PALA Birmingham 2018 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Alan Walters Building (henceforth: AWB), University of Birmingham

ADVISORIES Please note that this Programme is strictly provisional, as of 14 June 2018, and in some cases conditional upon the

pending conference-registration of particular speakers.

Named Chairs of Sessions: Please treat the nomination of particular individuals to be Chairs of particular sessions

as proposals, or invitations, from the local organizing committee. If any proposed Chair would prefer NOT to chair

the session they have been asked to oversee, would they please email us as soon as possible. We will happily find

a replacement Chair.

DAY 1: WEDNESDAY 25th JULY

11:00 onwards Registration 12:15 – 13:10 Welcome Snacks and Refreshments. AWB Atrium 13.10 – 13.30 Opening remarks

Dr Suganthi John, Head, Dept of English Language & Linguistics, U of Birmingham Prof. Michael Toolan, Chair of Poetics and Linguistics Association Introduction of Members of the local hosting committee: Jai Mackenzie, Stephen Pihlaja, Ruth Page, Eva Gomez, Matt Collins, Emily Trivette, Martine van Driel, Kate Pearce, Marianne Cronin Code of Conduct Reminder

13.30 – 14.30 PLENARY 1. Jannis Androutsopoulos: Style and digital punctuation. Introduced by Ruth Page

14:30 – 15:00 Tea/coffee break

15:00 – 17:30 Parallel Sessions

G03 112 103 111 G11

Session Chairs Billy Clark & Siobhan Chapman

Chair: Marianne Cronin Chair: Kate Pearce Chair: Martine van Driel Session Chairs Ruth Page & Caroline Tagg

Pragmatics & Literature SIG Session 1/4

Eric Rundquist

Conceptualising the drunkard’s mind: Cognitive

Linguistics and Free Indirect Style in Lowry’s Under the

Volcano

Urszula Kizelbach

Impoliteness and point of view in fiction: Ian McEwan’s Solar

Miki Kimura

The Quantitative Stylistics of Alice Bradley Sheldon: Inspecting Intra-

author Variation Through Topic Modelling with R

Multimodality and Social Media SIG

Session 1/2 Josie O'Donoghue

Relevance theory and theory of mind in Shakespeare’s Timon of

Athens

Jane Lugea

The pragma-stylistics of ‘image macro’ memes.

Mel Evans

‘Faugh how she smells’: Exploring

interjections, characterisation and stylometric methods in the drama of Aphra Behn and her

contemporaries

Yaxiao Cui

Trapped in mind-reading: a stylistic exploration of “Good

Old Neon”

Wesam Ibrahim and Waleed Eldemerdache

A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of

Weight-Loss Advertisements

Imane Bouchakour

Contextualizing Social Disablement in Literature: Integrating Corpus

Stylistics and Literary Criticism to Study the Marginalized ‘Other’ in

Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury (1929)

Stephen Pihlaja

‘Hey YouTube’: Positioning the Viewer in Vlogs.

Anne Furlong

In the horrors: Poe’s ‘Tell-Tale Heart’ in the hands of his

adaptors

Limin Li

A Study on Female Images in Romance ---A Case Study of

Small World

Jim O'Driscoll

What makes a tweet menacing? Opening out speech act theory

Svitlana Volkova

Prose as an icon of ethnocultural worldview

Ruth Page

Multimodal style in Snapchat Stories: From synthetic

personalisation to synthetic collectivisation.

Siobhan Chapman

‘The first English stream of consciousness novel’: A neo-

Gricean account of George Moore’s innovative technique in

The Lake (1905)

Esterino Adami

Interdisciplinary approaches to language and style in the

Darjeeling Himalayan Railway texts

Waleed Eldemerdache

The limitations of translatability of the erotic discourse in Alaa Al-

Aswany's Yaaccoubian Building and Chicago OR A discourse analysis of Didier van Cauwelaert's a simple

walk

Reiko Ikeo

The use of the progressive aspect in present-tense narrative

Caroline Tagg

Mobile conversations: understanding multimodal turns through conversation

analysis.

