International Conference on Dialect and Literature 2016
Draft Programme
Venue: Humanities Research Institute, 34 Gell Street, S3 7QY
Thursday 14th July
9-10 Registration
10-11.30: Panel 1: Dialect and Place
Michelle Straw “Linguistic Landscape in Time and Space – Dialect Poetry from the Forest of Dean”
ReemBassiouney “Code choice, place and identity in Egypt: evidence from two novels”
IngridPaulsen ““You don’t know good Hinglish from an ‘ole in the ground”: The representation of British English dialects in American anecdotes as evidence for enregisterment processes of American English in the nineteenth century”
11.30-12 coffee
12-1.30:Panel 2: Dialect on Screen and Stage
NatalieBraberand Gary Needham “Performing Scottish identity on Screen: Language, Identity, and Humour in Scottish Television Comedy”
SusanReichelt “Diachronic dialect shifts as character exposition tools”
Taryn Hakala “Lancashire Dialect on the Page and Stage”
1.30-2.15 Buffet lunch
2.15-3.45: Panel 3: Teaching Dialect and Literature
Mercedes Durham “Teaching Dialect and/in Literature: Benefits and Difficulties of diverse audiences”
Alex Broadhead and Paul Cooper “The roles of indexicality and reader resistance in teaching dialect literature”
Jane Hodson “Presenting dialect literature to the public: reflecting on eight years of student engagement projects”
3.45-4.15 coffee
4.30-6.30:Panel 4: Literary Dialects
Catherine Wong “Linguistic strategies in dialect representations in Anglophone Chinese literary writings”
Martin Dubois“Dialect poetry and the places of William Barnes”
CallumWalker “(Why) Dialect Matters in Literature: A Look at the Cognitive Perception of Language Variation through the Lens of Translation”
Sylvia Adamson “Literature AS dialect”
6.30pm Wine reception in the HRI
7.30pm Conference dinner at local restaurant (£20 per head)
Friday 15th July
9.15-11.15: Panel 5: Dialect and Register
Jeremy Scott “Playing a Blinder: quotidian lives and discourses in the work of Barry Hines”
RaniaRefaat “Reversed gender roles and code choice in an Egyptian novel”
WendyLemmens “‘Those two are a couple of nigglers and no mistake’: The colloquial, dialectical registers in Hugo Claus’ novel Desire
Hugh Escott “Dialect representation in Yorkshire texts and socio-cultural accounts of literacy and orthography”
11.15-11.45 coffee
11.45-12.45: Plenary: Urszula Clark “Enregistering dialect representation in popular literature”
12.45-1.30 Buffet lunch
1.30-3.00Panel 6: Dialect and Identity
Rodney Hermeston “Tensions, Transformations and Local Identity: The Evolving Meanings of Nineteenth-Century Tyneside Dialect Songs”
PaulaPrescod“The role of Creole in French Caribbean literature”
Michelle Fiorito-Pfanz“Langston Hughes' Simple Stories: conjoining Digital Humanities, Linguistics and Literature”
3-4 Coffee with Concluding Discussion: Interrogating the ANDin Dialect and Literature