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PALA Nottingham 2021 Programme PALA Nottingham 2021 Programme Tuesday 06 July 2021 Pre-Conference Social Events 18.00 – 19.30: Postgraduate Social The evening before the conference, we will host a social event exclusively for postgraduate researchers and those who are new to PALA. There will be a quiz of four rounds ranging from general trivia and puzzles to your knowledge of ‘Language and Literature’. This is a great opportunity to get to know other participants new to PALA in an informal context. We hope many of you can join us this evening. Welcome to the Digital PALA Pub We will also be opening the Digital PALA Pub on Tuesday night at 20.00 ahead of the Opening Ceremony on Wednesday. (Note that all timings in this Programme are Nottingham time: BST in the UK). The PALA pub will remain open for the duration of the conference; feel free to pop in and pull up a virtual table whenever you fancy! You can meet in the pub to discuss papers that you have just attended as well. 2 Day One – Wednesday 07 July 2021 Welcome to PALA Nottingham 2021: 9.00 - 9.30 Dr Marina Lambrou, Chair of the Poetics and Linguistics Association Prof. Peter Stockwell & Dr Jessica Norledge The PALA 2021 Organising Team (Noor Dabbas, Alex Duncan, Marina Galanou, Sarah Grandage, Rebecca Gregory, Claire Humphries, Sarah Nolan, Paweł Szudarski Rebecca Peck, Violeta Sotirova, Antonia Stoyanova, Jason Whitt, Christopher Woolston, Ella Wydrzynska) Details on the Teams set up and guidance on how to best navigate the conference will be given as part of this introductory session. Screen Break: 9.30 – 9.45 3 Parallel Panels, Group A: 9.45 – 11.15 Lovelace Cavendish Lawrence Byron Chair: Jessica Norledge Chair: Rebecca Gregory Chair: Peter Stockwell Chair: Paweł Szudarski Mayowa Akinlotan Junyuan Gu, Hannah Rohde and Nourhan Mohamed Haruko Sera Catholic University of Eichstätt- Patrick Sturt University of Nottingham, Malaysia University of Hyogo, Kobe Ingolstadt /University of Texas at Austin University of Edinburgh Building text-worlds one clause at a A corpus stylistic approach to Kazuo A cognitive selectivity performance Consciousness presentation and time: transitivity as a precursor for Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled: how do framework of metaphor reference focalization and characterization in the readers interpret and feel about the world-building of Otared story? Stefana Garello and Marco Xinran Yang Carmen Bonasera and Claudia- Haya Jasim and Eman Adil Jaafar Carapezza Tsinghua University Roberta Combei University of Palermo University of Pisa University of Baghdad Tense, focalization and mind: a Four ways to metaphor comprehension: triangulate relationship in One Flew A murderer’s ‘fancy prose style’: A corpus-based stylistic analysis of a towards a bidimensional account of Over the Cuckoo’s Nest sentiment analysis and affective collection of online suicide notes metaphor responses in Lolita retrieved from Reddit Clara Neary and Eileen Ying Fang Paula Ghintuiala Mark Boardman Pollard Yangzhou University Aston University University of Huddersfield University of Chester The interpretation of stream-of- ‘Sometimes, we do bad things for the From token to exegesis: introducing ‘When we say the night has a velvet consciousness play After the Fall from people we love’: an exploration of Corpus Criticism darkness, we romance. When we say the the perspective of the cognitive concepts shared empathy between a serial killer soul is black, we are turning a phrase’: of role and values and the audience in the American metaphors of matter and metaphors that television series ‘YOU’ matter in Hilary Mantel’s Fludd (1989) Screen Break: 11.15 – 11.30 4 Parallel Panels, Group B: 11.30 – 13.00 Lovelace Cavendish Lawrence Byron Chair: Helen Ringrow Chair: Moniek Kuijpers Chair: Billy Clark Chair: Rocío Montoro Katharina Mucha Denise Wong Eirini Panagiotidou Xuan Lei Ruhr University Bochum Queen Mary, University of London West Chester University Tsinghua University Facets of storytelling – on the The inescapable shame of interior Transportation in ekphrastic poetry: the Construction of authorial identity in characters’ vulnerability or fragility dialogue in Carmen Maria Machado’s In body and the mind popular-science texts – exemplified by the Dream House (2019) Stephen Hawking’s two texts on black holes Carolina Fernandez-Quintanilla Lilla Farmasi Chidi Nwankwo and Chucka Ononye Alison Gibbons Jane Lugea, Gemma Carney, Paula University of Szeged University of Nigeria Sheffield Hallam University Devine and Jan Carson Queen's University Belfast ‘I’m not talking about insomnia’: Poetic representation of social Reading celebrity autofiction dissociation and/as storytelling in experience: a transactional reading of Dementia mind styles in contemporary Haruki Murakami’s ‘Sleep’. Achebe’s war