LINGUIST List 29.615
Mon Feb 05 2018
Calls: Cog Sci, Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Semantics/Portugal
Editor for this issue: Kenneth Steimel <kenlinguistlist.org>
Date: 02-Feb-2018
From: Augusto Soares da Silva <assilva
braga.ucp.pt>
Subject: 4th
International Conference on Figurative Thought and Language
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Figurative Thought and Language
Short Title: FTL4
Date: 23-Oct-2018 - 26-Oct-2018
Location: Braga, Portugal
Contact
Person: Augusto Soares da Silva
Meeting Email:
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click here to access email > Web Site:
http://braga.ucp.pt/ftl4/
Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis; General
Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Semantics
Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2018
Meeting Description:
4th International Conference on Figurative
Thought and Language
23-26 October 2018
Catholic University of Portugal
Faculty
of Philosophy and Social Sciences – Braga, Portugal
http://braga.ucp.pt/ftl4/ The
4th International Conference on Figurative Thought and Language (FTL4) aims to
continue as a forum for the discussion of links between figurative thought and
language started at previous events in Thessaloniki (2014), Pavia (2015) and Osijek
(2017). Cognitive linguistics was at the time of its inception all about conceptual
metaphors, and also about metonymies, image schemas and blending. As a result of the
rapid development and diversification of cognitive linguistics, new topics and
methodologies emerged, gradually pushing conceptual metaphors and metonymies out of
the center stage. However, vigorous research into how conceptual metaphors and
metonymies interact and motivate grammatical structures, discourse types and
communication processes that we have recently witnessed justifies its coming back
into the limelight.
Plenary Speakers:
Kathryn Allan, University
College London, UK
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english/people/kathryn-allan
John Barnden, University of Birmingham, UK
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~jab/
Geert Brône, University of Leuven, Belgium
http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/ling/midi/members/geertbrone
Gareth Carrol, University of Birmingham, UK
http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/carrol-gareth.aspx
Dirk Geeraerts, University of Leuven, Belgium
http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/qlvl/dirkg.htm
Dylan Glynn, Université Paris 8, France
http://www.dsglynn.univ-paris8.fr/
Solange Vereza, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil
http://lattes.cnpq.br/1618071167867539
Esme Winter-Froemel, Trier University, Germany
https://www.uni-trier.de/index.php?id=55488
Jordan Zlatev, Lund University, Sweden
http://www.sol.lu.se/en/person/JordanZlatev/
2nd Call for Papers:
The 4th International Conference on Figurative Thought
and Language aims to continue as a forum for the discussion of links between
figurative thought and language started at previous events in Thessaloniki (2014),
Pavia (2015) and Osijek (2017).
We invite contributions from various
theoretical and applied perspectives (e.g. cognitive linguistics, cognitive science,
neuroscience, psychology, cognitive semiotics, cognitive poetics, cognitive
anthropology and philosophy of mind), and methodologies (e.g. corpus studies,
experimental techniques, synchronic and diachronic analyses, critical discourse
analysis, sociovariational analysis, cross-linguistic and cross-cultural comparison,
translation). Suggested topics include (but are not restricted to):
- The
impact of figuration on levels of linguistic analysis (morphology, lexis, syntax,
semantics, pragmatics)
- The impact of figuration on areas of grammar
(grammatical constructions, grammatical categories, parts-of-speech)
- The
impact of figuration on various types of discourse: politics, economics, business,
media, public sphere, advertising, story-telling, narrative, law, science, medicine,
healthcare, illness, education, poetry, sports, religion, etc.
- Corpus-based,
experimental and multivariate statistical approaches to figuration
- Diachronic
and sociocultural approaches to figuration; figuration and language change and
variation
- Figuration from body, culture and society
- Figuration and
ideology
- Figuration and rhetoric, persuasion and manipulation
-
Figuration, creativity and blending
- Figuration and artificial intelligence
- Figuration and emotion
- Figuration and problem solving in business,
politics, education, healthcare, counselling, psychotherapy and conflict situations
(war, terrorism, climate change, migration, racism, globalization, populism)
-
Figuration and cognitive development: figurativeness acquisition, processing and
comprehension
- Figuration and language teaching and pedagogy
- Multimodal
figuration: figuration in images, music and gestures
- Figurative gestures and
figuration in sign languages
- Humor, irony, sarcasm
- Antithesis,
antiphrasis, euphemism, hyperbole, hypallage, simile, synecdoche, synesthesia and
other understudied figures
The language of the conference is English.
Session slots will be allocated 25 minutes, which includes questions and discussion.
1. Theme sessions
Deadline: 10 February 2018. Notification: 28 February
2018
Theme session organizers should submit their theme session proposals
directly to the conference organizers (by email: ftl4
braga.ucp.pt).
Theme session proposals should include: session title, name and affiliation of the
theme session convener, a description of the topic and research questions (no more
than 1000 words excluding references), a list of the authors and titles of the
individual papers, and all abstracts for the theme session in a suitable order.
Once the theme session has been accepted as a whole, theme session authors will
need to submit their abstracts for review (following the guidelines below).
2. General session and submission of all abstracts
Deadline: 31 March 2018.
Notification: 30 April 2018.
- The abstract should be sent to the following
address: ftl4
braga.ucp.pt
- Abstracts should not exceed 500 words (including examples, and excluding
figures and references), and should include 5 keywords and state research questions,
approach, method, data and (expected) results.
- Please do not mention the
author’s name, institution or address in the abstract.
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