PaLA 2008 Proceedings oN-LINE

Free on-line access to the Proceedings of PALA 2008, which was at the University of Sheffield, UK.

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Krishnamurthy, Sarala. 2008. '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/2008/krishnamurthy2008.pdf]
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  • [PDF] Alexander, Marc, The Lobster and the Maid: Scenario-dependence and reader manipulation in Agatha Christie
  • [PDF] Asaka, Kanako, Free Indirect Discourse and the Personal Pronoun 'one' in To the Lighthouse
  • [PDF] Bragina, Catherine, Language and Style in Douglas Adams’s Writings
  • [PDF] Canning, Patricia, ‘The Bodie and the Letters Both’: Blending the Rules of Early Modern Religion
  • [PDF] Caruana, Rose Maria Twists and Turns in Text and Translation
  • [PDF] Domínguez Romero, Elena and Calvo Cortés, Nuria, Is it the editors’ taste or the word’s life?
  • [PDF] Fagel, Suzanne, Structure versus style: the disappearance of stylistics in the Netherlands 1940-1970
  • [PDF] Fontaine, Jeannine, Literary Metaphor: Salience, Form and Function in a Contemporary Author’s Prose Writing
  • [PDF] Hallen, Cynthia L., How to Kill Time: Emily Dickinson and Comparative Indo-European Poetics
  • [PDF] Imahayashi, Osamu, The Dickens Lexicon Project: A Preliminary Report
  • [PDF] Krishnamurthy, Sarala, Representation of time: A Stylistic Analysis of Real and Surreal Elements in Joseph Heller'sCatch 22
  • [PDF] van Leeuwen, Maarten, The style of political speeches: problems in existing methods
  • [PDF] Lennon, Nicola, “War is Over! If you want it”: Using Intertemporal Choice Theory to Monitor Change in the Political Discourse of Northern Ireland
  • [PDF] León, Élida, Constructing a Hero: stylistic features of main characters Charlie Bucket and Harry Potter
  • [PDF] Moss, Lesley, Counting Complexity: Syntactic change in the style of Henry James
  • [PDF] Nemesio, Aldo, Levorato, M. Chiara and Ronconi, Lucia, The Time of Reading: the first perception of characters in narrative texts
  • [PDF] Nosé, Takuji, Speech System of the Stage Manager in Thornton Wilder’s Pullman Car Hiawatha
  • [PDF] Teranishi, Masayuki, The modes of polyphony in George Eliot’s novels
  • [PDF] Thoms, Gary, When sentences are not sentences: evidence against poetic grammar
  • [PDF] Tomita, Saoko, Rhetorical Expressions by Simile in David Copperfield
  • [PDF] Toolan, Michael, Audiofiction: no time for deep thoughts and feelings?
  • [PDF] Virdis, Daniela Francesca, Time and the Text of Sex and the City: The Last Conversation among the Four Female Characters in the American TV Series
  • [PDF] Zerkovitz, Judit, Directions in Blake’s Ah! Sun-flower and Ginsberg’s Sunflower Sutra
  • [PDF] Zurru, Elisabetta, Time is the difference between us and the Indians': Walcott's Catherine