20.183, Confs: Cognitive Science, Discourse Analysis, Psycholinguistics/Germany

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Date: 20-Jan-2009
From: Hans-Joerg Schmid < hans-joerg.schmid at lmu.de >
Subject: Figurative Language - Creativity, Entrenchment, Conventionality

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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:19:59
From: Hans-Joerg Schmid [hans-joerg.schmid at lmu.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.schmid at lmu.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.schmid at lmu.de 
For more details visit:
http://www.kognitive-sprachforschung.lmu.de/event/symposium/5th/5thicclssymposium.html

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