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Exciting News! From today @ART_CogLit is part of @ACCELS1 - the Aachen Center for Cognitive and Empirical Literary Studies. Now @RWTHEnglish does not only boast a chair of Empirical and one of Cognitive Literary Studies, but its very own research center. @RWTH - the place to 1/2
Save the date for IACS 4 in Aachen! July 2nd-4th 2020! Plenaries include Jordan Zlatev, Morana Alac and Pamela Perniss. CfP opens in September 2019. Website is here: https://t.co/iz33w6iENz 🎉
Got a spare 10-15 minutes? Take part in this brand new research: ‘Talking About Texts - Exploring Reading and Identity’. Share your experiences and views by clicking this link, all answers completely anonymous! Please RT https://t.co/PWOwjaL7fd
Big things to happen here in Aachen. Watch this space for news on institutional changes. Plus, we'll have another fabulous series of lectures this winter. Details tba in a few weeks. We are very excited because so many great scholars have already accepted our invitation.
@SamBrowse opens by asserting “I think we can all agree the world at the moment is a terrible, terrible place”. His paper consider mind style & text-worlds in political punditry #ISSN2019
Big CFL announcement!
We've won a substantial research funding and over the next couple of months with be making 13 (yes thirteen!) new appointments in forensic linguistics and forensic speech science.
And there's lots more we can't tell you about just yet!
Come work with us!
@SvenStrasen @shorstkotte @caroline_kutsch Balint, Katalin et al. (2016), "Reconceptualizing Foregrounding. Identifying Response Strategies to Deviation in Absorbing Narratives." Scientific Study of Literature 6 (2): 176-207.
From March we will have a new team member. Ralf Schneider, formerly Prof. at Bielefeld, will join @RWTHEnglish @ARTCogLit. Ralf is one of the leading researchers in Cognitive Literary Studies and Reader-response in Germany and beyond. We are very excited to have him on our team.
CALL FOR PAPERS! Very excited to announce our one-day symposium – Character Building: Constructing Character and Identity in Real and Fictional Worlds – on 10th May 2019. Deadline for abstracts is 1st February https://t.co/KEgnJHOATt
In June 2019, the international conference "Powerful Literary Fiction Texts - A Stylistic, Empirical and Performance-based Approach" will take place in Brighton, UK. The deadline for submission is 15 December. https://t.co/Ws3Fl8A4bu #linguistics#EmpiricalAesthetics
Help, twitter followers:
I’m looking for very short stories (up to 1500 words), written in English, that you had particularly memorable reading experiences with. Can you recall any stories and recommend them to me? Feel free to share this and looking forward to your suggestions.