A symposium at the interface of language and literature
The talks addressed the concept of character in the framework of cognitive poetics, Dickens’s characters in the context of popular culture, corpus methods and the tool CLiC for literary texts, psycholinguistic methods to investigate the reading process and the psychological reality of characters, Dickens and book history, and the reading experience in the 19th century.
Speakers
Introduction to the Symposium by:
Professor Brean Hammond
Professor of Modern English Literature
University of Nottingham
Dr Kathy Conklin
Lecturer in Psycholinguistics
University of Nottingham
Professor Josephine Guy
Professor of Modern English Literature
University of Nottingham
Professor Juliet John
Professor in Victorian Literature
Royal Holloway University of London
Dr Michaela Mahlberg
Associate Professor in English
Language and Applied Linguistics
University of Nottingham
Dr Simon Preston
RCUK Research Fellow
School of Mathematical Sciences
University of Nottingham
Dr Catherine Smith
Technical Officer, Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing
Univeristy of Birmingham
Professor Peter Stockwell
Professor of Literary Linguistics
University of Nottingham
Programme
9.30 Registration
9.40 Brean Hammond: Introduction to Dickens and Characterization
10.00 Peter Stockwell: "Character and Caricature: Cognition and creativity"
10.50 Juliet John: "Characterising Popularity: Melodrama, Film and Externalised Aesthetics"
11.40 Coffee
12.00 Michaela Mahlberg & Catherine Smith: "CLiC Dickens - studying character with the help of a corpus tool
12.50 Lunch
1.30 Simon Preston & Michaela Mahlberg: "The suspended quotation from a statistical point of view"
2.20 Kathy Conklin: "The eyes as a window to understanding Dickens"
3.10 Coffee
3.40 Josephine Guy: Oliver Twist and Book History: Reading Character in 'Original' Print Contexts
4.30 Round-up and conclusion
5.00 Close
A PDF version of this programme of events is available to download.