<div dir="ltr">Dear Corpora members,<br><br>We invite any of you who are interested in figurative language to come and join us in Lancaster on Monday 22nd July 2013 for the fifth Workshop on Corpus-Based Approaches to Figurative Language. A regular event held in conjunction with the Corpus Linguistics conferences, this fifth workshop is dedicated to the theme of Metaphor and Austerity, and has been endorsed by the Researching and Applying Metaphor International Association <a href="http://www.raam.org.uk/">www.raam.org.uk/</a><br>
<br>The workshop topic has attracted a wide variety of topics and approaches to figurative language, as the programme below reveals.<br><br>Malgorzata Paprota -- "Not a Safety Net: Metaphors of the welfare state in times of austerity in a corpus of British (and Polish) newspaper articles"<br>
Elena Negrea-Busuioc -- "What does austerity ‘look’ like? An analysis of visual metaphors in three newspaper cartoons depicting the Eurozone crisis"<br>Davida Fromm et al. -- "Interpretation of Metaphors in Four Languages: Some Psycholinguistic Experiments"<br>
Susie Caruso -- "Metaphorical Representations of Immigrants in the Italian Press in Times of Economic Crisis"<br>Olympia Tsaknaki & Eleni Tziafa -- " 'Democracy’s Cradle, Rocking the World': Figurative language regarding the Greek crisis"<br>
Hanno Biber -- "Austerity in the Thirties and the Consequences. Examples of Figurative German Language from the AAC Austrian Academy Corpus"<br>Laura Cariola -- "Exploring the embodied basis of political discourse types"<br>
Augusto Soares da Silva -- "Obese bodies, indebted families, and good students: Metaphors of austerity in the Portuguese press"<br>Patrick Hanks -- "The Mechanics of metaphor"<br>Round Table discussion -- Rosamund Moon, Gill Philip, Patrick Hanks<br>
<br><br>Information on how to register can be found here: <a href="http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2013/register.php">http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2013/register.php</a><br>*It is possible to register for just the pre-conference workshop.*<br>
<br>looking forward to seeing you in Lancaster!<br><br>Gill Philip<br><br>on behalf of the organising committee<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>*********************************<br>Dr. Gill Philip<br>Università degli Studi di Macerata<br>
Dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione, dei Beni Culturali, e del Turismo<br>Piazzale L. Bertelli<br>Contrada Vallebona<br>62100 Macerata<br>Italy
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