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PALA Birmingham 2018 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Alan Walters Building (henceforth: AWB), University of Birmingham
ADVISORIES
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This Programme is as definitive as we can make it, as of today 17th July 2018.
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DAY 1: WEDNESDAY 25th JULY 11:00 onwards Registration 12:15 – 13:10 Welcome Snacks and Refreshments. AWB Atrium 13.10 – 13.30 Opening remarks
Dr Suganthi John, Head, Dept of English Language & Linguistics, University of Birmingham Prof. Michael Toolan, Chair of Poetics and Linguistics Association Introduction of Members of the local hosting committee: Jai Mackenzie, Stephen Pihlaja, Ruth Page, Eva Gomez,
Matthew Collins, Emily Trivette, Martine van Driel, Kate Pearce, Marianne Cronin Code of Conduct Reminder
13.30 – 14.30 PLENARY 1. Jannis Androutsopoulos: Style and digital punctuation. Introduced by Ruth Page
14:30 – 15:00 Tea/coffee break 15:00 – 17:30 Parallel Sessions
G03 112 103 111 G11
Session Chairs Billy Clark & Siobhan Chapman
Chair: Marianne Cronin Chair: Kate Pearce Chair: Martine van Driel Session Chairs Ruth Page & Caroline
Tagg Pragmatics & Literature SIG
Session 1/4 Eric Rundquist
Conceptualising the
drunkard’s mind: Cognitive Linguistics and Free Indirect
Style in Lowry’s Under the Volcano
Daniela Francesca Virdis
“She enjoys being stroked”, “They are affectionate, lively and
interactive boys”: An Ecostylistic Scrutiny of Animal Agency in Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
Website
Miki Kimura
The Quantitative Stylistics of Alice Bradley Sheldon: Inspecting Intra-
author Variation Through Topic Modelling with R
Language and New Media SIG
Session 1/2 Josie O'Donoghue
Relevance theory and theory of mind in Shakespeare’s Timon of
Athens
Jane Lugea
The pragma-stylistics of ‘image macro’ memes.
Mel Evans
‘Faugh how she smells’: Exploring interjections, characterisation and stylometric methods in the drama
of Aphra Behn and her contemporaries
Yaxiao Cui
Trapped in mind-reading: a stylistic exploration of “Good
Old Neon”
Katie Wales
'Yet there is method in it': How to speak Ghost in 'Hamlet'
Imane Bouchakour
Contextualizing Social Disablement in Literature: Integrating Corpus Stylistics
and Literary Criticism to Study the Marginalized ‘Other’ in Faulkner’s The
Sound and the Fury (1929)
Stephen Pihlaja
‘Hey YouTube’: Positioning the Viewer in Vlogs.
Anne Furlong
In the horrors: Poe’s ‘Tell-Tale Heart’ in the hands of his adaptors
Limin Li
A Study on Female Images in Romance ---A Case Study of
Small World
Jim O'Driscoll
What makes a tweet menacing? Opening out speech act theory
Svitlana Volkova
Prose as an icon of ethnocultural worldview
Ruth Page
Multimodal style in Snapchat Stories: From
synthetic personalisation to synthetic
collectivisation. Siobhan Chapman
‘The first English stream of
consciousness novel’: A neo-Gricean account of George Moore’s innovative technique in The Lake
(1905)
Esterino Adami
Interdisciplinary approaches to language and style in the
Darjeeling Himalayan Railway texts
Clare Anderson and Mel Evans
Hidden in plain sight: the pejorative power of "mutton
dressed as lamb"
Masayuki Nakao
Post-Apocalyptic Narrative Style in Atwood's Oryx and Crake: Present-tense Rendering of Consciousness
Caroline Tagg
Mobile conversations: understanding multimodal turns through conversation
analysis.
