinand de Saussure, On Deconstruction, and Literary Theory: A Very 
Short Introduction. He is completing a term as President of the American 
Comparative Literature Association.

Paul Simpson is a Professor of English Language in the School of English at 
Queen's University Belfast where he is also Director of Research in English 
Language and Linguistics. He teaches and researches in many areas of 
English language and linguistics and his publications have included, inter 
alia, studies of the sociolinguistic features of pop singing styles, the 
pragmatics of advertising discourse and the linguistic patterns of verbal 
humour. He is best known for his books and articles in stylistics and critical 
linguistics and his publications in this area include Language, Ideology and 
Point of View, Language through Literature and Stylistics, all published by 
Routledge. He is the co-editor of Language, Discourse and Literature 
(Unwin Hyman) and has edited the PALA journal Language and Literature 
(2003-2009). His monograph on the discourse of satire was published by 
Benjamins in 2003, while his co-authored textbook Language and Power 
appeared in 2009. He is currently developing a monograph on the 
pragmatics of verbal humour.

Patrick Colm Hogan is a Professor in the Department of English at the 
University of Connecticut, where he is also on the faculties of the Program 
in Comparative Literature, the Program in India Studies, and the Cognitive 
Science Program. He is the author of thirteen books, including The Mind 
and Its Stories: Narrative Universals and Human Emotion (Cambridge 
University Press, 2003)--hailed by Steven Pinker as 'a landmark in modern 
intellectual life' - and What Literature Teaches Us About Emotion 
(Cambridge University Press, 2011). In connection with his research on 
cross-cultural patterns in narrative and emotion, Hogan has written on a 
wide range of literatures and oratures, including such African works as The 
Mwindo Epic and different versions of The Epic of Son-Jara. Hogan has 
also edited a number of books, including The Cambridge Encyclopedia of 
the Language Sciences (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Hogan is 
currently working on issues in narrative discourse analysis, such as the 
politics of narrator point of view in such novels as Ngugi's Petals of Blood 
and  (Namibian author) Joseph Diescho's Born of the Sun.

Dan Shen (Ph.D. Edinburgh in stylistics) is Changjiang Professor of English 
and the Director of the Center for European and American Literatures at 
Beijing (Peking) University. She is on the editorial boards of Language and 
Literature (since 1999) and JLS: Journal of Literary Semantics, as well as a 
consultant editor of The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. In 
addition to having published numerous books and essays in China, she has 
published over thirty essays in North America and Europe, many of them in 
journals like Style (four essays, another forthcoming), Narrative (four 
essays), JLS: Journal of Literary Semantics (two essays), Language and 
Literature (two essays), Poetics Today (two essays), English Studies: A 
Journal of English Language and Literature (two essays), Nineteenth-
Century Literature, Poetics, ARIEL: An International Review of English 
Literature, and JNT: The Journal of Narrative Theory (also JNT: The 
Journal of Narrative Technique).

Sinfree Makoni From 1999-2001 Dr. Makoni was the Dubois-Mandela-
Rodney 
Fellow at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. He is a native of Southern 
Africa, did his graduate work in Ghana and received his Ph.D. in Applied 
Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He has extensive 
professional experience in Southern Africa, including Chair of Linguistics at 
the University of the Western cape and associate professor of language 
and literature at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is former 
president of the Southern African Applied Linguistics Association and an 
Executive Board member of the International Applied Linguistics 
Association. He has research in the socio-historical construction of African 
urban languages, agrammatism and language in health in multilingual 
communities in the US and Africa. Dr. Makoni's recent CO-edited books 
include: Black scholars on Black languages: problems and possibilities, 
(London:Routledge in press). Ageing in Africa: Sociolinguistic and 
Anthropological Approaches( London:Ashgate 2002), Freedom and 
Discipline: Essays in Applied Linguistics from Southern Africa, Bahri, India 
(2001), Language and Institutions in Africa, (Cape Town: Centre for 
Advanced Studies of African Society in Africa (2000)), Improving Teaching 
and Learning in Higher Education in southern Africa. (Johannesburg, 
Witwatersrand University Press,2000). His recent publications include 
Disinvention and Reconstituting Language edited with Alastair Pennycook: 
London: Routledge (2006). A monograph on colonial and postcolonial 
language policies in Zimbabwe, in Current Issues in Language Planning 
authored with Busi Dube and Pedzisai Mashiri. He has also co-authored a 
book on Language and Ageing in Multilingual contexts with Kees de Bot 
published by Multilingual Matters: 2007. His recent articles appear in a 
number of journals including Names: A journal of Onomastics, Journal of 
Language, Identity and Education, Current Issues in Language Planning, 
Language in Society.

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