28.1049, Calls: Cog Sci, Pragmatics, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling/Romania

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Subject: 28.1049, Calls: Cog Sci, Pragmatics, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling/Romania

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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 14:24:53
From: Teodora Popescu [tpopescu at uab.ro]
Subject: Intercultural Metaphors: Towards a Global Conceptual Schema or Variable Cultural Concepts

 
Full Title: Intercultural Metaphors: Towards a Global Conceptual Schema or Variable Cultural Concepts 
Short Title: IMP 

Date: 17-Jun-2017 - 18-Jun-2017
Location: Alba Iulia, Romania 
Contact Person: Teodora Popescu
Meeting Email: tpopescu at uab.ro
Web Site: http://business-metaphors.ro/index.php?pagina=pg&id=21&l=en 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Pragmatics; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 17-Jun-2017 

Meeting Description:

Papers in this panel will seek to explore the relationship between cognitive
concepts and cultural concepts as embodied in metaphorical, figurative
language. We will undertake to demonstrate that cognitive metaphors are
instantiations of cultural categories manifested in the language spoken by the
community that shares a common set of characteristics within a given cultural
matrix. Popescu (2012, 2015a, 2015b), following Lakoff and Johnson (1980) and
Kövecses (2005) upheld the tenet that metaphors clustered in cognitive
categories account for cultural categories, both in terms of conceptual
universals and variants, resulting in a complex mapping of interrelated
cross-connections.

According to the cognitive linguistic theory, one concept is represented in
our mind by a series of other concepts that together constitute a coherent
whole, in the form of a mental frame. However, there are social and cultural,
even ideological concepts that are hardly generalizable, and hence, not
universal.

As analysed by Kövecses (2014), an example in case may be the representation
of the self, which is variable across different cultures. Thus (pp. 62-65), in
Western societies that emphasise the self, the concept is associated with a
number of other concepts, including independence (personal), self-centred,
self-expression, self-indulgence, personal goals and desires, happiness
(personal), achievement (personal), self-interest, selfishness, suspicion,
pride, competition, indifference. Conversely, in some Eastern societies, the
notion of the self is embedded in a different network of concepts, opposite to
the above: interdependence, other-centred, saving the other’s face,
self-denial, social goals and desires, happiness (social), achievement
(social), interest (social), sharing, trust, humility, cooperation, care,
concern. 

Geert Hofstede’s anthropological theory of cultural categories (1991) is
parallel to the above one, in that he also characterises societies as
individualistic versus collectivistic. In individualist societies the ties
between people are loose, people tend to look after himself/herself and their
immediate families, whereas in collectivistic societies, people from birth
onwards are integrated into strong, cohesive in-groups, cherishing family
values.

Our investigations will concentrate on the linguistic manifestations of such
cognitive categories versus cultural ones, and will try to reveal if indeed,
cultural conceptualisation projects in turn, metaphorical conceptualisation.

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Zoltán Kövecses, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Professor Mariana Neagu, Dunarea de Jos University, Galati, Romania
Professor Giacomo Ferrari, Amedeo Avogadro University, Vercelli, Italy

Registration fee:

Panel fee covers panel pack (Programme and Book of Abstracts, Participation
diploma), refreshments and coffee breaks, welcome cocktail on 16 June, and
lunch on 17 June, access to internet facilities.
Standard registration fee – 70 Euro, payable by 9 June, 2017.

Participants are invited to optionally join the social programme, as follows: 

Dinner at Hotel Cetate, Alba Iulia, Saturday, 17 June – 20 Euro.
Registration fee should be transferred to the accounts below with the
reference “SURNAME_NAME_METAPHOR-2017”. 
Fees can be paid in EURO and in lei (RON). Please instruct your bank to apply
exchange rates as on the transfer date. Please make sure the amount
transferred is clear of bank charges.

Payment information can be found on the conference webpage
(http://business-metaphors.ro/index.php?pagina=pg&id=21&l=en)


Call for Papers:

Panel Title: Intercultural metaphors: Towards a global conceptual schema or
variable cultural concepts
Conveners: Professor Zoltán Kövecses, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest,
Hungary
Associate Professor Teodora Popescu, 1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba
Iulia, Romania
Duration:  17-18 June 2017
Venue: 1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia, Romania

Please send your proposals (500 words) to tpopescu at uab.ro, by 26 May 2017.
Letter of acceptance will be sent by 2 June 2017.

For further information, please check
http://business-metaphors.ro/index.php?pagina=pg&id=21&l=en. The site will be
updated regularly.

Publication: 

A selection of (extended) papers (4500-9000 words) will be published in the
Journal of Linguistic and Intercultural Education - JoLIE 2018, which is
indexed by ERIH Plus, EBSCO, ProQuest, MLA Directory of Periodicals, Cabell’s
Directories, Ulrichs Web, The Linguist List. (please see http://jolie.uab.ro/)

Additionally, a peer-reviewed selection of conference papers will be published
in a monographic collection produced by a reputable international publisher. 

Further details will follow in due time.




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