31.3119, Calls: Discip of Ling, Disc Analys, Ling & Lit, Ling Theories, Semantics/Lithuania

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Subject: 31.3119, Calls: Discip of Ling, Disc Analys, Ling & Lit, Ling Theories, Semantics/Lithuania

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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 21:57:16
From: Louise Nuttall [l.nuttall at hud.ac.uk]
Subject: 9th Conference of the International Association of Literary Semantics

 
Full Title: 9th Conference of the International Association of Literary Semantics 
Short Title: IALS 2021 

Date: 08-Apr-2021 - 10-Apr-2021
Location: Vilnus University, Lithuania 
Contact Person: Davide Castiglione
Meeting Email: ialsconference2021 at gmail.com
Web Site: https://ialsconference2021.wordpress.com/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Ling & Literature; Linguistic Theories; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 31-Dec-2020 

Meeting Description:

Established in 1990, the International Association of Literary Semantics
exists to support the exchange of ideas among academics and scholars who are
interested in advancing understanding of the bases of literary meaning.

The association holds an international conference every two to four years.

Members of the association come from a large variety of disciplines – but
perhaps chiefly linguistics, literary studies, philosophy, and psychology –
and use a range of theoretical perspectives and empirical methods. The
association enjoys friendly relations with several other international
associations devoted to the broadly linguistic analysis of literature, perhaps
most notably the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA).

IALS is associated with the Journal of Literary Semantics, and was launched by
the founding editor (1972-2002) of that journal, Dr Trevor Eaton.  For nearly
fifty years, the JLS has published some of the most influential work, from a
host of international scholars, in literary linguistics, literary pragmatics,
narratology, philosophy of literature, empirical literary studies, and
cognitive poetics.  The association is equally inclusive and
cross-disciplinary in its outlook.


Call for Papers: 

>From Text World Theory to Relevance Theory, from the theory of foregrounding
to empirical and corpus methods, from a critical-ideological to a
literary-aesthetic focus (and many more), the proliferation of theories,
models, frameworks and approaches in the fields of linguistics and literary
theory seem to support the following proposition: scholars should not
necessarily conform to abstract standards of rationality or reach a
creativity-stifling consensus, but rather feel free to experiment with
whatever idea or analytical tool fits their purposes at a given time.

Within stylistics, theoretical eclecticism has been advocated by Lesley
Jeffries, who notes that ‘theories are not always completely discredited, even
when the next generation of models and theories seems to have replaced them’
(2000: 5). More recently, Michael Toolan (2015) has uncovered (and
occasionally problematised) a number of principles and assumptions invoked in
stylistic practice, including the centrality of language, the prestige and
complexity of literature, the conceptual boundaries of even basic grammatical
categories and units of analysis. In particular, he argues that such
principles are interpretive to a degree, and that a rigid application of
scientific standards such as causation and falsification is ill-suited in the
domain of textual analysis.

New, rigorous yet thought-provoking contributions in the tradition of the
aforementioned papers seem called for nowadays, both because collective
theoretical and methodological awareness is a sign of maturity in any
scientific discipline, and because a number of models, hybrid applications and
technological refinements have emerged in recent years which warrant closer
scrutiny and are worthy of a wider audience. The 2021 IALS conference in
Vilnius seems the ideal arena to do just that. After all, an open, critical
discussion of these issues is the best precaution to prevent unconstrained
freedom or wild eclecticism from turning into amateurish relativism and,
conversely, to prevent one’s staunch support of a single framework or approach
from turning into academic dogma.

We especially welcome the submission of abstracts that do not content
themselves with exposing and applying a single theory or model, but rather
 - weigh the cons and pros of alternative approaches and frameworks, their
overlaps and potential integration or else their incompatibility
 - showcase integrated models of analysis, reflecting on the ‘division of
labour’ of the models involved
 - replicate, integrate or confute past analyses using new methods
 - discuss the assumptions and premises of various frameworks and how they
impact subsequent analyses
 - reflect on methodological challenges based on one’s experience in
conducting research, and discuss  ways to overcome/minimise them
 - summarise and evaluate a range of epistemological positions with regard to
specific issues (e.g. the code-like vs. inferential conceptualisation of
language addressed by Jeffries 2000) and explore their analytical/interpretive
implications
 - assess the plausibility and strength of alternative hypotheses or
explanations
 - trace the diachronic development of analytic categories (e.g. speech and
thought presentation categories) or empirical practices (e.g. focus groups)
 - provide meta-analyses and systematic reviews of published papers
 - touch on any similar or loosely related theoretical or methodological issue

Abstracts should be sent in a .doc/.docx-file to ialsconference2021 at gmail.com
by 31 December at 23.59 (UK time). They should be 250-300 words in length and
contain:
– A clear indication of your aims and research questions
– An explanation of your methodology/ies and analytical framework(s)
– A maximum of five keywords
– A maximum of five references

30 mins will be allocated to each contribution: 20 mins for the presentation,
10 mins for discussion.




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