Language, Narrative and the New Media
PALA has constantly sought to encourage research in the intersections between the fields of linguistics and literary studies. The PALA 2012 conference consolidates and extends this by looking at how the modalities and ubiquity of new media compel inquiry into the rapidly evolving technocultural contexts that linguistics and literary studies are themselves implicated in at various levels: institutional, thematic, formal, methodological, metadisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and creative. In particular, the conference is interested in the analysis of the specificities of remediated forms of language use, rhetoric and narrativity that appear to call for rethought protocols and extended repertoires of analysis within linguistics and literary studies. This affords some scope for redefinition of the fields concerned, but also for exploration of how contemporary remediation problematizes our understanding of terms like /language/ and /narrative/ which, never transparent, have now become even more complex. The organizers are confident that the eclectic and adaptable quality of areas like discourse analysis, stylistics and narratology, and awareness of the broader study of technoculture which is growing apace in various groupings across the humanities, the sciences and information technology, can make for a rich conference that is fully in the spirit of PALA's long-established traditions of interdisciplinary and innovative inquiry. Abstracts for papers that address any of the concerns indicated above are welcome.
Call for papers
Abstracts for papers should be approximately 300 words in length, and must include the following:
1. a title;
2. the author's name, institutional affiliation;
3. a contact email address;
4. a mailing address;
5. and any special equipment required.
The abstracts must also contain the following: (a) a recognizable thesis/statement or research question; (b) an explanation of the methodology; (c) a short reference to emerging results (if applicable); (d) a list of keywords; and (e) a short list of key references (max. 5).
Papers should not exceed 20 minutes, with a maximum of 10 minutes allowed for questions.
All conference rooms have a computer, data projector, and screen.
The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 13 January 2012.
Abstracts for the conference should be sent to Odette Vassallo
Special interest groups workshops (SIGs)
Proposals for PALA Special Interest Group (SIG) workshops are welcome.
Abstracts should be approximately 300 words in length, and must include the following:
1. a title;
2. the author's name, institutional affiliation;
3. a contact email address;
4. a mailing address.
Sessions will be scheduled for Sunday, 15 July 2012, as pre-conference workshops in the morning and afternoon.
The deadline for PALA Special Interest Group (SIG) workshops is 2 November 2011.
Proposals for PALA Special Interest Group (SIG) workshops should be sent to Odette Vassallo
Please note that there will now not be a three-day pre-conference statistics workshop, as was originally hoped, owing to a clash of conferences for the teaching personnel.
