PALA 2021 Proceedings online

Proceedings of PALA 2021, which was held online, hosted by Nottingham University, UK. 

Author and affiliation	Title of paper
Naomi Adam ​University of Liverpool	‘[P]eople will wonder why this black woman’: Double Consciousness, Controlling Images and Intradiegetic Recentering in Marlon James’ (2014) A Brief History of Seven Killings
Mark Boardman University of Huddersfield, UK	From token to exegesis part 1: introducing Corpus Criticism​
Serena Demichelis University of Verona, Italy	Rachel Kushner’s The Mars Room. A Case Study in Narrative and Style​
Mahmood K. Ibrahim ​Imam Ja’afar Al Sadiq University, Iraq	The Linguistic Construction of Political Crimes in Sherko Bekas’ Selected poems​​​
Daban Q. Jaff ​Koya University, Iraq	Conceptualizing Trauma in Eric Walters’ We All Fall Down: A Cognitive Approach to 9/11 Trauma Metaphor​
Xuan Lei ​Beijing Foreign Studies University, China	Authorial Identity Constructed in Popular-Science Texts: Exemplified by Stephen Hawking’s Two Texts on Black Holes​
Ulrike Tabbert University of Huddersfield	Metaphor use in the construction of crime and criminals ​
Ella Wydrzynska ​University of Nottingham	​‘This story starts like all good stories do’: Setting the scene through postmodern and metafictive techniques in the prologues of children’s books

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Krishnamurthy, Sarala. 2011. '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/2011/krishnamurthy2011.pdf]

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