Dear colleagues,
The annual conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association will this year
take place at the University of Sheffield from 23rd-26th July. The confirmed
plenary speakers are:
* Prof Paul Chilton (Lancaster University, UK)
* Prof Richard Gerrig (Stony Brook University, USA)
* Prof Katie Wales (University of Sheffield, UK)
Award-winning local poet, Simon Armitage, will also be giving a reading of his
work at the conference's opening ceremony.
The theme of the conference is 'Time and the Text', although abstracts are
welcomed for papers on all aspects of stylistics, including cognitive poetics,
corpus stylistics and critical discourse analysis.
The deadline for abstracts has recently been extended to FRIDAY 15TH FEBRUARY.
For further information, please visit the conference website:
<http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/pala2008>
Please use the conference email address below for all correspondence relating to
PALA 2008.
With all best wishes
Dr Joanna Gavins
PALA 2008 Organiser
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