event: ESSE 9 conference - Seminar 20: Shakespeare and Discourse Stylistics.

The next ESSE conference will be held at the
University of Aarhus Denmark from 22 to 26 August
2008. We invite papers for seminar 20 on Shakespeare and Discourse=
Stylistics

From copia to stylistic reticence, Shakespeare's
playtexts map out the extreme limits and
impasse of verbal communication. The present
seminar aims at assessing and highlighting the
discourse strategies and structures at stake in
conversational exchange and interaction in the
very process of capturing the world of human
understanding and relationships. Such a process
involves the difficulty, sometimes the
impossibility, and the exhilaration of mediating
that world through language. Shakespeare's
playtexts should be envisaged as being rooted in
a cultural and rhetorical context in which
meaning (and the difficulties of conveying
meaning) is a collaborative construction,
involving author, text, culture, and reader.
Papers are welcome on the range of Shakespeare's
negotiations with the problematics of the
production of meaning. Areas of exploration
include textual stylistics, semantics, pragmatics, and semiotics.

Contact details for Panel 20:
Dr. Mireille Ravassat (University of Valenciennes, France)
E-mail: mireilleravassat@yahoo.fr

Dr. Lene Petersen (University of the West of England, Bristol, UK)
E-mail: Lene.Petersen@uwe.ac.uk

Those wishing to participate in the Conference
are invited to submit 200-word abstracts of their
proposed papers directly to both convenors of the
seminar in question before 1 March 2008. The
convenors will let the proponents know whether
their proposals have been accepted no later than 21 March 2008.

For more details, see the conference website:
http://www.esse2008.dk/cfp_seminars.html