CALL FOR PAPERS and POSTERS

PALA2022
​Hosted by Aix-Marseille Université, France.
6-9 July 2022
Call for papers and posters is open until February 5th 2022.
Notification of acceptance will be around March 15th, 2022.

PALA 2022: Style and Sense(s)

PALA 2022 will give pride of space to sense and senses, investigating how body and mind are inextricably linked, how emotions are both conveyed and perceived, how impressions, thoughts and worldviews can be induced by a certain style, a certain structure, a certain word. PALA 2022 will be the occasion to revisit of the notion of mindstyle but also to explore other styles that connect to the body and senses.
The Aix-en-Provence 2022 PALA conference thus welcomes presentations exploring how style makes sense, how readers make sense of style, what senses are appealed to in different genres of texts, how narrators/authors go about orientating or disorientating sense and cognition to mirror meaningful or senseless worlds. All stylistic approaches, tools and methods are welcome to investigate how language, written, oral, visual, gestual, is used in relation to sense and sensibility.
Abstracts and poster proposals need to be sent online through the conference website.


​Closing date: February 5th 2022

​Special Interest Groups (SIGS)
If you wish your paper to be considered for a SIG, please indicate in your abstract title your choice of SIG (ex: « The pragmatics of Touch » SIG 1).
Please also send your abstract to the SIG organiser(s).
Papers not accepted for inclusion in SIGs will still be considered for inclusion in the main conference.
For details regarding the  SIGS and convenors, please consult the  LIST OF SIGS. on the conference website