Hector Luis Grada
Relevance theory and poetry: An inferential analysis of Philip
Larkin’s ‘Mr Bleaney’
Riyukta Raghunath
Possible Worlds Theory and the Ontological Status of
Images in Fiction
Kirill Ignatov
The Spanish language in the poetry of Richard Blanco
Anja Rydén Gramner
“I get so pissed-off”: Anger and Negative Emotions in Talk about
Fiction in Medical Education
Martti Juhani Rudanko
An Angle on Self-Revelation: Agents in Othello's and Iago's
Soliloquies
17:40 – 19:30 Wine & Nibbles Reception. Barber Institute of Fine Art, + tour guided by Jill Ambler and Marion Edwards
DAY 2: THURSDAY 26th JULY
9:00 – 10:00 PLENARY 2. Daniel Allington: How to do things with works. Introduced by Stephen Pihlaja
10:00 – 11:00 Parallel Sessions
G03 112 103 111 G11 Session Chairs
Billy Clark & Siobhan Chapman Chair: Esterino Adami
Chair: Jim O’Driscoll Chair: Reiko Ikeo
Session Chairs
Ruth Page & Caroline Tagg Pragmatics & Literature SIG,
Session 2/4 Rula Abu El-Rob
Medical Interaction in a Jordanian
Hospital
Marta Oliva Suárez
Point of View and Narrator’s Control in Agatha Christie’s The
Chocolate Box: A Stylistics Approach
Marissa Caldwell
Interviewers Violating Normative Question-Answer Turn-Taking Structure In U.S. Political News
Interviews
Language and New Media SIG Session 2/2
Bien Klomberg and Michael Burke
To what extent does language guide point of view in literary
reading-induced mental imagery?
Aleksandra Gnach
Investigating the communication and meaning-making processes of
virtual communities. END of SIG
Jana Pelclova
‘Meaning you have been known to act rashly’: How Mrs Weasley
negotiates her identity in conflicts in Harry Potter series
Ahmad Tawalbeh
Rhetorical Structure of Methods Section in English and Arabic
Research Articles: A contrastive genre analysis
Eman Adil Jaafar
Melvin's Mind-Style: A Corpus Stylistic Analysis of the film As
Good As It Gets
Daniele Borgogni
Discourse and Representation in Emblematics
Giuseppina Balossi
Description and Metaphorisation of the ‘volcano’ in Malcom
Lowry’s Under the Volcano. A Computer-aided Approach
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break 11:30 – 13:00 Parallel Sessions
G03 112 103 111 G11
Session Chairs Billy Clark & Siobhan Chapman
Chair: Will Peyton Chair: Eman Adil Jaafar Chair: Marissa Caldwell Chair: Nina Nørgaard
Pragmatics & Literature SIG, Session 3/4
Li Baofeng
On the Gothic Style of Hamlet
Peter K W Tan
Heteroglossia in street names
Jessica Norledge
Building the Ark: Text World Theory and the Evolution of
Dystopian Epistolary
Shatha Khuzaee
Integrating Critical Stylistics and Visual Grammar: a Multimodal
Stylistic Approach to the Analysis of Non-Literary Texts
Billy Clark
‘There were parts of it I liked’: The role of collective inferences
in changing our minds
Dwi Noverini Djenar
From ‘passive’ to ‘active’: Pragmatics and the changing
style in Indonesian fiction
Józefina Piątkowska
Suggestiveness through iconicity in lyric poetry
Sawsan Hassan
Representing Religion in the British Press: A Corpus-based
Critical Stylistic Analysis
Raya Harbi
'Is my 1984 the same as yours?' Positioning and orientation in readers' responses to Orwell's
1984: A text-world theory approach
Lizzie Stewart-Shaw
A Comparative Stylistic Analysis of The Exorcist, 1971 and 40th-
anniversary editions
Sabina Longhitano
A Relevance theoretic analysis of ‘Historical notes on The
Handmaid’s Tale’
Karolien Vermeulen
Meeting God through Reading Style and the Space of Spiritual Experience in the Hebrew Bible
Urszula Kizelbach
Impoliteness and point of view in fiction: Ian McEwan’s Solar
Nicola Snarey
Poetry and Prose in Picturebooks
Malgorzata Drewniok
“Nine iconic addresses, nine extraordinary hotels, one unique collection” – stylistic analysis of
the language of luxury in the marketing materials of The
Dorchester Collection
13:00 – 14:00 Buffet Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 PLENARY 3. Alice Bell: “It all feels too real”: reader response methods, digital fiction, and the theories they might break.
