Imago Mundi. An Overview of Metaphor: Creativity, Phraseology & Discourse
Short Title: METPHRADIS

Date: 09-May-2024 - 11-May-2024
Location: Cagliari, Italy
Contact: Mariangela Albano
Contact Email: [email protected]
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/imagomundi2024conference/home?authuser=2

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Meeting Description:

The guiding question of the conference will therefore be to try to specify the linguistic and conceptual functioning of the metaphor. More generally, the conference will welcome any contribution aimed at bringing out the relationships between metaphor and the three concepts in question: creativity, lexicalization and discourse.
The analysis of metaphor can proceed from both a diachronic and synchronic perspective and address different types of corpora and texts.
The conference will pay particular attention to the analysis of different types of discourse, in particular scientific, technological, media, tourism, advertising, political, legal, philosophical, historical, literary, artistic and educational/didactic discourse.
Abstracts (in French, English, German, Italian or Spanish) must be sent to the following address: [email protected]

Keynote speakers

Lorenzo Devilla (Università degli Studi di Sassari)
Elisabetta Gola (Università degli Studi di Cagliari)
María Isabel González Rey (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)
Micaela Rossi (Università degli Studi di Genova)
Gerard J. Steen (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Maurizio Trifone (Università degli Studi di Cagliari)