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Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 11:08:29
From: Andrew Gargett [A.D.Gargett at cs.bham.ac.uk]
Subject: Producing Figurative Language: Linguistic, Cultural, Philosophical, Psychological and Computational Perspectives

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Full Title: Producing Figurative Language: Linguistic, Cultural, Philosophical, Psychological and Computational Perspectives 

Date: 20-Jul-2015 - 25-Jul-2015
Location: Newcastle, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: John Barnden Andrew Gargett
Meeting Email: A.D.Gargett at cs.bham.ac.uk

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 08-Sep-2014 

Meeting Description:

The 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-13)

Dates & Location of ICLC-13: 20-25 July 2015, Northumbria University,
Newcastle, England

Title of Theme Session:

Producing Figurative Language: linguistic, cultural, philosophical, psychological and computational perspectives

Communication is replete with figurative language, such as metaphor or metonymy, and people use such language in a variety of contexts and with a range of effects. There are important open questions as to why and how speakers come to speak figuratively in any given instance and what governs their particular choices of conceptual metaphors, figurative phraseology, etc, and indeed how (un)conscious or (un)deliberate such choices can be. Implicit in these questions are issues about the explanatory, obfuscatory, affective and social functions of figurative language. 

For a phenomena as central to our lives as figurative language, how it is produced should be a priority within the cognitive sciences, one would think. Indeed, work on the production of figurative language has been carried out in areas as diverse as developmental studies (Winner 1997), psycholinguistics (Chiappe & Kennedy 2001), language learning (Deignan et al. 1997, Littlemore 2009), neurolinguistics (Benedek et al. 2014), communication and performance studies (Gibbs & Cameron 2008), natural language generation (e.g. Martin 1988, Su & Zhou 2005, Veale & Hao 2007, Gargett & Barnden 2014).  Yet, much less research has been devoted to the production of such language compared to research on how it is understood.

Please see call for papers for more details about aims, objectives, etc, of symposium.

Important Note:

Our accepting your submission as appropriate for the theme session, and having room for it, merely means that your name and talk title will be part of our proposal of the theme session to the ICLC-13 overall organizers. It does not constitute acceptance into the conference.  You still need to submit an abstract to the ICLC-13 overall organizers by the deadline below.

A maximum of twelve talks can be included in the theme session.

Important Dates for ICLC-13:

Deadline for abstract submission (general and theme session): 3 November 2014
Notification of acceptance: 15 January 2015

For the ICLC-13 general call for papers see (shortened): http://goo.gl/QCEXuF

Call for Papers:

We invite proposals from potential speakers to take part in an ICLC-13 (2015) Theme Session described below. Note: Potential speakers need to submit a title and abstract to us, the Theme Session oranizers, by September 8 (any time). Our email addresses are at the end of the description.

As the above list suggests fertile ground has recently been planted that could be further developed. Accordingly the theme session aims at developing accounts of the production of figurative language, from linguistic, cultural, psychological, philosophical and computational perspectives. Some example topics, by no means exhaustive, are:

1. Commonalities and differences between production of figurative vs. non-figurative expression, and between different forms of figurative expression (notably metaphor, metonymy, irony, hyperbole).

2. How the production of figurative expression reflects speakers' conceptualisations, goals and commitments.

3. Linking figurative production to social and cultural behaviour. For instance, how is figurative language produced across languages and/or cultures? How does this link to translation studies, including the area of machine translation?

4. Empirical results about figurative production, including from corpus work, educational research and psycholinguistic work.

5. The role of figurative language in communicating about particular domains of societal importance such as illness and political conflict.

6. Emotional/evaluative content of figurative expression.

7. The role of figurative expression in coping with difficulties in everyday communication, where such difficulties may stem from illness, unfamiliarity with a new situation, language learning, etc.

8. How intelligent technology that is able to handle figurative language might help improve social interactions for disadvantaged members of society (e.g., the elderly, the mentally ill).

9. In all the above, special features of non-linguistic and multi-modal forms of expression, including work on visual media, gesture, sign languages, and film.

Abstract submission to the theme organizers: by 8 September 2014.(200-300 words; references not required, but if included are not counted in those words)

Theme Session Organizers:

- John Barnden, J.A.Barnden at cs.bham.ac.uk
- Andrew Gargett, A.D.Gargett at cs.bham.ac.uk







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