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Poetics And Linguistics Association
The Poetics and Linguistics Association is an international academic association which exists to promote the research, teaching and learning in the study of linguistic style and the language of literature. The Poetics and Linguistics Association is usually known by the acronym PALA. The main activities of PALA are the publication of the journal ''Language and Literature'', and an annual conference. History PALA was founded in 1980 by a group of scholars who were interested in the language of literature, and who did not feel that the forums that were available to them at the time were adequate for productive academic discussion. Among the founding, or early, members were Ron Carter, Roger Fowler, Geoffrey Leech, Michael Short, Katie Wales, and Peter Verdonk. To celebrate its Silver Jubilee in 2005, PALA held a poll of its members to award a prize to ‘the most influential book in stylistics’ to be published in its 25-year history. The prize was awarded to Style in Fiction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literature
Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include oral literature, much of which has been transcribed. Literature is a method of recording, preserving, and transmitting knowledge and entertainment, and can also have a social, psychological, spiritual, or political role. Literature, as an art form, can also include works in various non-fiction genres, such as biography, diaries, memoir, letters, and the essay. Within its broad definition, literature includes non-fictional books, articles or other printed information on a particular subject.''OED'' Etymologically, the term derives from Latin ''literatura/litteratura'' "learning, a writing, grammar," originally "writing formed with letters," from ''litera/littera'' "letter". In spite of this, the term has also been applied to spoken or s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poetics
Poetics is the theory of structure, form, and discourse within literature, and, in particular, within poetry. History The term ''poetics'' derives from the Ancient Greek ποιητικός ''poietikos'' "pertaining to poetry"; also "creative" and "productive". In the Western world, the development and evolution of poetics featured three artistic movements concerned with poetical composition: (i) the formalist, (2) the objectivist, and (iii) the Aristotelian. (see the '' Poetics''). Aristotle's ''Poetics'' is the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. The work was lost to the Western world for a long time. It was available in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance only through a Latin translation of an Arabic commentary written by Averroes and translated by Hermannus Alemannus in 1256. The accurate Greek-Latin translation made by William of Moerbeke in 1278 was virtually ignored. The Arabic translation departed widely in vocabulary from the original ''P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Language And Literature
''Language and Literature'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes articles in the field of stylistics. The journal's editor is Dan McIntyre (University of Huddersfield). It has been published since 1992, first by Longman and then by SAGE Publications in association with the Poetics and Linguistics Association. Scope ''Language and Literature'' covers the latest developments in the theory and practice of stylistics, the linguistic analysis of style in language (particularly in literary texts). It has a broad coverage and offers easy access to cutting edge research in the field. Abstracting and indexing ''Language and Literature'' is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases, SCOPUS, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the ''Journal Citation Reports'', its 2018 impact factor is 0.692, ranking it 114 out of 184 journals in the category ‘Linguistics’. Editorial team * Dan McIntyre (editor) * RocÃo Montoro (assistant editor) * Violeta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Carter (linguist)
Ronald Allan Carter (4 May 1947 – 12 September 2018) was a British linguist. A native of Leeds, Carter studied English, Russian, and German, as well as comparative literature, at University of Birmingham. He began teaching at the University of Nottingham after completing a doctorate in 1979. Carter was a founding member of the Poetics and Linguistics Association The Poetics and Linguistics Association is an international academic association which exists to promote the research, teaching and learning in the study of linguistic style and the language of literature. The Poetics and Linguistics Association i ..., and later led the group as chairman. He was elected fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1995, and granted an equivalent honor by the Academy of Social Sciences in 2002. In 2009, Carter was named a Member of the Order of the British Empire. Carter died on 12 September 2018 at the age of 71. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Carter, Ronald 1947 births 2018 deaths 20th- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Fowler
Roger Fowler (1938–1999) was a world-renowned and long-serving British Linguist, and was professor of English and Linguistics at the University of East Anglia. He is well known for his works in stylistics. Together with Bob Hodge, Gunther Kress and Tony Trew, he authored the influential book ''Language and Control'', which gave rise to the discipline of critical linguistics. He was educated at University College, London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget =  .... His Works * ''An Introduction to Transformational Syntax'' * ''Understanding Language: an Introduction to Linguistics'' * ''Dictionary Of Modern Critical Terms'' * ''Linguistic Criticism'' * ''The Routledge Dictionary Of Literary Terms'' (by Peter Childs and Roger Fowler) * ''Dictionary of Modern Critical Term ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Leech
Geoffrey Neil Leech FBA (16 January 1936 – 19 August 2014) was a specialist in English language and linguistics. He was the author, co-author, or editor of over 30 books and over 120 published papers. His main academic interests were English grammar, corpus linguistics, stylistics, pragmatics, and semantics. Life and career Leech was born in Gloucester, England on 16 January 1936. He was educated at Tewkesbury Grammar School, Gloucestershire, and at University College London (UCL), where he was awarded a BA (1959) and PhD (1968). He began his teaching career at UCL, where he was influenced by Randolph Quirk and Michael Halliday as senior colleagues. He spent 1964-5 as a Harkness Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA. In 1969 Leech moved to Lancaster University, UK, where he was Professor of English Linguistics from 1974 to 2001. In 2002 he became Emeritus Professor in the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University. He w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Short (linguist)
