30.3548, Calls: Cognitive Science/Bulgaria

Fri Sep 20 10:15:59 UTC 2019

LINGUIST List: Vol-30-3548. Fri Sep 20 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.3548, Calls: Cognitive Science/Bulgaria

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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 06:15:33
From: Nelly Tincheva [nelitinch at yahoo.com]
Subject: Figurative Thought and Language 5

Full Title: Figurative Thought and Language 5 
Short Title: FTL5 

Date: 23-Apr-2020 - 25-Apr-2020
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria 
Contact Person: Nelly Tincheva
Meeting Email: ftl5bulgaria2020 at gmail.com
Web Site: https://ftl5.uni-sofia.bg/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science 

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2019 

Meeting Description:

The 5th International Conference on Figurative Thought and Language (FTL5)
will take place at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridsky”. It continues the
tradition of regular forums for the discussion of links between figurative
thought and language started at previous events in Thessaloniki-Greece (2014),
Pavia-Italy (2015), Osijek-Croatia (2017) and Braga-Portugal (2018).

Cognitive linguistics has had from its very inception as its buzzwords
conceptual metaphors and metonymies, image schemas and blending. These
signposts gave rise to new topics and methodologies which are gradually
pushing conceptual metaphors and metonymies out of the limelight opening the
stage for vigorous research into how conceptual metaphors and metonymies
interact and motivate grammatical structures, discourse types, communication
processes, and overall structuring of human knowledge and behaviour.

2nd Call for Papers:

FTL5 invites 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, etc.) on issues relating to the cognition-figurativity-language
nexus.

Suggested topics are:

- the impact of figuration on levels of linguistic analysis (morphology,
lexis, syntax, semantics, pragmatics) and grammar;
- the impact of figuration on discourse types: politics, economics, public
sphere, narrative, medicine, education, etc.;
- corpus-based, experimental and multivariate approaches to figuration;
- diachronic and sociocultural approaches to figuration, language change and
variation;
- figuration from body, culture, society;
- figuration and ideology;
- figuration, rhetoric and manipulation;
- figuration, creativity and blending;
- figuration and emotion;
- figuration and problem solving;
- figuration and cognitive development;
- figuration and pedagogy;
- multimodal figuration;
- figuration in gestures and sign languages;
- humour, irony, sarcasm;
- antithesis, antiphrasis, euphemism, hyperbole, hypallage, simile, and other
“rhetorical tropes.”

Theme sessions proposals:

Theme session organizers should submit their proposals to
ftl5bulgaria2020gmail.com either in a .pdf or a .doc(x) format. Proposals
should include: session title, name and affiliation of the convener(s), topic
description, research questions (up to 1000 words), a list of each paper’s
author(s), all abstracts for the session. The maximum number of papers per
theme session is 12. Session conveners are asked to distribute a CfP
indicating that they are organizing a theme session at FTL5, 2020. Once a
theme session has been accepted, individual authors will need to submit their
abstracts to the conference email address for reviewing.

Submission of abstracts:

Presentations will last 25 minutes (including 5 minutes for questions). Each
25-minute slot will be followed by 5 minutes for room changes.

Guidelines for presentation and poster submissions:

- The working language of the conference is English.
- Abstracts should be sent to ftl5bulgaria2020gmail.com in a .pdf or a .doc(x)
format.
- Abstracts should not exceed 500 words, should state research questions,
approach, method, data and results, and should include 5 keywords.
- Abstracts should be written in Times New Roman 12, single-spaced, with a
minimal use of special fonts, figures and tables, no footnotes.
- Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by three referee members of the
Scientific Committee.
- Abstracts should include author’s name or affiliation.
- The subject header of your email should include: FTL5 – name(s).
- Please include the following in the main body of your email: (1) name of
author(s), (2) affiliation, (3) title of the presentation, (4) email address,
(5) postal address.

Important Dates:

1 October 2019: Theme session proposals submission deadline
15 October 2019: Deadline for submission of all abstracts
30 November 2019: Notification of paper and poster acceptance
5 January 2020: Early bird registration starts
1 February 2020: Full fee registration starts
28 February 2020: Closing registration date

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