poetry fiction: an empirical approach Antonia Stoyanova Tjaša Mohar, Olivera Kusovac Anna Chesnokova and Sonia Zyngier Tim Kenny University of Nottingham and Michelle Gadpaille Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University University of Liverpool University of Maribor The presentation of the ‘divided self’ in Responding to poetry in the original and Speaking art, speaking to art: metaleptic John Banville’s novels Katherine Porter’s Pale Horse, Pale in translation: how style affects sense communications in Catullus 64 Rider: the process of disintegration and reintegration of Miranda’s identity Lunch: 13.00 – 14.00 5 Parallel Panels, Group C: 14.00 – 15.30 Lovelace Cavendish Lawrence Byron Chair: Marcello Giovanelli Chair: Sven Strasen Chair: Jennifer Harding Chair: Małgorzata Drewniok Iris Gemeinboeck Samuel Alaba Akinwotu Andrew Currie Daniela Francesca Virdis University of Vienna Adekunle Ajasin University Strathclyde University University of Cagliari Sublime narratives, sublime keywords – Representation of social actions and Literary interpretations of linguistic Environmental stylistics: theoretical and the Gothic aesthetic of passions actors in selected songs of Folarin form: a psychological model analytical approaches to discourses of Falana (FALZ) nature, the environment and sustainability Nigel Fabb Rania Habib Serena Demichelis Harry Taverner Strathclyde University Syracuse University University of Verona University of Grenada Uncanny form Arabic songs: an affective medium for Rachel Kushner’s The Mars Room: a Ecolinguistics: a corpus-based approach combating COVID-19 and other crises case study in narrative to the analysis of environmental reports and style and mission statements Anne Furlong Salvador Alarcón-Hermosilla Raphael Carneiro Robert Poole University of Prince Edward Island University of Almería Federal University of Uberlândia University of Alabama Positioning the other: adaptation and Sticky Fingers: metonymic ‘I don’t really get it!’ Making sense of A corpus-assisted eco-stylistic analysis alterity conceptualization of drugs and emotions text and context in E.J. Pratt’s ‘Erosion’ of Richard Powers’ The Overstory in the lyrics of The Rolling Stones Screen Break: 15.30 – 15.45 6 Parallel Panels, Group D: 15.45 – 16.45 Lovelace Cavendish Lawrence Byron Chair: Ella Wydrzynska Chair: Victoria Pöhls Chair: Fransina Stradling Chair: Naomi Adam Israel Noletto Martin Gliserman Natalia Campos Martinez Alex Broadhead Federal University of Piauí/ Federal Rutgers University University of Sheffield University of Liverpool University of Piauí-PPGEL Semantics, cognition and culture Reader manipulation and ethical Spelling and sense in early dialect positioning in Margaret Atwood’s writing Supporting and competing narratives ‘Bread’: a Text World Theory analysis mediated by glossopoesis in science fiction Timofei Protasov Sven Strassen and Ralph Schneider Polina Gavin Lucie Houdu University of Tyumen Aachen University Aston University Université d'Artois Inaccessibility in Science Fiction: new Cultural simulators and the experience ‘There is never only one, of anyone’: Gaps and foreign words: an awakening approaches to yet again defining and of literary character fictional ekphrasis representing the of the senses in Tony Harrison’s poetry measuring fantasticality experience of childhood trauma in M. Atwood’s The Cat’s Eye Screen Break: 16.45 – 17.00 7 PLENARY SESSION: 17.00 – 18.00 Prof. Lisa Zunshine University of Kentucky The secret life of literature Chair: Peter Stockwell END OF DAY ONE 8 Day Two – Thursday 08 July 2021 PLENARY SESSION: 09.00 - 10.00 Prof. Tomoji Tabata University of Osaka Different paths to the same peak: digital humanities and Spitzerian stylistics Chair: Violeta Sotirova Screen Break: 10.00 – 10.15 9 Parallel Panels, Group E: 10.15 – 11.15 Lovelace Cavendish Lawrence Byron Chair: Violeta Sotirova Chair: Elif Aytemiz Chair: Xuan Lei Chair: Starlina Rose Eri Shigematsu Azumi Yoshida, Masayuki Teranishi, Hongyan Xu Olfat Nour El-Din Tottori University Takayuki Nishihara and Masako Tsinghua University MSA University, Cairo Nasu Representation of perception in the University of Hyogo Humour styles of chinese male and Reinventing Bluebeard: a novel: from traditional past-tense female college students in gender sociopragmatic study of genre narrative to contemporary present-tense The influence of L1 on L2 proficiency: a identity construction – a case study of narrative stylistic analysis of English writings by three universities Japanese EFL learners Sylvia Adamson Nor Shahila Mansor, Norazah Abdul Monica Lucioni Nadelina Ivova University of Sheffield Aziz, and Hazlina Abdul Halim, UCSC Milan South-West University ‘Neofit Rilski’ Universiti Putra Malaysia Blagoevgrad Change, choice and functional ecology: Humour through
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