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The International
Association for
Dialogue Analysis and
the Literary Communication Project of Åbo Akademi
University
invite
papers for a Conference on
DIALOGUE ANALYSIS :
LITERATURE
AS DIALOGUE
The 14th Conference of the
International
Association for Dialogue Analysis
to be
held in Turku, Finland
from April 2nd –
4th , 2012
PLEASE
NOTE THE EXTENDED DEADLINE: November 30th,
2011.
The 14th
Conference of The International Association for Dialogue Analysis will
be
hosted by the Literary Communication Project of Åbo Akademi
University from
April 2nd
to 4th,
2012.
Proposals
are
invited for papers on all aspects of Dialogue Analysis. In addition,
the
Conference will have a thematic focus on the issue of Literature as
Dialogue.
In other words, proposals are also invited for papers particularly
examining the
extent to which the writing, reading and performance of so-called
literary
texts can be seen as processes involving an element of dialogical
interchange
between those who write them and those who in one way or another use
them.
It is
expected that
this thematic focus will bring together linguists, literary scholars,
and
scholars interested in human communication of every kind, including the
literary.
Part of the background is the increasing emphasis among linguists on
the
dialogicality of all language use. Equally, the Conference relates to
moves by literary
critics and theoreticians towards an ethics of writing and reception
which sees
literary community-making as a process which involves a comparing of
notes from
what may be widely differing points of view.
Scholars
interested
in the literature-as-dialogue focus are invited to propose papers
dealing not
only with the implications of the dialogical perspective on literature
for
linguistic, literary or communicational theory, but with the detailed
analysis
of particular instances of literary dialogicality. Some of the more
theoretical
papers could well re-examine, and perhaps modify the account put
forward in
Bakhtin’s The
Dialogic Imagination.
Some of the analytical papers could deal with possible correlations
between a
particular literary text’s degree or kind of dialogicality
and the impression
readers are likely to form of its quality and value. Other topics could
relate
to similarities or differences between the dialogicality which takes
place
among characters as represented by a writer within the world of the
text and that
same writer’s own dialogicality vis à vis
the writing’s addressees. No less appropriate would be topics
of a
meta-scholarly or pedagogical nature. Could it be, for instance, that
research
into the dialogicality of widely admired literary texts, by feeding
into
programmes of public education, will in the long run help to foster
humane and
constructive modes of address in the world at large?
Invited
plenary
papers will be delivered by Professor Dame Gillian Beer (Cambridge University),
Professor Leona Toker
(Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Professor Pamela M. King (University
of Bristol)
and Professor Franz Hundsnurscher (Westphalian Wilhelm
University
of Münster).
Proposals
(max. 300
words) for papers on both Dialogue Analysis in general and Literature
as
Dialogue in particular should be submitted as e-mail attachments to
Adam Borch
(english(at)abo.fi), before November
30th, 2011. Requests
for practical information about registration,
travel and accommodation should be directed to the Conference
Secretary, Inna
Lindgren (english(at)abo.fi).
Roger
D.
Sell (rsell(at)abo.fi)
H.W.
Donner Research Professor of Literary
Communication
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