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The papers have been are listed below in the following categories:

• The stylistics of war and conflict
• Stylistic analyses of texts specifically related to the Anglo-Boer War or the South African situation
• Stylistic analyses of texts related to history, war and/or conflict
• Stylistic analyses of a more general nature
• And finally...

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The stylistics of war and conflict

Name of speaker	Affiliation	Title of paper	Word file	PDF file	Page
Willie van Peer	University of Munich	The semantics of war [Keynote address]			1
Michael Burke	University of Amsterdam	Discordant minds, discordant souls: A cognitive and emotive appraisal of conflicting views on literariness			21
Esther Rowlands	University of Nottingham	Redefining resistance			30

Stylistic analyses of texts specifically related to the Anglo-Boer War or the South African situation

Name of speaker	Affiliation	Title of paper	Word file	PDF file	Page
Ina Gräbe	University of South Africa	Writing between the lines: Perspectives on the Anglo-Boer War in letters from detention camps [Plenary paper]			39
Hein Viljoen	University of Potchefstroom	What Oom Gert does not tell: Silences and resonances of C Louis Leipoldt's "Oom Gert Vertel"			56
Geoffrey Haresnape	University of Cape Town	'Voices haunting us, daunting us, taunting us': The Anglo-Boer War poems of Thomas Hardy			78
Julie Pridmore	University of South Africa	"The imperial sentiment which prevails": Writing to and from Natal, circa 1900-1910			86
Nettie Cloete	University of the North	"War is hell": Olive Schreiner			96
Willie Burger	Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg	Karel Schoeman's voices from the past: Narrating the Anglo-Boer War			105
Elsie Cloete	Vista, East Rand (Johannesburg)	Writing 0f(f) the women of the National Women's Monument			121
Wallie Willies	Potchefstroom University, Vaal Triangle Campus	Tensions of telling war stories: A comparative analysis of two texts			140
Janet Blignaut	Vista University, Port Elizabeth	The missionary and conflict in two historical dramas of the Eastern Cape			150
Wolfgang Gebhard	Vista University	Loyalty and betrayal: Themes in the writing of Sol T Plaatje			165
Annette L Combrink	Potchefstroom University	A Black man writing a White man's war: The Boer War diary of Sol T Plaatje			185
Alcina de Sousa	University of Madeira	The clashing I's in literary and pedagogical discourse: André Brink's A dry white season in an EFL Portuguese-speaking setting			201
Louisemarié Combrink	Vaal Triangle Technikon	Otherness, conflict and the Afrikaner			218
Kay McCormick and Mary Bock	University of Cape Town	Narratives of the TRC: Towards a framework for analysis			230
Nicole Geslin	University of Natal, Durban	Using past events to construct a present: Voices at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings			249

Stylistic analyses of texts related to history, war and/or conflict

Name of speaker	Affiliation	Title of paper	Word file	PDF file	Page
Roger Sell	Abo Akademi University	How much should history weigh? Mediating criticism and the discourse of conflict [Plenary paper]			274
Matthew Curr	University of South Africa	The significance of Lynton			295
E Hilton Hubbard	University of South Africa	Love, war and lexicogrammar: Transitivity and characterization in The Moor's last sigh			314
Bernardo Vasconceles	University of Madeira	Monarchism versus Republicanism: Conflicting discourses in Charles Stanford-Thomas' The Ace of Hearts (1912).			328
Tony Bex	University of Kent at Canterbury	Swift's construction of war			340
Szilvia Csabi,	ELTIC, Budapest	A cognitive linguistic analysis of Thomas Paine's Common sense			352
Lesley Jeffries	University of Huddersfield	Star Wars: The reality			364
Dominique Costa	University of Madeira	Poetics, linguistics and history: Discourses of conflict in John Fowles' A maggot			389
Joanna Gavins	Sheffield Hallam University	The absurd worlds of Billy Pilgrim			402
Jean-Pierre van Noppen	Université Libre de Bruxelles	Methodism: The voice of oppression or liberation?			417
Andries Visagie	University of Zululand	Maleness and conflict in contemporary Afrikaans literature of the hunt			438
Abdul R Yesufu	University of Venda	Scripting the texture of pain: Tropes and pathos in seven war poems			455
Rocio Montoro Araque	University of Leeds	Henry Green and war: "Am I going to be killed soon?" His work from the perspective of a modal grammar point of view			468

Stylistic analyses of a more general nature

Name of speaker	Affiliation	Title of paper	Word file	PDF file	Page
Mick Short and Elena Semino and Martin Wynne (Institut für Deutsche Sprache)	University of Lancaster	Revisiting the notion of faithfulness in discourse: Report/(re)representation using a corpus approach [Plenary paper]			484
Peter Stockwell	Nottingham University	Towards a critical cognitive linguistics			510
Sonia Zyngier	Federal University of Rio de Janeiro	"Smudges on the canvas": A corpus stylistics approach to Macbeth			529
Joseph Bray	University of Strathclyde	An historical approach to speech presentation: Embedded quotations in eighteenth-century fiction			546
Jan-Louis Kruger	Potchefstroom University, Vaal Triangle Campus	The focalization of narrative of history in AP Brink's Sandkastele (Imaginings of sand): Towards a translation			557
Kim Wallmach	University of South Africa	"Get them lost just as in the narrow streets of the casbah": metaphors of resistance and subversion in translation			568
Wannie Carstens	Potchefstroom University	Text linguistics: Relevant linguistics?			588
Rensia Robinson		Conflict, representation, interpretation: Truth lied			596
Sylvia Hardy		Language and Cinema: Film language in Sabotage			616
Ina Biermann and Sekepe Matjila	University of South Africa	Sound repetition as metaphor marker in "Aferika" by LD Raditladi			626

And finally...

Name of speaker	Affiliation	Title of paper	Word file	PDF file	Page
Mick Short and associates		The Transvaal Amsterdammer Bird			643

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