Hector Luis Martinez

Relevance theory and poetry: An inferential analysis of Philip

Larkin’s ‘Mr Bleaney’

Riyukta Raghunath

Possible Worlds Theory and the Ontological Status of

Images in Fiction

Clare Anderson and Mel Evans

Hidden in plain sight: the pejorative power of "mutton dressed as lamb"

Anja Rydén Gramner

“I get so pissed-off”: Anger and Negative Emotions in Talk about

Fiction in Medical Education

Martti Juhani Rudanko

An Angle on Self-Revelation: Agents in Othello's and Iago's

Soliloquies

17:30 – 19:30 Wine & Nibbles Reception. Barber Institute of Fine Art

DAY 2: THURSDAY 26th JULY

8:30 – 9:30 PLENARY 2. Daniel Allington: How to do things with works. Introduced by Stephen Pihlaja

9:30 – 11:00 Parallel Sessions

G03 112 103 111 G11 Session Chairs

Billy Clark & Siobhan Chapman Chair: Esterino Adami

Chair: Jim O’Driscoll Chair: Reiko Ikeo

Session Chairs

Ruth Page & Caroline Tagg Pragmatics & Literature SIG,

Session 2/4 Rula Abu El-Rob

Medical Interaction in a Jordanian

Hospital

Marta Oliva Suárez

Point of View and Narrator’s Control in Agatha Christie’s The

Chocolate Box: A Stylistics Approach

Kirill Ignatov

The Spanish language in the poetry of Richard Blanco

Multimodality and Social Media SIG Session 2/2

Bien Klomberg and Michael Burke

To what extent does language guide point of view in literary

reading-induced mental imagery?

Bryan Alonzo

Millennial Slang: Language Conception and the Perceived Interpersonal Effects among

Speakers Jana Pelclova

‘Meaning you have been known to act rashly’: How Mrs Weasley

negotiates her identity in conflicts in Harry Potter series

Ahmad Tawalbeh

Rhetorical Structure of Methods Section in English and Arabic

Research Articles: A contrastive genre analysis

Larry Stewart

Corpus Linguistics, Gender Analysis, and The Big Bang

Theory

Marissa Caldwell

Interviewers Violating Normative Question-Answer Turn-Taking Structure In U.S. Political News

Interviews

Aleksandra Gnach

Investigating the communication and meaning-making processes of

virtual communities. End of SIG

Billy Clark

‘There were parts of it I liked’: The role of collective inferences

in changing our minds

Will Peyton

Science Fiction Sinicized: The Translingual Style of Liu Cixin’s

Writing

Eman Adil Jaafar

Melvin's Mind-Style: A Corpus Stylistic Analysis of the film As

Good As It Gets

Mahmood Ibrahim

The Construction of the Speaker and Fictional World in The Small Mirrors: Critical Stylistic Analysis

Nina Nørgaard

The Meaning of Paper in the Novel – A Multimodal Stylistic

Approach

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 – 13:00 Parallel Sessions

G03 112 103 111 G11 Session Chairs

Billy Clark & Siobhan Chapman Chair: Will Peyton Chair: Eman Adil Jaafar Chair: Mahmood Ibrahim Chair: Nina Nørgaard

Pragmatics & Literature SIG, Session 3/4

He Huang

Ulysses at Bay: Functional Stylistics Analysis of Joyce’s Short Story “Two Gallants”

Peter K W Tan

Heteroglossia in street names

Jenný Heiða Zalewski

“Every other word I speak is a lie” - Unreliable narrator in

Hvítfeld

Shatha Khuzaee

Integrating Critical Stylistics and Visual Grammar: a Multimodal

Stylistic Approach to the Analysis of Non-Literary Texts

Dwi Noverini Djenar

From ‘passive’ to ‘active’: Pragmatics and the changing

style in Indonesian fiction Sabina Longhitano

A Relevance theoretic analysis of

‘Historical notes on The Handmaid’s Tale’

Józefina Piątkowska

Suggestiveness through iconicity in lyric poetry

Sawsan Hassan

Representing Religion in the British Press: A Corpus-based

Critical Stylistic Analysis

Daniele Borgogni

Discourse and Representation in Emblematics

Lizzie Stewart-Shaw

A Comparative Stylistic Analysis of The Exorcist, 1971 and 40th-

anniversary editions

Anna Bonifazi

The contribution of literary texts to the understanding of

anaphoric markers

Karolien Vermeulen

Meeting God through Reading Style and the Space of Spiritual Experience in the Hebrew Bible

Daniela Francesca Virdis

“She enjoys being stroked”, “They are affectionate, lively and interactive boys”: An Ecostylistic