Introduced by Daniela Virdis
15:00 – 16:00 Parallel Sessions
G03 112 103 111 G11 Session Chairs
Billy Clark & Siobhan Chapman Chair: Karolien Vermeulen Chair: Peter Tan Chair: Jessica Norledge Chair: Malgorzata Drewniok
Pragmatics & Literature SIG,
Session 4/4 Lindita Tahiri
Reading unreliable narration:
whose mind-style is it?
Nina Nørgaard
The Meaning of Paper in the Novel – A Multimodal Stylistic
Approach
Sara Whiteley
Manipulating metaphors: interactions between readers and 'Upon Opening the Chest
Freezer'
Laura Coffey-Glover, Jai MacKenzie, Mark McGlashan and
Sophie Payne
Discourses of gender in children’s toys: A multimodal
analysis of gender construction in ‘create the world’ Lego cards
Anna Bonifazi
The contribution of literary texts to the understanding of
anaphoric markers
Adam Gargani
Humorous similes: Humour, poetic effects and style in
relevance theory
End of SIG
Ivan Ghio
Human agency in semi-structured interviews: discursive
construals of public responsibility and personal concerns emerging from the
private discourse on HIV post 1996.
Cristiana Gregoriou
The Transnational Human Trafficking Victim in The Cellar: A critical and stylistic analysis of
the complexity of victim representation in crime fiction
Isabelle van der Bom, Alice Bell, Lyle Skains and Astrid Ensslin
Examining hyperlinks in digital
fiction: a cognitive, empirical approach
Helen Ringrow
“I can feel myself being squeezed, and stretched, moulded and grown, and expanded in my capacity to love loudly and
profoundly”: language, religion, and motherhood online
16.00 – 16.30 Tea/coffee break
16:30 – 17:30 Parallel Sessions
G03 112 103 111 G11 Chair: Elisabetta Zurru Chair: Ivan Ghio Chair: Cristiana Gregoriou Chair: Isabelle van der Bom Chair: Helen Ringrow
Kieran O'Halloran
Film, Poetry, Style: a Pedagogy
Martine van Driel
Evaluating News Events: News Values in Reader Responses to
News Texts
Wolfgang Teubert
Discourse (studies) in the absence of methodology
Rumiko Oyama-Mercer
Reading as Sign-Making: A Trans-Modal Approach to Literary Texts
Maria-Eirini Panagiotidou
Figurative Language and Iconicity in Ekphrastic Poetry
Sam Browse
Barack Obama and the resonant feedback crescendo: The critical cognitive stylistics of oratorical
rock’n’roll
Steve Buckledee
Invented languages in fiction: analysis of Sandra Newman’s
novel The Country of Ice Cream Star (2015)
Marianne Cronin
‘Ponies eat glitter for breakfast’ versus ‘I am the future’: Exploring
gender stereotypes in the text printed on children’s clothing
using 500 samples from the UK high street
Marina Lambrou
Metalepsis, counterfactuality and being led up the “forked” garden
path
Matthew Voice and Sara Whiteley
‘Y’all don’t want to hear me, you just want to dance’: Multimodal
Applications for Musical Stylistics in the Music Video for Outkast’s
‘Hey Ya’
17:40 – 19:00 G03 POETRY/FICTION READING. Liz Berry and Luke Kennard. Introduced by Michael Toolan. Followed by book signing by the authors in the AWB foyer.
