There will be a Special Interest Group workshop on ‘Pragmatics and Literature’ at next year’s PALA (Poetics and Linguistics Association) conference taking place from the 26th to the 29th of June 2024 at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

PALA is a very broad and welcoming organisation with a significant number of student members.

Student membership is free.

The description of the Special Interest Group is below along with the link to the conference call for papers.

The deadline for submissions is 15 January 2024. 

If you’d like your abstract to be considered for this workshop, don’t forgot to say YES when you get to the question about Special Interest Groups in the submission form!

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PRAGMATICS AND LITERATURE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP WORKSHOP 2024

Organisers: Professor Siobhan Chapman (src@liverpool.ac.uk) and Professor Billy Clark (billy.clark@northumbria.ac.uk)

The Pragmatics and Literature Special Interest Group brings together researchers interested in applying ideas from any area in linguistic pragmatics to the analysis of literary texts, broadly understood.

The aim of the workshop is to promote interaction among those working with different theoretical approaches, while sharing a focus on the pragmatic stylistic analysis of specific literary texts. Building on previous workshops of the SIG, we are interested in papers which apply ideas from pragmatic theory to develop understanding of the production, interpretation or evaluation of texts from a variety of historical periods and of literary genres.

CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS:

https://www.pala2024.com/pala2024/home-page/call-for-papers/

CONFERENCE WEBSITE:

https://www.pala2024.com/pala2024/

PALA WEBSITE:

https://www.pala.ac.uk

PALA MEMBERSHIP:

https://www.pala.ac.uk/membership.html