Scrutiny of Animal Agency in Battersea Dogs & Cats Home

Website

Jessica Norledge

Building the Ark: Text World Theory and the Evolution of

Dystopian Epistolary

Malgorzata Drewniok

“Nine iconic addresses, nine extraordinary hotels, one unique collection” – stylistic analysis of

the language of luxury in the marketing materials of The

Dorchester Collection

13:00 – 14:00 Buffet Lunch 14:00 – 15:00 PLENARY 3. Alice Bell: “It all feels too real”: reader response methods, digital fiction, and the

theories they might break. Introduced by Daniela Virdis

15:00 – 16:00 Parallel Sessions

G03 112 103 111 G11 Session Chairs

Billy Clark & Siobhan Chapman Chair: Karolien Vermeulen Chair: Peter Tan Chair: Jessica Norledge Chair: Malgorzata Drewniok

Pragmatics & Literature SIG,

Session 4/4 Lindita Tahiri

Reading unreliable narration:

whose mind-style is it?

Joy Aworo-Okoroh, Nancy Nkasah and Jude Badaiki

A Multimodal Functional

Analysis of Image, Text flexibility and Cohesive Indeterminacy in Online Football commentaries

Sara Whiteley

Manipulating metaphors: interactions between readers and 'Upon Opening the Chest

Freezer'

Laura Coffey-Glover, Jai MacKenzie, Mark McGlashan and

Sophie Payne

Discourses of gender in children’s toys: A multimodal

analysis of gender construction in ‘create the world’ Lego cards

Adam Gargani

Humorous similes: Humour, poetic effects and style in

relevance theory

End of SIG Wolfgang Teubert

Discourse (studies) in the absence of methodology

Ivan Ghio

Human agency in semi-structured interviews: discursive

construals of public responsibility and personal concerns emerging from the

private discourse on HIV post 1996.

Cristiana Gregoriou

The Transnational Human Trafficking Victim in The Cellar: A critical and stylistic analysis of

the complexity of victim representation in crime fiction

Isabelle van der Bom, Alice Bell, Lyle Skains and Astrid Ensslin

Examining hyperlinks in digital

fiction: a cognitive, empirical approach

Helen Ringrow

“I can feel myself being squeezed, and stretched, moulded and grown, and expanded in my capacity to love loudly and

profoundly”: language, religion, and motherhood online

16.00 – 16.30 Tea/coffee break 16:30 – 17:30 Parallel Sessions

G03 112 103 111 G11 Chair: Wolfgang Teubert Chair: Ivan Ghio Chair: Cristiana Gregoriou Chair: Isabelle van der Bom Chair: Helen Ringrow

Kieran O'Halloran

Film, Poetry, Style: a Pedagogy

Martine van Driel Evaluating News Events: News Values in Reader Responses to News Texts

Dwi Noverini Djenar From ‘passive’ to ‘active’: Pragmatics and the changing style in Indonesian fiction

Rumiko Oyama-Mercer Reading as Sign-Making: A Trans-Modal Approach to Literary Texts

Maria-Eirini Panagiotidou Figurative Language and Iconicity in Ekphrastic Poetry

Sam Browse Barack Obama and the resonant feedback crescendo: The critical cognitive stylistics of oratorical rock’n’roll

Steve Buckledee Sandra Newman’s novel The Country of Ice Cream Star (2015)

Marianne Cronin ‘Ponies eat glitter for breakfast’ versus ‘I am the future’: Exploring gender stereotypes in the text printed on children’s clothing using 500 samples from the UK high street

Iryna Morozova and Olena Pozharytska

Intro- and extraverts: psychological and speech identities in fiction

Matthew Voice and Sara Whiteley ‘Y’all don’t want to hear me, you just want to dance’: Multimodal Applications for Musical Stylistics in the Music Video for Outkast’s ‘Hey Ya’

17:30 – 19:00 G03 POETRY/FICTION READING. Liz Berry and Luke Kennard. Introduced by Michael Toolan. Followed by book signing by the authors in the AWB foyer.

DAY 3: FRIDAY 27th JULY 8:30 – 9:30 G03 PLENARY 4. Rocio Montoro: The language of popular fiction: a corpus stylistics approach.

