37.1406, Summer Schools: Stylistics: Back to the Future? (Sweden)

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Subject: 37.1406, Summer Schools: Stylistics: Back to the Future? (Sweden)

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Date: 10-Apr-2026
From: Dan McIntyre [dan.mcintyre at engelska.uu.se]
Subject: Stylistics: Back to the Future?


Stylistics: Back to the Future?

Host Institution: Uppsala University, Sweden
Coordinating Institution: Uppsala University, Sweden
Website:
https://www.uu.se/en/department/english/research/english-linguistics/pala-2026

Dates: 17-Aug-2026 - 18-Aug-2026
Location: Uppsala, Sweden, Sweden

Minimum Education Level: Undergraduate

Focus: ‘Stylistics: Back to the Future?’
We are delighted that the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA)
annual Summer School will this year be taught by:
- Katie Wales, Honorary Professor, School of English, University of
Nottingham, UK.
- Michael Toolan, Emeritus Professor of English Language, University
of Birmingham, UK.
Katie Wales is one of PALA’s founding members and Michael Toolan is
one of PALA’s longest-standing members.
This is a rare opportunity to study with two major figures in
stylistics.
In this 2-day Summer School, which immediately precedes the 2026
Poetics and Linguistics Association conference, we want to show that
using stylistics (in the language-learning or literature classroom, or
simply to assist you in your own writing and reading) gives you ‘a way
into’ a text, starting a conversation about what the text does and
seems to mean. Stylistics starts a journey, and gives you resources to
continue that journey or dialogue. It provides a language to talk
about the language of texts; or we can say it gives us resources, a
‘toolkit’, robust and linguistically-validated ways of describing
texts and thereby helping readers to understand and more fully
appreciate them.
Description:
We will run a series of 10 individual ‘hands on’ seminars over the 2
days; and opening and concluding joint discussion sessions The
seminars will be focussed explorations of carefully selected texts and
the specific challenges they pose for readers and writers. For each of
the topics we introduce there will be writing or analysis exercises to
be undertaken individually or in groups, including some re-writing
tasks. We very much want to make the 2 days enjoyable as well as
stimulating.
Topics will include the uses of metaphor in the opening of Charles
Dickens’ novels; grammetrics and text world theory applied to Edward
Lear’s poetry; voice and readings of poems by Philip Larkin and Sinead
Morrissey; concision and ellipsis in ‘flash fiction’; problems in
unattributed speech in contemporary fiction; adapting a story into a
play; and using corpora as stylistic tools. There will also be two
seminars on ‘applied stylistics’: rhetoric and multi-modality in
‘green’ packaging; and using language ideologies in the EFL classroom.
Recommended background library reading
Lesley Jeffries and Dan McIntyre (2025) Stylistics. 2nd edition.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dan McIntyre and Brian Walker (2019) Corpus Stylistics: Theory and
Practice. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Mick Short (1995) Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose.
London: Longman.
Michael Toolan (2001) Narrative: A Critical Linguistic Introduction.
2nd edition. London: Routledge.
Katie Wales (2011) A Dictionary of Stylistics. 3rd edition. London:
Longman.

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Ling & Literature
                     Pragmatics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Registration: 10-Apr-2026 to 15-Jun-2026

Contact Person: Dan McIntyre
                Email: dan.mcintyre at engelska.uu.se

Apply by Email: pala2026eng at uu.se
Apply on the web:
https://registration.invajo.com/28877f77-d55c-443a-9b63-bacaa0367d82?page=ae3025bd-660f-4833-879c-1c9455fcb0f2

Registration Instructions:
The Summer School is organised as part of the 2026 Poetics and
Linguistics Association conference, taking place at Uppsala
University. Choose the Summer School option on the conference
registration site. N.B. It is possible to register for the Summer
School only and not the main conference.



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