36.3059, Confs: 2026 Conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (Sweden)

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Subject: 36.3059, Confs: 2026 Conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (Sweden)

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Date: 10-Oct-2025
From: Dan McIntyre [dan.mcintyre at engelska.uu.se]
Subject: 2026 Conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association


2026 Conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association
Short Title: PALA
Theme: The Philosophy of Stylistics

Date: 19-Aug-2026 - 22-Aug-2026
Location: Uppsala, Sweden
Contact: Dan McIntyre
Contact Email: dan.mcintyre at engelska.uu.se
Meeting URL:
https://www.uu.se/en/department/english/research/english-linguistics/pala-2026

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis;
Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 30-Jan-2026

Plenary Speakers:
Karl Berglund (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Siobhan Chapman (University of Liverpool, UK)
Catherina Nyström Höög (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Brian Walker (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
Call for Papers:
Although it has its roots in classical rhetoric, modern stylistics
arose from the Russian formalist literary critical movement of the
early twentieth century, from which emerged the notion of
defamiliarization that is central to the stylistic concept of
foregrounding. What set stylistics apart from other literary critical
approaches was its focus on producing analyses that were replicable
and falsifiable. In this respect, the stylistic approach shares an
attitude of mind with the sciences, making it a natural disciplinary
associate of linguistics. As stylistics moves into an academic age
that will likely be dominated by AI, we invite papers that explore the
philosophy of the discipline and its ongoing commitment to objective
analysis. Topics that papers might explore include but are not limited
to the following:
 - The connections between stylistics and linguistics
 - The possibilities for replication and falsification in stylistics
 - The relationship between theoretical and experimental work in
stylistics
 - The potential impact of AI on the practice of stylistics
 - The relationship between cognitive and corpus stylistics
 - The emergence of new subdisciplines of stylistics
 - Integrating stylistics into the literary mainstream
 - Implications of the stylistic methodology for the teaching of
language and literature
 - Practical applications for stylistics
We welcome abstracts that explore these issues as well as those which
address the general concerns of PALA, including the linguistic
analysis of literary and non-literary texts of all types.
Submission Instructions:
We invite submissions of abstracts for 20-minute talks (plus 10
minutes discussion). Upload your abstract to the Easyabs site:
https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/PALA2026/. Please use
Times New Roman 12 pt font and .doc or .docx file format. Abstracts
should be no more than 250 words in length and should contain the
following information:
 - Title of paper
 - Your full name, academic affiliation and email address
 - A recognisable thesis/statement or research question
 - An explanation of your methodology
 - An indication of emerging results
 - An alphabetical list of no more than five keywords
 - A maximum of five references
Please follow SAGE Harvard guidelines for referencing:
https://uk.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/sage_harvard_reference_style_0.pdf
In addition to individual papers, we also invite abstracts for
sessions devoted to Special Interest Groups (SIG). Prospective SIG
organizers should approach potential participants first of all. Each
SIG participant should then submit an abstract via Easyabs, ensuring
that they include the name of the SIG in their abstract. SIG
organizers should submit the following information to
pala2026eng at uu.se:
 - The name of the SIG
 - Full name of SIG organisers, along with academic affiliations and
email addresses
 - A description of the aims and objectives of the SIG session
 - The name of each presenter and their affiliation
 - The order in which papers are to be presented in the SIG
Submissions open: Oct. 10, 2025 - Jan. 30, 2026
Abstract review period: Feb. 1, 2026 - March 1, 2026
Contact Email: pala2026eng at uu.se



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