PaLA 2007 Proceedings oN-LINE

Free online access to the Proceedings of PALA 2007, which was at Kansai Gaidai University, Hirakata, Osaka, Japan.

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Krishnamurthy, Sarala. 2007. 'Cognitive Stylistics and Petit Recit: An examination of the narrative consciousness in The God of Small Things'.On-line Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA).[http://www.pala.ac.uk/Annual conferences/proceedings/2007/krishnamurthy2007.pdf]
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  • [PDF] Arai, Kyoko, Relevance and Persuasiveness: an analysis of advertising language
  • [PDF] Clark, Urszula, Thinking the unthinkable: mindstyle, lexical priming and the psychological profiler in Thomas Harris’ Silence of the Lambs
  • [PDF] Costa, Patricia, Aiming at the Wider Audience: Strategies for Embedding Latin in Elizabethan Popular Prose
  • [PDF] Fizek, Sonia, Multimodality in the Context of Cyberliterature - Have the New Electronic Media Revolutionized a Narrative?
  • [PDF] Gilbert, Richard, Plausible deniability: Nature as hypothesis in English-language haiku
  • [PDF] Gliserman, Martin, The Heart of One Hundred Novels, 1719-1997
  • [PDF] Ho Lai Ming, Tammy, Contemporary Victorian-centered novels: a comparative study of Fowles's French Lieutenant's Woman and Byatt's Possession
  • [PDF] Imahayashi, Osamu, A corpus-based sociolinguistic study on the use of look-forms in the 19th century
  • [PDF] Kashihara, Kazuko, Updike's style in 'Rabbit, run'
  • [PDF] Kihara, Emiko, A Cognitive Approach to Usage Environment of English Light Verb Constructions
  • [PDF] Kikuchi, Shigeo, Performative Hypothesis of Literary Discourse
  • [PDF] Koguchi, Keisuke, Stylistic Use of Repetition in 'A Tale of Two Cities'
  • [PDF] Kosako, Masuru, Messages in feminine endings in Spenser's The Faerie Queen, Book V
  • [PDF] Krishnamurthy, Sarala, "How ya doin'?" Meta-Pragmatic Awareness in TV-Serials: Friends (A Case Study)
  • [PDF] Lee, Hyang Sook, Mating Birds: A Case of Subversion of an Authoritative Language
  • [PDF] Makodia, Vipulkmar V., Communications & Miscommunications: a pragmatic study of legal discourse
  • [PDF] Moreton, Emma, A corpus-informed study of the narrative of Mary Prince
  • [PDF] Nakagawa, Ken, Some Aspects of Adjectives in 'The Prelude'
  • [PDF] Nishida, Koichi, Definiteness, Indefiniteness, and Anaphoric Relations in English
  • [PDF] Nosé, Takuji, An Aspect of the Linguistic Features of Thought Asides in 'Strange Interlude'
  • [PDF] Okuda, Hiroko, Japan's Constitutional Constraints on War Rhetoric: Analyzing Prime Minister Koizumi's "Starting from Scratch...Again"
  • [PDF] Oyama, Rumiko, The Representation of Motherhood and Maternity in Japan and the UK
  • [PDF] Tomita, Saoko, Metaphors in Great Expectations In Terms of Humanisation and Dehumanisation
  • [PDF] Villareal, Corazon D., Styling Science for the Web
  • [PDF] Yamaguchi, Michiyo, Ready to be read? The Spelling Reformers Dilemma
  • [PDF] Yoshida, Etsuko, Sentences as interaction: the function of conditional clauses and its implication in dialogic discourse