University of Cagliari
Language in Place: Stylistic Perspectives on Landscape, Place and Environment
CONFERENCE AND BOOK LAUNCH
LANGUAGE IN PLACE
STYLISTIC PERSPECTIVES ON LANDSCAPE, PLACE AND ENVIRONMENT
Editors: Daniela Francesca Virdis, Elisabetta Zurru and Ernestine Lahey
“Linguistic Approaches to Literature” Volume 37, Series Editors: Sonia Zyngier and Joanna Gavins
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021
https://benjamins.com/catalog/lal.37
The contributions in this collection offer a wide range of stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment, by focusing on a variety of text-types ranging from poetry, the Bible, fictional and non-fictional prose, to newspaper articles, condo names, online texts and exhibitions. Employing both established and cutting-edge methodologies from, among others, corpus linguistics, metaphor studies, Text World Theory and ecostylistics, the eleven chapters in the volume provide an overview of how landscape, place and environment are encoded and can be investigated in literary and non-literary discourse. The studies collected here stand as evidence of the possibility of, and the need for, a “stylistics of landscape”, which emphasises how represented spaces are made manifest linguistically; a “stylistics of place”, which focuses on the discursive and affective qualities of those represented spaces; and a “stylistics of environment”, which reiterates the urgency for environmentally-responsible humanities, able to support a change in the anthropocentric narrative which poses humans as the most important variable in the human-animal and human-environment relationships.
CONFERENCE AND BOOK LAUNCH PROGRAMME
Under the auspices of John Benjamins Publishing Company, Poetics And Linguistics Association (PALA), Italian Association of English Studies (AIA), Interuniversity Research Centre for Argumentation, Pragmatics and Stylistics (ARGO) and the Department of Humanities, Languages and Heritage of the University of Cagliari
The event will be held on MS Teams.
All those interested are most welcome to join us at https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ae2ba3840583a46ccaa684d31ebda3900%40thread.tacv2/1622135695825?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%226bfa74cc-fe34-4d57-97d3-97fd6e0edee1%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22ac8f04c0-d8eb-4560-b46f-665cc3311a38%22%7d. No registration required.
DAY 1: THURSDAY 16th SEPTEMBER 2021
(All times are in Rome time / CEST)
SESSION 1
Chair: Daniela Francesca Virdis
14.30 – 15.00
Sonia Zyngier and Joanna Gavins
Introduction to the conference and book launch
15.00 – 15.30
Andrew Goatly
Thematic adverbial adjuncts of place and direction and their relationship to conceptual metaphor in A.E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad
15.30 – 15.45
BREAK
SESSION 2
Chair: Elisabetta Zurru
15.45 – 16.15
Ernestine Lahey
Death by nature in two poems by Alden Nowlan
16.15 – 16.45
Daniela Francesca Virdis
“She enjoys being stroked”, “They are affectionate, lively and interactive boys”: An ecostylistic scrutiny of animal agency and alternative discourse in Battersea Dogs & Cats Home website
16.45 – 17.15
Karin Christina Ryding
The Arabic of Dune: Language and landscape
DAY 2: FRIDAY 17th SEPTEMBER 2021
(All times are in Rome time / CEST)
SESSION 3
Chair: Ernestine Lahey
10.00 – 10.30
Peter K. W. Tan
Naming as styling: Inauthenticity in building names in Singapore
10.30 – 11.00
Karolien Vermeulen
Urban metaphors: Conceptual and literary depictions of cities in the Bible
11.00 – 11.15
BREAK
SESSION 4
Chair: Eleonora Fois
11.15 – 11.45
Elisabetta Zurru
“Your planet needs you”: An ecostylistic analysis of an ecology-oriented interactive exhibition
11.45 – 12.15
Linda Pillière
London past and present: The Museum of London’s multi-faceted presentation of the city
12.15 – 12.30
Conclusions
Scientific committee
Sonia Zyngier
Joanna Gavins
Daniela Francesca Virdis
Elisabetta Zurru
Ernestine Lahey
Esther Roth
Organising committee
Eleonora Fois