CALL FOR PAPERS and POSTERS
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PALA2025
Location: Aston University Key Dates:
Summer School: July 7th – 9th 2025 Conference: July 9th – 12th 2025 |
PALA 2025:
Digital Stylistics
The conference theme is Digital Stylistics. We invite proposals for twenty-minute papers that explore the relationship between stylistics as an academic discipline and various kinds of digital texts, tools and practices. Papers might explore areas that include, but are not limited to
- stylistic analyses of digital texts
- digital methods for the analysis of texts
- representations of technology and digital themes in literary and non-literary texts
- digital futures (e.g. speculative fictions)
- digital creative practices
- digital reading practices
- explorations of theoretical, methodological, or ethical issues in relation to digital approaches to text production, reception or interpretation
We welcome abstracts that address these and similar issues, but also that explore broader areas of stylistics and, in particular, its relationships to other disciplines such as pragmatics, semantics, narratology, literary studies, cultural studies, language teaching, translation and others.
Please send an abstract of no more than 250 words to the following email address: [email protected]
Abstracts should be sent as email attachments in .doc, .docx or .rtf format and should be named ‘Surname_Abstract_PALA 2025’.
They should contain the following:
- title;
- your full name, academic position, academic affiliation, email address, postal address;
- a recognisable thesis/statement or research question;
- an explanation of the methodology;
- a short reference to emerging results (if applicable)!
- a list of keywords;
- a short list of key references (max. 5).
PALA2025 is a hybrid conference. Please indicate clearly at the end of your abstract if you would like your proposal to be considered for online delivery.
PALA2025 will also include the following SIGs:
- Crime Writing
- Pragmatics and Literature
- Speech, Music, Sound and Style
- Stylistics and Health
- Telecinematic Stylistics
If you are submitting an abstract for a SIG, please indicate this clearly next to the your paper’s title. The deadline for submission of all abstracts is Friday 31st January 2025.
Decisions will be communicated by Friday 7th March 2025.