PALA NEWS
PALA student survey
PALA student members, please take the student membership survey.
Kim Pager-McClymont, the new PALA student membership rep, is waiting to hear from you. Your responses will help Kim develop the PALA student community.
PALA student members, please take the student membership survey.
Kim Pager-McClymont, the new PALA student membership rep, is waiting to hear from you. Your responses will help Kim develop the PALA student community.
Larry Stewart
Members of PALA will be saddened to hear the news that Larry Stewart died on 5 June. Anyone who met Larry will have known what a warm, friendly and funny man he was - not to mention a first-class linguist. We will miss him very much.
Members of PALA will be saddened to hear the news that Larry Stewart died on 5 June. Anyone who met Larry will have known what a warm, friendly and funny man he was - not to mention a first-class linguist. We will miss him very much.
Ron Carter
Members of PALA will be saddened to hear the news that, after a long illness, Professor Ron Carter died on Wednesday, 12th September 2018.
There will be a private family funeral and Ron asked that no memorial or commemoration be held.
If any PALA colleagues would like to send messages or cards of condolence to Jane Carter and the family, Peter Stockwell has kindly offered to receive and forward them. They can be sent to him at the School of English, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK, or to his email address: Peter. Stockwell[at]nottingham.ac.uk
Members of PALA will be saddened to hear the news that, after a long illness, Professor Ron Carter died on Wednesday, 12th September 2018.
There will be a private family funeral and Ron asked that no memorial or commemoration be held.
If any PALA colleagues would like to send messages or cards of condolence to Jane Carter and the family, Peter Stockwell has kindly offered to receive and forward them. They can be sent to him at the School of English, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK, or to his email address: Peter. Stockwell[at]nottingham.ac.uk
PALA PRIZE 2017
The winner of the 2017/2018 PALA Prize for the best article published in 2017 on Language and Literature by a new comer to the field is Davide Castiglione, for his article on "Difficult Poetry Processing: Reading Times and the Narrativity Hypothesis". Congratulations Davide!
The winner of the 2017/2018 PALA Prize for the best article published in 2017 on Language and Literature by a new comer to the field is Davide Castiglione, for his article on "Difficult Poetry Processing: Reading Times and the Narrativity Hypothesis". Congratulations Davide!
PALGRAVE PRIZE 2017
The winner of the 2017/2018 Palgrave Prize for the best written version of a presentation delivered by a student at the PALA2017 Conference in West Chester is Matthew Collins, for his article "Old Texts and New: A Digital King Arthur". Congratulations Matthew!
The winner of the 2017/2018 Palgrave Prize for the best written version of a presentation delivered by a student at the PALA2017 Conference in West Chester is Matthew Collins, for his article "Old Texts and New: A Digital King Arthur". Congratulations Matthew!
Michael Halliday (1925-2018)
Members of PALA will be saddened to learn of the death, on Sunday 15th April in Sydney, of Michael Halliday.
Members of PALA will be saddened to learn of the death, on Sunday 15th April in Sydney, of Michael Halliday.
PALA Proceedings 2017 online.
Papers from the PALA 2076 conference in West Chester are now freely available online from the PALA website. Each year all presenters of papers are invited to produce a written version of their papers for online publication.
Papers from the PALA 2076 conference in West Chester are now freely available online from the PALA website. Each year all presenters of papers are invited to produce a written version of their papers for online publication.
PALA PRIZE 2016
Congratulations to Héloïse Vande Wiele for winning this year’s PALA Prize with her article ‘The Loss of Poetic Effects: From intermediate to conventionalised meaning’.
Congratulations to Héloïse Vande Wiele for winning this year’s PALA Prize with her article ‘The Loss of Poetic Effects: From intermediate to conventionalised meaning’.
PALGRAVE PRIZE 2016
The winner of the PALGRAVE Prize 2015 is:
Rachel Hanna (Queen’s University Belfast, UK), for her paper ‘The role of evaluation in telling and reading the “real-life stories” of asylum seekers’.
The winner of the PALGRAVE Prize 2015 is:
Rachel Hanna (Queen’s University Belfast, UK), for her paper ‘The role of evaluation in telling and reading the “real-life stories” of asylum seekers’.
REPORT BACK
Manipulating the reader in fiction. A Stylistic Perspective (Aix-Marseille University, 28 April 2017)
On 28 April 2017 in Aix-en-Provence, Prof. Sandrine Sorlin, the current chair of the French Society for English Stylistics, brought an international team of stylisticians together to focus on how readers are ‘manipulated’ during their experience of reading. Crossing several disciplines in exploring the linguistic, psychological and cognitive sources of manipulation, the symposium participants delved into the nature of the emotions that the fictional work tends to elicit as well as the positions readers are encouraged to occupy. Coming from different theoretical backgrounds, they gave rich and varied talks addressing these questions: How do fictional works stylistically and pragmatically go about leading readers to particular types of response? How is reader attention controlled? How are potential expectations played with, or emotions triggered?
The programme of the one-day conference can be downloaded from the Société de Stylistique Anglaise’s website
Publication of all the papers from the conference is under consideration. To stay informed of developments, please follow the French SSA on Twitter and Facebook!
Manipulating the reader in fiction. A Stylistic Perspective (Aix-Marseille University, 28 April 2017)
On 28 April 2017 in Aix-en-Provence, Prof. Sandrine Sorlin, the current chair of the French Society for English Stylistics, brought an international team of stylisticians together to focus on how readers are ‘manipulated’ during their experience of reading. Crossing several disciplines in exploring the linguistic, psychological and cognitive sources of manipulation, the symposium participants delved into the nature of the emotions that the fictional work tends to elicit as well as the positions readers are encouraged to occupy. Coming from different theoretical backgrounds, they gave rich and varied talks addressing these questions: How do fictional works stylistically and pragmatically go about leading readers to particular types of response? How is reader attention controlled? How are potential expectations played with, or emotions triggered?
The programme of the one-day conference can be downloaded from the Société de Stylistique Anglaise’s website
Publication of all the papers from the conference is under consideration. To stay informed of developments, please follow the French SSA on Twitter and Facebook!
PALA Proceedings 2016 online.
Papers from the PALA 2016 conference in Cagliari are now freely available online from the PALA website. Each year all presenters of papers are invited to produce a written version of their papers for online publication.
Papers from the PALA 2016 conference in Cagliari are now freely available online from the PALA website. Each year all presenters of papers are invited to produce a written version of their papers for online publication.