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1. Hans-Joerg
Schmid,
Figurative Language - Creativity, Entrenchment, Conventionality
Message 1: Figurative Language - Creativity, Entrenchment, Conventionality
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Date: 20-Jan-2009
From: Hans-Joerg Schmid <hans-joerg.schmidlmu.de>
Subject: Figurative Language - Creativity, Entrenchment, Conventionality
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Figurative Language - Creativity, Entrenchment, Conventionality
Short Title: 5th ICCLS Symposium
Date: 29-Jan-2009 - 30-Jan-2009
Location: Munich, Germany
Contact: Hans-Joerg Schmid
Contact Email: hans-joerg.schmidlmu.de
Meeting URL:
http://www.kognitive-sprachforschung.lmu.de/event/symposium/5th/5thicclssymposium.html
Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis; Linguistic Theories;
Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics
Meeting Description:
Figurative Language -
Creativity, Entrenchment, Conventionality
January 29th and 30th, 2009
Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
Depending on the theories proposed, students of figurative language have focused
their attention either on original, inventive metaphors and metonymies (e.g.
rhetoric, aesthetics, semiotics, pragmatics) or on their conventionality in
speech communities and their cognitive entrenchment in the minds of speakers
(e.g. theories of language change, conceptual theory of metaphor and metonymy,
neural theory of metaphor, embodiment theory). However, in their endeavours to
illuminate the nature of figurative language and to argue their case,
researchers from the different camps have often put too much emphasis on the
description of the extremes of what is really a continuum, i.e. original and
highly conventional (or even dead) metaphors and metonymies, thereby largely
neglecting its scalar nature.
The aim of this symposium is to investigate the nature of this continuum of
conventionality. Two papers at the beginning of the conference will chart the
territory to be covered by stating opposing positions: on the one hand, the view
that figurative language is a part of language users' cognitive systems, and on
the other hand, the view that the production and comprehension of figurative
language mainly relies on online processes heavily constrained by context.
Subsequent papers will supply evidence from various linguistic and neighbouring
disciplines which can contribute to a resolution of the debate:
Neurolinguistics and Speech Pathology
Psycholinguistics, Language Acquisition, and Gesture
Diachronic and Synchronic Approaches to the Lexicon
Grammar and Discourse
Programme
29 January 2009
(Room 153 Rear Building, Schellingstrasse 3)
16.00
Hans-Joerg Schmid (Munich)
Opening
16.15
Deirdre Wilson (London)
Metaphor and Relevance: A Pragmatic Account
17.15
Friedrich Ungerer (Halle/Munich)
Figurative Language, Metaphors and Categorization
18.30
Reception (Library II)
30 January 2009
(Senate Hall)
09.00
Cornelia Müller (Frankfurt/Oder)
A Dynamic View on Multi-Modal Metaphors in Language Use
10.00
Seana Coulson (San Diego)
Metaphor and the Brain
11.30
Aivars Glaznieks (Munich)
Children's Variation of Idioms: What Children's Idiomatic Creativity Reveals
about the Entrenchment of Metaphors
14.00
Peter Koch (Tuebingen)
Metonymy and Contiguity: Ubiquity, Types of Creativity, Entrenchment
15.00
Sandra Handl (Munich)
The Conventionality of Metonymies: Corpus-Evidence and Conceptual Prerequisites
16.30
Richard Waltereit (Newcastle)
Entrenchment, Convention and Diachronic Change: Negation in French
17.30
Lynne Cameron (Milton Keynes)
Metaphor Creativity: Poetic and Prosaic
18.30
Ulrich Detges (Munich)
Closing Remarks
19.30
Conference Dinner (Weisses Braeuhaus im Tal)
Attendance is free of charge. Please register by email to hans-joerg.schmidlmu.de
For more details visit:
http://www.kognitive-sprachforschung.lmu.de/event/symposium/5th/5thicclssymposium.html
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