DAY 3: FRIDAY 27th JULY
9:00 –10:00 G03 PLENARY 4. Rocio Montoro: The language of popular fiction: a corpus stylistics approach. Introduced by Jai Mackenzie
10:00 – 11:00 Parallel Sessions
G03 112 103 111 G11 Chair: Sam Browse Chair: Emily Trivette Chair: Lettie Dorst Chair: Matt Collins
Chairs:
Ulrike Tabbert & Ilse Ras Dan McIntyre and Lesley Jeffries
The devil has all the best tunes:
investigating the lexical phenomena surrounding Brexit
Beau Pihlaja
Style, Culture, and Power in Digitally Mediated Intercultural
Rhetorical Encounters
Metaphor SIG Session 1 of 2
Tom Barney
Voice-print: Typography and the Sound Patterns of Poetry
Crime SIG Session 1/3
Lettie Dorst
Translating Metaphor across Disciplines, Genres, Modalities
Ulrike Tabbert
Using Stylistics in forensic authorship
identification/attribution Zoe Moores, Dan McIntyre
Hazel Price and John Vice
Subtitling Parliament
Maya Sfeir
Towards an Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Approach for
Analyzing Dramatic Discourse
Ilaria Rizzato
Shakespeare’s Metaphorical Swarms: Text Functions and Implications for Translation
J H Crone
‘Rhythmic signatures’: rhythm in free verse and prose
reconsidered
Patricia Canning
When two worlds collude: Institutional and narrative style in witness statements following
the Hillsborough Football Stadium Disaster.
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break 11:30 – 13:00 Parallel Sessions
G03 112 103 111 G11 Chair: Dan McIntyre Chair: Maya Sfeir Chair: Lettie Dorst Chair: Tom Barney Chairs:
Ulrike Tabbert & Ilse Ras Brian Walker
The beginning of ‘the Age of
Austerity’: A critical stylistics analysis of Cameron’s 2009 spring conference speech.
Soichiro Oku
A corpus-based approach to ‘an unreliable narrator’ : The case of
“The Remains of the Day”
Metaphor SIG Session 2/2
Funke Oni
Restructuring of Nigeria: An Appraisal Analysis of Selected
Newspapers’ Headlines
Crime SIG Session 2/3 Andrea Mayr
Funk, favela youth and cultural
resistance in Rio de Janeiro
Ariana Ciamaricone
Conceptualizing Notions of Rape and the Implications on Early
Modern England in Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece
Guðrún Línberg Guðjónsdóttir
“It didn’t feel like I was reading, it was like the story was whispered to me” - Free indirect thought and
related stylistic features in Kaldaljós
Ayano Takeuchi
Gender is rendered in “crying”: A quantitative analysis on
descriptions of crying in the poems of The Tale of Genji
Gudrun Reijnierse and Aletta Dorst
Foregrounding vs. deliberateness:
competing or complementary approaches to metaphor?
Tess Lankhuizen
Frames or Panels: Medium and Narrative Engagement in Film
and Comics
Ilse Ras
The Representations of Child Victims of Human Trafficking in British Newspapers information
on submission
Peter Richardson, Stephen Pihlaja, Miori Nagashima, Masako
Wada and Makoto Watanabe
Blasphemy and dialogue: applying Positioning Theory to pre-discussion essays and face-
to-face interaction on the topic of Ahok’s trial
Robert Stock
Tracking tweets: analysing immediate, spontaneous and
unsolicited cognitive responses
Chandrasekaran Subramaniam
Multi-disciplined Complex Poetic