Introduced by Jai Mackenzie 9:30 – 11:00 Parallel Sessions

G03 112 103 111 G11 Chair: Sam Browse Chair: Emily Trivette Chair: Lettie Dorst Chair: Matt Collins

Chairs:

Ulrike Tabbert & Ilse Ras Dan McIntyre and Lesley Jeffries

The devil has all the best tunes:

investigating the lexical phenomena surrounding Brexit

Beau Pihlaja

Style, Culture, and Power in Digitally Mediated Intercultural

Rhetorical Encounters

Metaphor SIG Session 1 of 2

Tom Barney

Voice-print: Typography and the Sound Patterns of Poetry

Crime SIG Session 1/3

Lettie Dorst

Translating Metaphor across Disciplines, Genres, Modalities

Ulrike Tabbert

Using Stylistics in forensic authorship

identification/attribution Zoe Moores, Dan McIntyre

Hazel Price and John Vice

Subtitling Parliament

Maya Sfeir

Towards an Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Approach for

Analyzing Dramatic Discourse

Chandrasekaran Subramaniam

Multi-disciplined Complex Poetic Metaphor Translation of

Bharathiar Patriotic Tamil Poems

J H Crone

‘Rhythmic signatures’: rhythm in free verse and prose

reconsidered

Patricia Canning

When two worlds collude: Institutional and narrative style in witness statements following

the Hillsborough Football Stadium Disaster.

Katie Wales

'Yet there is method in it': How to speak Ghost in 'Hamlet'

Dian Yong Zhu and Ying Lu

The Pragmastylistic Analysis of Filmic Text My Fair Lady

Ilaria Rizzato

Shakespeare’s Metaphorical Swarms: Text Functions and Implications for Translation

Funke Oni

Restructuring of Nigeria: An Appraisal Analysis of Selected

Newspapers’ Headlines

Andrea Mayr

Funk, favela youth and cultural resistance in Rio de Janeiro

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break 11:30 – 13:00 Parallel Sessions

G03 112 103 111 G11 Chair: Zoe Moores Chair: Maya Sfeir Chair: Lettie Dorst Chair: Tom Barney Chairs:

Ulrike Tabbert & Ilse Ras Brian Walker

The beginning of ‘the Age of

Austerity’: A critical stylistics analysis of Cameron’s 2009 spring conference speech.

Soichiro Oku

A corpus-based approach to ‘an unreliable narrator’ : The case of

“The Remains of the Day”

Metaphor SIG Session 2/2

Emma Andrews

How can multimodal transcription aid in

understanding and improving audio description services?

Crime SIG Session 2/3

Ilse Ras

The Representations of Child

Victims of Human Trafficking in British Newspapers information

on submission Ariana Ciamaricone

Conceptualizing Notions of Rape

and the Implications on Early Modern England in Shakespeare’s

The Rape of Lucrece

Guðrún Línberg Guðjónsdóttir

“It didn’t feel like I was reading, it was like the story was whispered to me” - Free indirect thought and

related stylistic features in Kaldaljós

Ayano Takeuchi

Gender is rendered in “crying”: A quantitative analysis on

descriptions of crying in the poems of The Tale of Genji

Gudrun Reijnierse and Aletta Dorst

Foregrounding vs. deliberateness:

competing or complementary approaches to metaphor?

end of SIG

Tess Lankhuizen

Frames or Panels: Medium and Narrative Engagement in Film

and Comics

Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson and Anna Sigríður Guðfinnsdóttir

Referring to fictional characters: a case study from Bettý (2003)

Peter Richardson, Stephen Pihlaja, Miori Nagashima, Masako

Wada and Makoto Watanabe

Blasphemy and dialogue: applying Positioning Theory to pre-discussion essays and face-

to-face interaction on the topic of Ahok’s trial

Robert Stock

Tracking tweets: analysing immediate, spontaneous and

unsolicited cognitive responses

Aishat Umar

Directives in religious discourse: a pragmatic stylistic analysis of

selected Qur’anic texts

Lisa Nahajec

Finding a positive in a negative: a pragmatic analysis of the words and music of 10cc’s ‘I’m not in

love’ by Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman

Simon Statham

“All of a sudden he asks for a meeting, to discuss shit we

already covered”: a multimodal stylistic analysis of ‘rats’ and their

targets in The Sopranos.

