Style in Fiction Symposium (SIFS)
PALA One-day Symposium
PROGRAMME
Chair: Katie Wales (University of Sheffield)
Venue: George Fox Building
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 09.00-09.45 | Assembly and Registration |
| 09.45-09.50 |
Welcome and Introduction from Isil Bas (Bogazici
University, Turkey) |
| 09.50-10.10 |
Geoffrey Leech (Lancaster University, UK)
'Foreword: Proper words in (im)proper places' |
| 10.10-11.00 |
Mick Short (Lancaster University, UK) 'Thought
presentation 25 years on' |
| 11.00-11.25 |
Coffee |
| 11.25-12.15 |
Elena Semino (Lancaster University, UK) 'Mind
Style 25 years on' |
| 12.15-13.05 |
David Hoover (New York University, USA) ‘A
Conversation Among Himselves: Change and the Styles of Henry James’ |
| 13.05-14.30 |
Lunch |
| 14.30-15.20 |
Barbara Dancygier (University of British
Columbia, Canada) 'Narrative anchors and the processes of story construction: the case of Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin' |
| 15.20-16.10 |
Catherine Emmott (Univeristy of Glasgow,
UK) ‘Stylistics meets Cognitive Science: Style in Fiction from an inter-disciplinary perspective’ |
| 16.10-16.30 |
Tea |
| 16.30-18.00 |
Panel discussion: 'Future directions in the stylistics of
fiction' with Paul Simpson (Queen's University
Belfast, UK), Peter Stockwell (University of Nottingham,
UK) (chair), Michael Toolan (University of Birmingham,
UK) and Peter Verdonk (University of Amsterdam,
Netherlands). |
Tel: +44 (0) 1524 593045 Fax: +44 (0) 1524 843085 E-mail: linguistics@lancaster.ac.uk