Metaphor Translation of Bharathiar Patriotic Tamil Poems
end of SIG
Lisa Nahajec
Finding a positive in a negative: a pragmatic analysis of the words and music of 10cc’s ‘I’m not in
love’ by Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman
Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson and Anna Sigríður Guðfinnsdóttir
Referring to fictional characters: a case study from Bettý (2003)
13:00 – 14:00 Buffet Lunch 14:00 – 16.00 Parallel Sessions
G03 112 103 111 G11 Chair: Brian Walker Chair:
Eva Gomez-Jimenez Chair: Ariana Ciamaricone
Chair: Lisa Nahajec Chairs
Ulrike Tabbert & Ilse Ras Anna Cermakova and Michaela
Mahlberg
Women, men, girls and boys in Victorian children’s literature
Graphology SIG Marija Milojkovic
Corpus-derived subtext and prospection in novel writing
Alexandra Whiting
Dissociative Identity Disorder in Fight Club: A case study of the “Car Accident” or “Near-Life
Experience” Scene
Crime SIG Session 3/3
Linda Pilliere
The Voice of Typography
Simon Statham
“All of a sudden he asks for a meeting, to discuss shit we
already covered”: a multimodal stylistic analysis of ‘rats’ and their
targets in The Sopranos. Michaela Mahlberg and Viola
Wiegand
Fictional speech and authentic spoken language
Hugh Escott
‘The Conflict of the End’: Punctuation, Meaning-making
and Collaboration in a Child-Led Creative Writing Workshop
Ian Cushing
Text world theory in the secondary school classroom
Louise Nuttall
Enacted mind style and the experience of war in Atonement
John Douthwaite
Positioning in a detective film
End of SIG
Lenka Farova, Anna Cermakova and Michaela Mahlberg
Gender (im)balance in the
Wonderland: Translating the Queen of Hearts
Yuan Tian
The Effect of Multimodality on Enhancing Literature in the Case
of an Autistic Mind Style
Odette Vassallo
The challenges of evaluating literary text engagement with
young bilingual learners
Chloe Harrison
Cinematic free indirect discourse in Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale
Rukmini Bhaya Nair
Postcolonial Method and Textual Style in Contemporary Indian
English Fiction
Tomoji Tabata
Dickens in Vector Space: Word Embeddings and Semantic
Profiling of Style
Eva M. Gomez-Jimenez
Graphology in Stylistics: A state-of-the-art review
End of SIG
Clara Neary
“Please could you stop the noise”: the grammar of multimodal
meaning-making in Radiohead’s “Paranoid Android”
Bernardo Silva
Consciousness representation in John Dos Passos’ U.S.A
Roberta Piazza and Saeedeh Taheri
Through the Nocturnal Animal's
eye or a Text World Theory approach to narrative film
analysis
16.00 – 16.30 Tea/coffee break
16:30 – 17:30 G03 Plenary 5. Jeannette Littlemore: Which metaphors are embodied? By whom? And when? Variation in the experience of metaphor.
Introduced by Ruby Rennie Panter
DAY 4: SATURDAY 28th JULY
9:00 – 10:00 G03 Plenary 6. Joe Bray: Modernising Austen: questions of value. Introduced by Linda Pillière
10:00 – 11:00 Parallel Sessions
G03 112 103 111 G11 Chair: Tomoji Tabata Chair: Yuan Tian
Chair: Clara Neary Chair: Chloe Harrison Chair: Louise Nuttall
Haruko Sera
A corpus-stylistic approach to Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant: Does the story arouse
emotion in the reader?
