37.250, Confs: Seminar at PALA 2026 Conference: Ecostylistics: The Stylistics of Landscape, Place and Environment (Sweden)

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Date: 16-Jan-2026
From: Elisabetta Zurru [Elisabetta.Zurru at unige.it]
Subject: Seminar at PALA 2026 Conference: Ecostylistics: The Stylistics of Landscape, Place and Environment


Seminar at PALA 2026 Conference: Ecostylistics: The Stylistics of
Landscape, Place and Environment

Date: 19-Aug-2026 - 22-Aug-2026
Location: Uppsala, Sweden
Contact: Elisabetta Zurru
Contact Email: Elisabetta.Zurru at unige.it
Meeting URL:
https://www.uu.se/en/department/english/research/english-linguistics/pala-2026/pala-2026-call-for-papers

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General
Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 30-Jan-2026

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 Daniela Francesca Virdis
(University of Cagliari) and Elisabetta Zurru (University of Genoa).
Its primary aim will be to survey current stylistic approaches to
concepts of landscape, place and environment (and related notions such
as space, setting, cityscape, etc.) against the backdrop of one of the
prominent challenges the world is facing: the ecological and climate
emergency. Secondary aims include developing stylistic practice in
place-based stylistics (e.g., 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.
Papers are invited on:
 - Ecopoetics
 - Ecoliteracy
 - Landscape, place and belonging (e.g., as in postcolonial
literatures)
 - The style of specific writers in their representations of
landscapes, places and the environment
 - Landscape/place/environment in non-literary texts and discourses
 - Travel writing/tourism discourse (including tourist narratives and
tourism advertising/promotion)
 - Figurative/metaphorical aspects of landscape and setting
 - World-building strategies in landscape description
 - The landscapes of science fiction
 - The landscapes of drama and performance
 - The stylistics of specific places
 - The stylistics of setting in specific text types
 - The style of landscape 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 also most 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).



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