28.477, Calls: Linguistics & Literature/USA

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Subject: 28.477, Calls: Linguistics & Literature/USA

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Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 18:21:57
From: Daniela Francesca Virdis [dfvirdis at unica.it]
Subject: The Stylistics of Landscape, Place and Environment

 
Full Title: The Stylistics of Landscape, Place and Environment 
Short Title: PALA LAND SIG 2017 

Date: 19-Jul-2017 - 22-Jul-2017
Location: West Chester, PA, USA 
Contact Person: Daniela Francesca Virdis
Meeting Email: dfvirdis at unica.it
Web Site: http://www.wcupa.edu/arts-humanities/linguistics/PALA/sig.aspx#land 

Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature 

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2017 

Meeting Description:

PALA LAND SIG workshop: The stylistics of landscape, place and environment

A workshop of the PALA LAND Special Interest Group
(http://www.pala.ac.uk/land-sig.html) on the stylistics of landscape, place
and environment will be led by Ernestine Lahey (University College Roosevelt),
Daniela Francesca Virdis (University of Cagliari) and Elisabetta Zurru
(University of Genoa).

The first PALA LAND SIG was held at the PALA 2014 conference in Maribor.
Following that successful event, participants are invited for a second
workshop.

Its primary aim will be to survey current stylistic approaches to concepts of
landscape, place and environment (and related concepts such as space, setting,
cityscape, etc.). Secondary aims include developing stylistic practice in
“place-based” stylistics (e.g. ecostylistics/ecopoetics, the stylistics of
tourism, etc.) and facilitating an exchange of ideas between scholars with
similar interests, with a view to future collaborative research efforts and
publications.


Call for Papers: 

PALA LAND SIG workshop: The stylistics of landscape, place and environment

Papers are invited on:

- Ecostylistics/ecopoetics
- Travel writing
- Discourses of tourism
- Figurative/metaphorical aspects of landscape and setting
- Strategies in landscape description
- Landscape, place and belonging (e.g. as in post-colonial literatures)
- The landscapes/spaces/places of science and speculative fiction
- Space, place, landscape in drama and performance
- Representations of specific places (some examples from past PALA conferences
include Sardinia, Interlaken, Birmingham, the Arctic)
- The style of specific writers in their representations of landscapes, spaces
and places
- The landscapes/spaces/places of specific genres
- Landscape/space/place description in specific works
- Animals and their natural/non-natural environments
- Human-animal interactions

This list is suggestive rather than exhaustive and other concerns and
approaches which fit into the broad aims of the SIG would be most welcome.

While papers from non-PALA members are welcome, in keeping with the aims of
the SIG, all papers should fit within the discipline of stylistics (i.e. there
must be some textual analysis and/or engagement with stylistic theory).

We invite proposals for 20-minute presentations (followed by 10 minutes for
discussion). Please send an abstract of between 150 to 250 words (excluding
references and keywords) to all of the following email addresses:
e.lahey at ucr.nl, dfvirdis at unica.it and elisabetta.zurru at unige.it.

Abstracts should contain at least the following structural elements: (a) a
title, (b) your full name, academic position, academic affiliation, email
address, postal address, (c) a list of keywords (max. 5), (d) a list of key
references (max. 5).

The extended deadline for the SIG workshop abstracts is the same as for the
PALA 2017 conference, i.e. 31 January 2017. Notifications of acceptance will
be sent by 15 February 2017.




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