Jean Boase-Beier
Translation comparison as stylistic method
Jessica Mason
‘I assume you’ve read…’: Intertextuality, Booktalk and
Identity
Berkan Ulu
From ‘Mars’ to ‘War:’ Stylistic Shift in Leon Gellert’s Songs of a
Campaign
Peter Stockwell
In defence of introspection
Masayuki Teranishi and Masako Nasu
Literature in the EFL classroom: A comparative analysis of plural texts of Jane Austen and Kazuo
Ishiguro
Lorenzo Mastropierro
Key clusters and translator style: A corpus investigation
Ernestine Lahey
The making of Al Purdy
Aili Lundmark
Two Channels, One Style? The case of Elsa Beskow, Sweden's
“grand old lady” of picture books
Lesley Jeffries
Poetry, critical stylistics and a theory of textual meaning
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break 11:30 – 13:00 Parallel Sessions
G03 112 103 111 G11 Chair: Haruko Sera Chair: Jean Boase-Beier Chair: Jessica Mason Chair: Marina Lambrou Chair: Lieven Vandelanotte
Rod Hermeston
Developing a Critical Stylistics of Disability
Hiroko Furukawa
Translating Neuter Characters into Japanese: A Gender Change
in the Translations of ‘Folie a Deux’
Tamas Varga
The interaction between music and language in songs with lyrics
Reiko Ikeo
The use of the progressive aspect in present-tense narrative
Violeta Sotirova
Subjectivity and Impersonality in Modernist Literature
Andrea Macrae
Social deixis delimited
Raphael Marco Oliveira Carneiro
'Life of Pi' and 'The Handmaid’s Tale' in Brazilian Portuguese: an exploratory study on style and
retranslation from a translational corpus stylistics perspective
Alice Haines
The cognitive poetics of discourse humour
Yu Zhu
Empathy and point of view in literature: a stylistic analysis of ‘clash moments’ in Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Marcello Giovanelli
(Re)-construing the horrors of the trench: Siegfried Sassoon,
creativity and context
Stephen James Coffey
Attempting to objectify lexical (in)formality with the aid of style
labels in English dictionaries: a case study with reference to the
lexis of newspaper headlines
Yasir Al-Jumaili
Keats’s Medical Metaphors of Negative Mental States
Nigel McLoughlin
Temporal Resonance: A cognitive poetic analysis of the treatment of time and resonant qualities in
‘Arioso Dolente’ by Anne Stevenson
Weishan Liang
A Contrastive Analysis of Reports on North Korea’s Missile
Programme: The New York Times and China Daily
Julia Vaeßen and Sven Strasen
Cultural Models and Literary Characters: A Cognitive Cultural
Theory of Character Construction
13:00 – 14:00 Buffet Lunch 14:00 – 16.00 Parallel Sessions
G03 112 103 111 Chair: Stephen Coffey Chair: Raphael Marco Oliveira
Carneiro
Chair: Nigel McLoughlin Chair: Yu Zhu
Tatyana Karpenko-Seccombe
Gambling with the future: the gambling vocabulary in the
political discourse of parliamentary Brexit debates
Iryna Tryshchenko
Gender Dimension of Modern Dystopia
Huiming Li and Qiuhong Xu
Text-worlds and Point of View
Lieven Vandelanotte
‘Shunting the same idea back and forth?’ Reappraising simile
across text and image
Aiko Saito
Is Polonius a “tedious old fool” as Hamlet says?: Stylistic studies on
his speech styles
Iris Gemeinboeck
Sexual subjects – agency, empowerment and style in
popular romance fiction
Davide Castiglione
Poetic difficulty and visual abstraction: an empirical study
Daria Tunca
Modality and the Construction of History in Caryl Phillips's "Made
in Wales" Jonathan Fitchett
Talk to Text: the stylistics of
devised theatre
Xia Wu and Baofeng Li
An Analysis of Female Gothic Style in The Joy Luck Club
Alison Gibbons
Text World Theory, Ontology, and the Challenge of ‘Reality’ as
“more than we can imagine”
Matt Davies
“What’s a computer?”: Wmatrix and the distilled lyrical art of
Mark E Smith and The Fall
Sara Ingham
Text and cognition: the role of surface features in the
comprehension of character.
Carolina Fernandez-Quintanilla
Would that count as empathy? An empirical stylistic approach
to narrative empathy
Naoki Hirayama
Complex Sentences in the Paston Letters
Emily R. Anderson
Sensemaking in the Age of Trump
16.00 – 16:15 Tea/coffee break
16:15 – 17:30 Closing Ceremony followed by PALA Annual General Meeting
19:30 Conference Dinner at Hornton Grange with live music from the Elliot Drew Jazz Quartet
DAY 5: SUNDAY 29th JULY
Conference Excursion to Shakespeare’s Stratford, including visits to the Shakespeare sites, and Royal Shakespeare Theatre backstage tour.
Departs Chamberlain Hall at 9:30 a.m., arrives back at 7:30 pm. NB Lunch not provided, but we hope to reserve some tables at The Black Swan (aka Dirty Duck).