13:00 – 14:00 Buffet Lunch 14:00 – 16.30 Parallel Sessions

G03 112 103 111 G11 Chair: Brian Walker Chair:

Eva Gomez-Jimenez Chair: Ariana Ciamaricone

Chair: Lisa Nahajec Chairs

Ulrike Tabbert & Ilse Ras Anna Cermakova and Michaela

Mahlberg

Women, men, girls and boys in Victorian children’s literature

Graphology SIG Marija Milojkovic

Corpus-derived subtext and prospection in novel writing

Alexandra Whiting

Dissociative Identity Disorder in Fight Club: A case study of the “Car Accident” or “Near-Life

Experience” Scene

Crime SIG Session 3/3

Linda Pilliere

The Voice of Typography

John Douthwaite

Positioning in a detective film

End of SIG

Michaela Mahlberg and Viola Wiegand

Fictional speech and authentic

spoken language

Hugh Escott

‘The Conflict of the End’: Punctuation, Meaning-making

and Collaboration in a Child-Led Creative Writing Workshop

Ian Cushing

Text world theory in the secondary school classroom

Louise Nuttall

Enacted mind style and the experience of war in Atonement

Raya Harbi

The role of empathy in ideology: a reader-response approach to

political literary discourse

Lenka Farova, Anna Cermakova and Michaela Mahlberg

Gender (im)balance in the

Wonderland: Translating the Queen of Hearts

Yuan Tian

The Effect of Multimodality on Enhancing Literature in the Case

of an Autistic Mind Style

Odette Vassallo

The challenges of evaluating literary text engagement with

young bilingual learners

Chloe Harrison

Cinematic free indirect discourse in Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale

Rukmini Bhaya Nair

Postcolonial Method and Textual Style in Contemporary Indian

English Fiction

Tomoji Tabata

Dickens in Vector Space: Word Embeddings and Semantic

Profiling of Style

Eva M. Gomez-Jimenez

Graphology in Stylistics: A state-of-the-art review

End of SIG

Clara Neary

“Please could you stop the noise”: the grammar of multimodal

meaning-making in Radiohead’s “Paranoid Android”

Bernardo Silva

Consciousness representation in John Dos Passos’ U.S.A

Roberta Piazza and Saeedeh Taheri

Through the Nocturnal Animal's

eye or a Text World Theory approach to narrative film

analysis Miyuki Nishio

Investigating “emphatic style” in

Dickens’s works

Michal Ephratt

“Matsushima Ya” —Silence as a poetic strategy and a method

serving literary criticism

.Natalia Belozerova

A Semiotic Perspective of the Category of Space in Literary

Descriptions

Omolade Bamigboye

Text and terror: how boko-haram sends shivers down nigerians' spines using 'ordinary' words

Ruhan Güçlü and Esra Küçüksakarya

A Stylistic Investigation into the

Poems of Mental Patients

16.30 – 17.00 Tea/coffee break 17:00 – 18:00 G03 Plenary 5. Jeannette Littlemore: Which metaphors are embodied? By whom? And when?

Variation in the experience of metaphor. Introduced by Ruby Rennie Panter

DAY 4: SATURDAY 28th JULY 8:30 – 9:30 G03 Plenary 6. Joe Bray: Modernising Austen: questions of value. Introduced by Linda Pillière

9:30 – 11:00 Parallel Sessions

G03 112 103 111 G11 Chair: Tomoji Tabata Chair: Yuan Tian

Chair: Clara Neary Chair: Chloe Harrison Chair: Louise Nuttall

Haruko Sera

A corpus-stylistic approach to Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant: Does the story arouse

emotion in the reader?

Jean Boase-Beier

Translation comparison as stylistic method

Jessica Mason

‘I assume you’ve read…’: Intertextuality, Booktalk and

Identity

Berkan Ulu

From ‘Mars’ to ‘War:’ Stylistic Shift in Leon Gellert’s Songs of a

Campaign

Peter Stockwell

In defence of introspection

Masayuki Teranishi and Masako Nasu

Literature in the EFL classroom: A comparative analysis of plural texts of Jane Austen and Kazuo

Ishiguro

Lorenzo Mastropierro

Key clusters and translator style: A corpus investigation

Ernestine Lahey

The making of Al Purdy

Aili Lundmark

Two Channels, One Style? The case of Elsa Beskow, Sweden's

“grand old lady” of picture books

Lesley Jeffries

Poetry, critical stylistics and a theory of textual meaning

Nicola Snarey

Poetry and Prose in Picturebooks

Giuseppina Balossi

Description and Metaphorisation of the ‘volcano’ in Malcom

Lowry’s Under the Volcano. A Computer-aided Approach

Onyema Christabel

A linguistic stylistic study of selected Nigerian Niger delta

poetry.

