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The papers have been are listed below in the following categories:

The stylistics of war and conflict
Name of speaker
Willie van Peer

Michael Burke



Esther Rowlands
Affiliation
University of Munich

University of Amsterdam



University of Nottingham
Title of paper
The semantics of war [Keynote address]

Discordant minds, discordant souls: A cognitive and emotive appraisal of conflicting views on literariness

Redefining resistance
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Stylistic analyses of texts specifically related to the Anglo-Boer War or the South African situation
Name of speaker
Ina Gräbe



Hein Viljoen



Geoffrey Haresnape

Julie Pridmore


Nettie Cloete

Willie Burger


Elsie Cloete


Wallie Willies



Janet Blignaut


Wolfgang Gebhard

Annette L Combrink

Alcina de Sousa



Louisemarié Combrink

Kay McCormick and Mary Bock

Nicole Geslin
Affiliation
University of South Africa


University of Potchefstroom


University of Cape Town


University of South Africa

University of the North

Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg

Vista, East Rand (Johannesburg)

Potchefstroom University, Vaal Triangle Campus

Vista University, Port Elizabeth

Vista University


Potchefstroom University

University of Madeira



Vaal Triangle Technikon


University of Cape Town


University of Natal, Durban 
Title of paper
Writing between the lines: Perspectives on the Anglo-Boer War in letters from detention camps [plenary]

What Oom Gert does not tell: Silences and resonances of C Louis Leipoldt's "Oom Gert Vertel"

'Voices haunting us, daunting us, taunting us': The Anglo-Boer War poems of Thomas Hardy

"The imperial sentiment which prevails": Writing to and from Natal, circa 1900-1910

"War is hell": Olive Schreiner

Karel Schoeman's voices from the past: Narrating the Anglo-Boer War

Writing 0f(f) the women of the National Women's Monument

Tensions of telling war stories: A comparative analysis of two texts


The missionary and conflict in two historical dramas of the Eastern Cape

Loyalty and betrayal: Themes in the writing of Sol T Plaatje

A Black man writing a White man's war: The Boer War diary of Sol T Plaatje

The clashing I's in literary and pedagogical discourse: André Brink's A dry white season in an EFL Portuguese-speaking setting

Otherness, conflict and the Afrikaner


Narratives of the TRC: Towards a framework for analysis

Using past events to construct a present: Voices at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings
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Stylistic analyses of texts related to history, war and/or conflict
Name of speaker

Roger Sell



Matthew Curr


E Hilton Hubbard

Bernardo Vasconceles


Tony Bex


Szilvia Csabi


Lesley Jeffries


Dominique Costa

Joanna Gavins


Jean-Pierre van Noppen

Andries Visagie


Abdul R Yesufu


Rocio Montoro Araque
Affiliation

Abo Akademi University



University of South Africa

University of South Africa

University of Madeira



University of Kent at Canterbury

ELTIC, Budapest


University of Huddersfield

University of Madeira


Sheffield Hallam University

Université Libre de Bruxelles

University of Zululand


University of Venda


University of Leeds
Title of paper

How much should history weigh? Mediating criticism and the discourse of conflict [Plenary paper] 

The significance of Lynton


Love, war and lexicogrammar: Transitivity and characterization in The Moor's Last Sigh.

Monarchism versus Republicanism: Conflicting discourses in Charles Stanford-Thomas' The Age of Hearts (1912).

Swift's construction of war


A cognitive linguistic analysis of Thomas Paine's Common sense

Star Wars: The reality


Poetics, linguistics and history: Discourses of conflict in John Fowles' A maggot

The absurd worlds of Billy Pilgrim


Methodism: The voice of oppression or liberation?

Maleness and conflict in contemporary Afrikaans literature of the hunt

Scripting the texture of pain: Tropes and pathos in seven war poems

Henry Green and war: "Am I going to be killed soon?" His work from the perspective of a modal grammar point of view
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Stylistic analysis of a more general nature
Name of speaker

Mick Short and Elena Semino and Martin Wynne (Institut für Deutsche Sprache)

Peter Stockwell

Sonia Zyngier


Joseph Bray



Jan-Louis Kruger



Kim Wallmach



Wannie Carstens


Rensia Robinson


Sylvia Hardy


Ina Biermann and Sekepe Matjila
Affiliation

University of Lancaster






Nottingham University

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

University of Strathclyde



Potchefstroom University, Vaal Triangle Campus

University of South Africa


Potchefstroom University







University of South Africa
Title of paper

Revisiting the notion of faithfulness in discourse: Report/(re)representation using a corpus approach [Plenary paper]




Towards a critical cognitive linguistics

"Smudges on the canvas": A corpus stylistics approach to Macbeth

An historical approach to speech presentation: Embedded quotations in eighteenth-century fiction

The focalization of narrative of history in AP Brink's Sandkastele (Imaginings of sand): Towards a translation

"Get them lost just as in the narrow streets of the casbah": metaphors of resistance and subversion in translation

Text linguistics: Relevant linguistics?


Conflict, representation, interpretation: Truth lied

Language and Cinema: Film language in Sabotage

Sound repetition as metaphor marker in "Aferika" by LD Raditladi
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And Finally ....
Name of speaker

Mick Short and associates
Affiliation
Title of paper

The Transvaal Amsterdammer Bird
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