2007 Annual Conference in Japan
31 July - 4 August 2007
Kansai Gaidai University,
Hirakata, Osaka, Japan

"Style and Communication"

How does language vary between different types of discourse or different contexts? How do writers or speakers exploit language variation to communicate their intended messages? What contribution do linguistic forms or stylistic variation make in interaction?

We look forward to receiving proposals (in any style!) considering the multi-dimensional relationship between style and communication in all domains of language, as well as proposals which reflect the established range of approaches to stylistic research. See "Call for papers" for further information.

Our plenary speakers

   Professor Geoffrey Leech (University of Lancaster)
    Style in Interior Monologue: Virginia Woolf's 'The Mark on the Wall'
   Professor Yoshihiko Ikegami (Showa Women's University)
    Linguistics and Poetics of 'Ego as Zero': The Japanese Speaker's Preferential Choice of Subjective Rather Than Objective Construal
   Professor Andreas H. Jucker (University of Zurich)
    News Discourse in the third Millennium
   Professor Sylvia Adamson (University of Sheffield)
    Text, Context and the Interpretive Community: towards a new historical stylistics


Latest announcements
 

[26/Jul/07] DOCUMENTS UPDATED: PALA 2007 abstracts and Detailed conference programme are revised and updated.
[18/Jul/07] DETAILED CONFERENCE PROGRAMME: The detailed conference programme is available in Adobe Acrobat PDF and Microsoft Word 97-200X formats. Click here for more information.
[18/Jul/07] PALA2007 ABSTRACTS: Abstracts are available here.
[01/Jul/07] CONFERENCE SCHEDULE: Check the summary conference schedule here.
[01/Jul/07] PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP: Click here for detailed information on the pre-conference. (A new window pops up!)
[24/Jun/07] REGISTRATION CLOSED: Registration is closed on 24 June 2007.
[02/Feb/07] PALA BURSARIES: PALA offers bursaries for the PALA2007 conference. Please visit Pala website for further information.


Contact information
The Conference Committee of PALA 2007 can be reached by e-mail at contact@pala2007.com (Nozomi Yamasaki).


PALA official website
The official website of PALA (the Poetics and Linguistics Association) is at http://www.pala.ac.uk/.



 Mata aimashou! (See you again!)
 

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