Michael Henry 'Mick' Short (born 1945) is a British linguist. He is currently an honorary professor at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of Lancaster University, United Kingdom. His research focuses on applied linguistics with a special focus on stylistics. Career In 1979 he founded the Poetics and Linguistics Association where he and acted as the treasurer from 1979 to 1982, and later served on the committee. The association started a journal, ''Parlance'', at his instigation, and it was produced at Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University between 1988 and 1991. In 1985, Short co-founded the journal ''Language and Literature''. In 2006 he organised the Style in Fiction Symposium in Lancaster. Awards In 2000 Short was awarded with the National Teaching Fellowship. In 2005 Short and Geoffrey Leech's book ''Style in Fiction'' was awarded the PALA 25th anniversary Book Prize as the most influential book in the field of styli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katie Wales
Katie is an English feminine name. It is a form Katherine, Kate, Caitlin, Kathleen, Katey and their related forms. It is frequently used on its own. People Sports *Katie Boulter (born 1996), British tennis player *Katie Clark (born 1994), British synchronized swimmer * Katie Hill (born 1984), Australian wheelchair basketball player * Katie Hnida (born 1981), American NCAA football player *Katie Hoff (born 1989), American Olympic swimmer * Katie Ledecky (born 1997), American swimmer * Katie Levick (born 1991), English cricketer * Katie Sowers (born 1986), American football coach *Katie Swan (born 1999), British tennis player *Katie Taylor, Irish boxer and footballer, five-time world boxing and 2012 Olympic champion *Katie Thorlakson (born 1985), Canadian soccer player Television and film * Katie Brown (TV personality) (born 1963), American television show host * Katie Couric (born 1957), American journalist * Katie Cassidy (born 1986), American singer and actress * Katie Feathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mick Short
Michael Henry 'Mick' Short (born 1945) is a British linguist. He is currently an honorary professor at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of Lancaster University, United Kingdom. His research focuses on applied linguistics with a special focus on stylistics. Career In 1979 he founded the Poetics and Linguistics Association where he and acted as the treasurer from 1979 to 1982, and later served on the committee. The association started a journal, ''Parlance'', at his instigation, and it was produced at Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University between 1988 and 1991. In 1985, Short co-founded the journal '' Language and Literature''. In 2006 he organised the Style in Fiction Symposium in Lancaster. Awards In 2000 Short was awarded with the National Teaching Fellowship. In 2005 Short and Geoffrey Leech's book ''Style in Fiction'' was awarded the PALA 25th anniversary Book Prize as the most influential book in the field of stylistic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willie Van Peer
Willie van Peer is professor emeritus in the Faculty of Languages and Literature at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany. He is a linguist, literary scholar, and one of the founders of the empirical study of literature. Van Peer has published extensively in his main areas of research: foregrounding, narratology, literary evaluation, literary theory and emotion in literature. Van Peer was Vice President of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (IAEA, 1996–1998), Chair of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA, 2000–2003) and President of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL, 2004-2006). He was (co-)editor of the series Linguistic Approaches tLiterature(2000–2010) and founding editor of '' Scientific Study of Literature'' (2011). ''Directions in Empirical Literary Studies'' was published in his honour in 2008. Van Peer’s PhD and the book ''Stylistics and Psychology. Investigations of Foregrounding'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roosevelt Academy
University College Roosevelt (UCR), formerly known as Roosevelt Academy (RA), is a small, honors undergraduate liberal arts and science college located in Middelburg in the Netherlands and the sole university in Zeeland. It offers a residential setting, and is an international honors college of Utrecht University. It is named in honour of the Roosevelt family, which traces its ancestry to the province of Zeeland. History The Roosevelt Academy, as it was then called, was established in 2004 by Hans Adriaansens, its founding dean. Prof. Adriaansens first experienced the ground principles of the liberal arts education during his brief time as a visiting professor at Smith College, USA, in the 1980–1981 academic year. He started to develop the idea of a small scale and academically intensive undergraduate college in the Netherlands, which led Adriaansens to the foundation of University College Utrecht in 1998, the first liberal arts college in the country. After the success of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diogenes (journal)
''Diogenes'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers four times a year in the field of philosophy and the humanities. The journal's editors are Maurice Aymard (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) and Luca Maria Scarantino (IULM). It has been in publication since 1953 and is currently published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies (CIPSH), with the support of UNESCO. Scope ''Diogenes'' aims to offer a publication outlet for scientific information and intellectual synthesis. The journal publishes work from all fields of philosophical, humanistic and social studies from archaeology to education. ''Diogenes'' is transdisciplinary in scope, publishing pieces by scholars across a range of disciplines. Abstracting and indexing ''Diogenes'' is abstracted and indexed in the following databases: :* Academic Premier :* Arts & Humanities Citation Index :* Current Contents: Arts & Humanities :* Hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
