CFP: Negation: form, figure of speech, conceptualization (05/31/04; 10/8/04-
10/09/04)
Interdisciplinary international conference
hosted by the Groupe de Recherches Anglo-Americaines de Tours,
Tours, France
Literature and Linguistics international conference
Negation: form, figure of speech, conceptualization
October 8-9, 2004
Keynote speakers:
Judith Roof, Michigan State University
Eve Sweetser, University of California, Berkeley
CALL FOR PAPERS
The conference seeks to promote interaction among academics interested in the
concept of negation. The conference theme focuses on all aspects of negation
in Anglo-Saxon literature, English linguistics, stylistics, discourse
analysis, aesthetics and poetics. Linguistic approaches to literature or
literary corpus-based linguistic analyses would be most welcome. All
theoretical approaches are invited. Abstracts are solicited for twenty-minute
oral presentations. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
-LINGUISTICS, GRAMMAR, DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
*Negation can be encoded in the English language through various means. How
are these forms related and could they be viewed as forming a dynamic category?
*Is the negative form to be considered the prototypical linguistic encoding of
negation?
*What do negative forms reveal about the way the speaker conceptualizes
negation and, more broadly, about discourse strategies?
*Can negation be understood in terms of "energy flow" (Langacker), "force-
dynamics" (Talmy, Sweetser), "image schemas" (Johnson), barrier, resistance
and blockage?
*Could a common ground for cognitive and speaker-centred theories be found to
apprehend negation?
-LITERATURE, STYLISTICS, AESTHETICS, POETICS
*Negation implies other logical figures that define a particular relationship
between the speaker -the author, the narrator, the character- and language,
viz disapprobation, contestation, refutation, refusal, denial, retraction and
repudiation. How does it enable one to verbalize impossibility,
differentiation, otherness, emptiness, nothingness and absurdity?
*Negation and the expression of repression, negation and dissimulation,
negation and obliteration.
*Can negation make it possible for the speaker to express unspeakable thoughts
and feelings / to convey the unuttered?
*Among other topics, the negativity of some creative strategies and figures of
speech can be taken into consideration ¨De.g. irony, metaphor, metonymy.
A volume of selected papers will be published in 2005 (Tours: Presses
Universitaires Francois Rabelais)
Contributors are requested to send a title and a 250-word abstract to
Dr. Stephanie Bonnefille: stephanie.bonnefille@club-internet.fr (Linguistics)
or Dr. Sebastien Salbayre: sebastien.salbayre@univ-tours.fr (Literature)
by May 31, 2004.
Universite de Tours
UFR Lettres et Langues
Departement dĄŻAnglais
3, rue des Tanneurs
37041 Tours cedex 1
France
The venue of the conference will be the Department of English of the
University of Tours. There are frequent rail links between Paris and Tours.
Journey time is approximately 1 hour from Paris-Montparnasse railway station
and 1 hour and 30 minutes from Paris-Charles de Gaulle international airport.
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