Deadline for proposals to PALA 2012
The final date for the submission of proposals for PALA 2012 is Friday 13th January.
2012 Membership Renewal
A new PALA membership year has begun. Please renew your membership online.
Middelburg School of Rhetoric report
An end-of-term report on the PALA Student Summer School, the Middelburg School of Rhetoric, has been published.
PALA Proceedings 2011 online
Papers from the PALA 2011 conference in Namibia are now freely available online from the PALA website. Each year all presenters of papers are invited to produce a written version of their papers for online publication.
Submission of Papers for PALA Proceedings 2011
PALA members who presented papers at the recent annual conference are invited to submit written papers for online publication by the deadline of November 1st 2011.
Parlance June 2011 edition published
Read the June 2011 edition of Parlance, the PALA newsletter
A Celebration in Style
A one-day symposium in honour of the work of Ron Carter and Katie Wales is being held at the University of Nottingham.
Middelburg School of Rhetoric
Registration is now open for the first PALA Summer School which will take place 15-19 August 2011.
2011 Membership Renewal
Happy New Year from PALA! Membership for 2011 is now open.
A Celebration in Style [pdf]
A one-day symposium at the University of Nottingham on 8th April 2011 will celebrate the contributions of Ron Carter and Katie Wales.
PALA 2010 Proceedings online
Papers from the 2010 annual PALA conference are now freely available from the PALA website
What is stylistics?
The Higher Education Academy English Subject Centre and the Poetics and Linguistics Association are delighted to call for entries for a UK Stylistics student poster competition.
PALA 2011 in Windhoek, Namibia
The website for the PALA conference in 2011 is now available.
LAND-SIG: new special interest group
A new PALA special interest group on the stylistics of landscape, space and place is launched
Language and Style published
A Festschrift for Mick Short was launched at the recent PALA conference.
PALA AGM 2010
The Annual General Meeting takes place in Genoa on 17:30 to 19:00 on Saturday 24th July 2010 as part of the PALA annual conference.
Call for papers for Language and Literature special issue
Language and Literature will publish a special issue on the topic of 'Stylistics and Pedagogical Research'.
PALA 2010 in Genoa
Registration is now open for the annual PALA conference, which will be held in Genoa from the 21st to the 25th July 2010.
Volcano stops stylistics
The PALA mini-conference on pedagogical stylistics (PED-SIG) in Budapest had to be cancelled due to the volcanic ash.
PARLANCE February 2010
The latest edition of PARLANCE, the PALA newsletter is published.
Pedagogical Stylistics in Budapest
Registration is open for the PALA mini-conference on Pedagogical Stylistics in Budapest, Hungary on the 19th and 20th April 2010.
PALA 2010 deadline approaching
The deadline for the submission of abstracts for the PALA 2010 conference is January 15th.
PALA 2010 Call for Papers
The Call for Papers for PALA 2010 has been issued with the deadline of 15th January 2010.
IGEL 2010
The International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media conference will take place at Utrecht University, the Netherlands (7-11 July 2010).
PALA Proceedings 2009 online
The Proceedings of the PALA 2009 annual conference are now online.
Dan McIntyre appointed Reviews Editor
Dan McIntyre of the University of Huddersfield has been appointed Reviews Editor of the PALA journal Language and Literature.
Next PALA Chair - Michael Burke
Michael Burke has been elected unopposed to be the Chair of PALA from 2010.
Pedagogical Stylistics Conference
Conference on Pedagogical Stylistics in Budapest, Hungary on the 19th and 20th April 2010,