Kirill Ignatov

The Spanish language in the poetry of Richard Blanco

Katharina Mucha

Binary discourse constructions exemplified by literature

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break 11:30 – 13:00 Parallel Sessions, 3x30 min. papers

G03 112 103 111 G11 Chair: Haruko Sera Chair: Jean Boase-Beier Chair: Jessica Mason Chair: Katherine Mucha Chair: Lieven Vandelanotte

Rod Hermeston

Developing a Critical Stylistics of Disability

Hiroko Furukawa

Translating Neuter Characters into Japanese: A Gender Change

in the Translations of ‘Folie a Deux’

Tamas Varga

The interaction between music and language in songs with lyrics

Masayuki Nakao

Post-Apocalyptic Narrative Style in Atwood's Oryx and Crake: Present-tense Rendering of

Consciousness

Violeta Sotirova

Subjectivity and Impersonality in Modernist Literature

Andrea Macrae

Social deixis delimited

Raphael Marco Oliveira Carneiro

'Life of Pi' and 'The Handmaid’s Tale' in Brazilian Portuguese: an exploratory study on style and

retranslation from a translational corpus stylistics perspective

Alice Haines

The cognitive poetics of discourse humour

Yu Zhu

Empathy and point of view in literature: a stylistic analysis of ‘clash moments’ in Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Marcello Giovanelli

(Re)-construing the horrors of the trench: Siegfried Sassoon,

creativity and context

Stephen James Coffey

Attempting to objectify lexical (in)formality with the aid of style

labels in English dictionaries: a case study with reference to the

lexis of newspaper headlines

Yasir Al-Jumaili

Keats’s Medical Metaphors of Negative Mental States

Nigel McLoughlin

Temporal Resonance: A cognitive poetic analysis of the treatment of time and resonant qualities in

‘Arioso Dolente’ by Anne Stevenson

Weishan Liang

A Contrastive Analysis of Reports on North Korea’s Missile

Programme: The New York Times and China Daily

Julia Vaeßen and Sven Strasen

Cultural Models and Literary Characters: A Cognitive Cultural

Theory of Character Construction

13:00 – 14:00 Buffet Lunch

14:00 – 16.00 Parallel Sessions, 4x30 min. papers

G03 112 103 111 G11 Chair: Stephen Coffey Chair: Raphael Marco Oliveira

Carneiro

Chair: Nigel McLoughlin Chair: Yu Zhu Chair: Marcello Giovanelli

Tatyana Karpenko-Seccombe

Gambling with the future: the gambling vocabulary in the

political discourse of parliamentary Brexit debates

Huiming Li and Qiuhong Xu

Text-worlds and Point of View

Lieven Vandelanotte

‘Shunting the same idea back and forth?’ Reappraising simile

across text and image

Marina Lambrou

Metalepsis, counterfactuality and being led up the “forked” garden

path

Aiko Saito

Is Polonius a “tedious old fool” as Hamlet says?: Stylistic studies on

his speech styles

Iryna Tryshchenko

Gender Dimension of Modern Dystopia

Davide Castiglione

Poetic difficulty and visual abstraction: an empirical study

Daria Tunca

Modality and the Construction of History in Caryl Phillips's "Made

in Wales"

Sara Ingham

Text and cognition: the role of surface features in the

comprehension of character. Jonathan Fitchett

Talk to Text: the stylistics of

devised theatre

Iris Gemeinboeck

Sexual subjects – agency, empowerment and style in

popular romance fiction

Alison Gibbons

Text World Theory, Ontology, and the Challenge of ‘Reality’ as

“more than we can imagine”

Matt Davies

“What’s a computer?”: Wmatrix and the distilled lyrical art of

Mark E Smith and The Fall

Carolina Fernandez-Quintanilla

Would that count as empathy? An empirical stylistic approach to

narrative empathy

Per Aage Brandt and Ulf Cronquist

Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen's song in the perspective of a

semio-cognitive poetics

Xia Wu and Baofeng Li

An Analysis of Female Gothic Style in The Joy Luck Club

Naoki Hirayama

Complex Sentences in the Paston Letters

Emily R. Anderson

Sensemaking in the Age of Trump

16.00 – 16:15 Tea/coffee break 16:15 – 17:30 Closing Ceremony followed by PALA Annual General Meeting

19:30 Conference Dinner at Hornton Grange with live music

DAY 5: SUNDAY 29th JULY

Conference Excursion to Shakespeare’s Stratford, including visits to the Shakespeare sites, and Royal Shakespeare Theatre backstage tour.

Departs Chamberlain Hall at 9:30 a.m., arrives back at 7:30 pm. NB Lunch not provided, but tables will be reserved at The Windmill and The Black Swan (aka Dirty Duck).