PALA 25 Stylistics and Social Cognition 18-23 July 2005
This conference took place from 18 to 23 July 2005. Our thanks to all who attended and made it a success. A selection of papers from the conference are available in the following book:
Jeffries, L., McIntyre, D. and Bousfield, D. (eds) (2007) Stylistics and Social Cognition. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
The 25th annual conference of PALA considered the next step towards an integrated theory of style; recognition of the overlapping commonality of meaning that may arise amongst communities of readers linked by social, geographical, historical, political and other aspects of their backgrounds. We are still learning from cognitive stylistics how individuals draw meaning from text. We have more to learn from traditional stylistics and from critical discourse analysis about the potential which texts have to embed meanings (which may also be naturalised ideologies) in stylistic choices. One of the aims of the conference was to add a third string to the bow, by considering those aspects of textual meaning that are social, that mark out agreement rather than variation, and that may be said to stand somewhere between the individual text/reader and the genre/society.
Below you will find some archived information about the conference.
Plenary speakers at the conference
Urszula Clark (University of Wolverhampton, UK) *
David Hoover (New York University, USA)
Ron Carter (University of Nottingham, UK)
* Urszula Clark is now at the University of Aston, UK
Original call for papers
PALA is celebrating. The year 2005 will see our 25th annual conference and we are proud to have grown in that time into a mature international organisation. During the years since PALA’s founding, stylistics has evolved and matured, and in recent years, PALA has been at the forefront of the emergence of cognitive stylistics; textual analysis with a new focus on how readers make meaning from text.
The 25th Annual conference of PALA will consider the next step towards an integrated theory of style; recognition of the overlapping commonality of meaning that may arise amongst communities of readers linked by social, geographical, historical, political and other aspects of their backgrounds. We are still learning from cognitive stylistics how individuals draw meaning from text. We have more to learn from traditional stylistics and from critical discourse analysis about the potential which texts have to embed meanings (which may also be naturalised ideologies) in stylistic choices. We want to add a third string to the bow, by considering those aspects of textual meaning that are social, that mark out agreement rather than variation, and that may be said to stand somewhere between the individual text/reader and the genre/society.
These three approaches are not mutually exclusive, and all of them will be welcomed in this celebration of diversity and eclecticism in Stylistics and Poetics. We do, however, look forward to receiving proposals specifically connected to the theme of the conference, as well as proposals which reflect the established range of approaches to stylistic research.
Abstracts for papers should be 300-500 words, and must include a title, the author's name, institutional affiliation, mailing address, email address, and any special equipment needed (overhead projectors will be available for all sessions).
Abstracts for panel discussions and workshops should also be 300-500 words, and must include the same information as a paper abstract for both the organizer and each participant.
Papers will be scheduled in strictly enforced 30 minute blocks within 90 minute or 120 minute sessions, to allow members of the audience to move from session to session between papers. Each paper should be 20 minutes long, reserving 10 minutes for questions, discussion, and moving from one room to another. Panel discussions or workshops can be scheduled for either 90 or 120 minutes.
Download a copy of the conference programme
Download the book of abstracts from the conference
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