32.4065, Confs: Cognitive Science, Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics/Greece

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Subject: 32.4065, Confs: Cognitive Science, Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics/Greece

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Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2021 04:27:34
From: Angeliki Alvanoudi [aalvanoudi at enl.auth.gr]
Subject: Social and Cultural Aspects of Language and their Figurative Potential

Social and Cultural Aspects of Language and their Figurative Potential 

Date: 28-Jan-2022 - 29-Jan-2022 
Location: Thessaloniki (Online), Greece 
Contact: Angeliki Alvanoudi 
Contact Email: aalvanoudi at enl.auth.gr 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

Online workshop organized by Thessaloniki Cognitive Linguistics Research Group
(http://www.enl.auth.gr/tclr)
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of English, 54124 Thessaloniki,
Greece

The aim of the workshop is to carry out research on the cognitive and
sociocultural aspects of languages also accounting for the figurative
extensions. Cognitive Linguistics has mainly analyzed majority languages
(English in particular) from a synchronic perspective showing limited interest
in social and multimodal aspects of communication (Divjak et al. 2016). In
recent years there has been growing interest in socially and culturally
situated cognition and empirically grounded cognitive linguistic research, as
is evidenced, inter alia, by studies on cognitive sociolinguistics (Geeraerts
et al. 2010; Kristiansen & Geeraerts 2013; Pütz et al. 2014), social cognitive
linguistics (Croft 2009), cultural linguistics (Sharifian 2017), and studies
on cognitive linguistics and interactional discourse (Zima & Brône 2015). The
proposed workshop considers figurative thought and language as a promising
area of research within the ‘sociocultural turn’ of the Cognitive Linguistics
framework, and aims to shed light into data from languages for which research
on the cognitive and sociocultural aspects also exploring the figurative
perspective remains limited. More specifically, the workshop aims to examine
the role of figurative thought in the interplay between social, cognitive and
cultural aspects of language use, focusing on language variation, cultural
models in speech communities, the ideological dimensions of
political/parliamentary discourse and the press, the relation between
multimodal discourse, culture, and ideology/power, to name some aspects of the
broad sociocultural field of research.

Program:

Social and cultural aspects of language and their figurative potential   
Online workshop organized by Thessaloniki Cognitive Linguistics Research Group
Saturday, 29 January 2022 

(All times in Greek time zone)

10.00-10.15 Opening Session (Angeliki Alvanoudi)   

Session 1 (irony)  
10.15-10.30 Inés Lozano-Palacio & Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza, Dimensions of
echoic activity in irony
10.30-10.45 Fabienne Baider & Maria Constantinou, Irony in anti-vax and
pro-vax Facebook discussions: A comparative cross-cultural approach
10.45-11.00 Discussion break 

Session 2 (metaphors, political debates/arguments)
11.00-11.15 Anais Auge, Political arguments and political responses through
metaphors: The role of quoted metaphors in the climate change debate 
11.15-11.30 Ludmilla A ’Beckett, The discourse-historical situatedness of a
metaphor scenario: “The hand of Moscow” as an actor and recipient in Ukrainian
discourse  
11.30-11.45 Teodora Popescu, Metaphorical representations of COVID-19 in the
Romanian press
11.45-12.00 Discussion break 

Session 3 (strategies of crisis discourse, comparative studies)
12.00-12.15 Eleni Butulussi, The conceptual metaphor CRISIS IS WAR in
different discourse-historical contexts: A comparative study
12.15-12.30 Anais Auge, “We are in the same storm, not in the same boat”: When
a metaphor does not fit environmental concerns 
12.30-12.45 Paraskevi Pavlopoulou, Metaphor in migration crisis discourse:
Analyzing conversations with the police
12.45-13.00 Discussion break 

13.00-15.00 Lunch break 

Session 4 (metonymy, cultural cognition)
15.00-15.15 Carla Ovejas Ramírez, Can metonymic complexes account for the
translation of film titles? A case study
15.15-15.30 Thodoris Xioufis, Cultural aspects in metonymies of romantic love
15.30-15.45 Efthimia Apokatanidis, “Universal” and cultural elements in the
figurative verbo-visual representation of depression
15.45-16.00 Discussion break 

Session 5 (socio/ethnolects, metaphor)
16.00-16.15 Maria Karali, Ethnolects for political authorities in ancient
Greek dialects
16.15-16.30 A. Somoglou & Maria Theodoropoulou, Metaphor, experience, and
sociolect: Τhe motorcycle in the language of motorcyclists
16.30-16.45 Xiang Huang, Is obesity just a health issue? Metaphorical
representations of obesity in Weibo
16.45-17.00 Discussion break

Session 6 (socio/interactional perspectives)
17.00-17.15 Stavros Assimakopoulos, Communicating exclusion: The propositional
and affective effects of figurative language in discriminatory discourse 
17.15-17.30 Maria Christodoulidou, Figurative language in complaints related
to covid19 pandemic in a live radio broadcast
17.30-17.45 Angeliki Alvanoudi, The ideological work of figurative language in
Greek conversation: An interactional perspective
17.45-18.00 Discussion break 

18.00-19.00 Plenary session: Costas Canakis, Social and cultural aspects of
language in grammar and discourse 

19.00-19.30 Closing discussion

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