A conference on Relevance Theory and Literature will be held at the
University of Huddersfield on September the 12th and 13th 2002. The venue
for the conference is Storthes Hall Park, a countryside site of the
university 4 miles from the centre of Huddersfield. If you would like to
attend the conference, please complete and return the registration form
below the following programme.
Relevance Theory and Literature
Storthes Hall, Huddersfield University 2002
Wednesday September 11th
Registration from 4pm, Arboretum Building, Storthes Hall.
7pm DINNER
Thursday September 12th
Chair: Anne Furlong
9.00 Christoph Unger
Global Coherence, Narrative Structure, and
Expectations of Relevance
9.45 David Keeble, Middlesex University
Negation, Litotes and Meiosis in Carlyle's
Chartism
10.30 COFFEE
Chair Christoph Unger
11.00 William Downes, University of East Anglia
Memes, Evolution and Epidemiology
11.45 Barbara MacMahon, Huddersfield University
Metarepresentation in Prose Fiction
12.30 LUNCH
Chair: John Constable
1.30 Kyoko Arai, Gakushuin University
Ellipsis and Literature
2.15 Anne Furlong, University of Prince Edward Island
The Iron Butterfly: Relevance Stylistics and Literature
3.00 TEA
Chair: Jean Boase-Beier
3.30 Juhani Rudanko, University of Tampere
On Interpreting Some Epithets in Shakespeare
4.15 Adrian Pilkington, British Institute, London University
Ad Hoc Concepts in Literary Texts
7.00 DINNER
Friday September 13th
Chair: Barbara MacMahon
9.00 Maria Angeles Ruiz Moneva, Zaragoza University
Some Proposals to Cope with Forms of Irony
typically found in literary texts from a relevance perspective
9.45 Tony Zeng, Guangdong Commercial University
Psycho-cognition Bases of Irony Understanding: an Empirical
Study
10.30 COFFEE
Chair: William Downes
11.00 John Constable, Cambridge University
Disruption Theory and Rhetorical Devices: an
alternative use of relevance theory in literary analysis
11.45 Nigel Fabb, Strathclyde University
How does Literary Form hold of a Literary
Text?
12.30 LUNCH
Chair: Adrian Pilkington
1.30 Pan Li, Zhongshan University
The Notion of Context in Relevance Theory
and its Application in the Translation of Irony
2.15 Jean Boase-Beier, University of East Anglia
Saying What Someone Else Meant: Style, Relevance and
Translation
3.00 TEA
The fee for the standard conference package is £100 per person. This
includes accommodation overnight on Wednesday September 11th and Thursday
September 12th, breakfasts, lunches and evening meals, tea and coffee; meals
start with an evening meal on Wednesday and finish with lunch on Friday.
People who wish to stay over on the night of Friday September 13th may do so
for the extra cost of £15, or £19.50 including continental breakfast. Those
who wish to stay one night only and attend just one day of the conference
should pay £50.
REGISTRATION FORM
Name:
Institution:
Address:
Telephone:
Email:
I wish to register for (delete as necessary):
1. The standard conference package at £100
2. Accommodation for one night and attendance for one
day at £50 (please give dates)
3. Overnight accommodation for Friday September 13th
at £19.50 with continental breakfast
at £15 without breakfast
Please indicate any special dietary requirements here.
Return by email to b.macmahon@hud.ac.uk
or by mail to Barbara MacMahon,
English Division,
West Building,
University of Huddersfield,
Queensgate,
Huddersfield,
HD1 3DH.
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