LINGUIST List 29.2973
Fri Jul 20 2018
Confs: Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Language Acquisition, Socioling/United Kingdom
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Date: 20-Jul-2018
From: Marianna Bolognesi <marianna.bolognesi
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Subject: The Creative Power of Metaphor
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Date: 29-Mar-2019 - 30-Mar-2019
Location: Oxford, United Kingdom
Contact: Marianna Bolognesi
Contact Email:
< click here to access email > Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics
Meeting Description:
Save the Date: The Creative Power of Metaphor
#creativemetaphor
29 – 30 March 2019 at Worcester College, Oxford, UK
Join us in Oxford for a 2-day conference designed to investigate the nexus between the following three elements: Metaphor, Linguistic Diversity, and Human Creativity.
The conference will be structured around four keynote lectures and four panels which will investigate four themes, outlined below. A call inviting participation in the panels and presentation of poster contributions will be advertised at the beginning of September.
1. Panel topic: Metaphor and linguistic diversity
Keynote speaker: Lera Boroditsky
2. Panel topic: Metaphor and emotion
Keynote speaker: Zoltan Kövecses
3. Panel topic: Metaphor and communication
Keynote speaker: Gerard Steen
4. Panel topic: Metaphor and creativity
Keynote speaker: Rachel Giora
We look forward to welcoming you in Oxford!
The Organisers:
Professor Katrin Kohl
Dr Marianna Bolognesi
Dr Ana Werkmann Horvat
Creative Multilingualism (
https://www.creativeml.ox.ac.uk/).
Our research group is a large cross-disciplinary team of academics working on the nexus between linguistic diversity and creativity. The conference is being organised by Strand 1 of Creative Multilingualism: Embodying Ideas – the Creative Power of Metaphor:
https://www.creativeml.ox.ac.uk/research/metaphor
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