34.452, Calls: Figurative Thought and Language

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Subject: 34.452, Calls: Figurative Thought and Language

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Date: 
From: Marco Bagli [marbagli at gmail.com]
Subject: Figurative Thought and Language

Full Title: Figurative Thought and Language
Short Title: FTL 7

Date: 20-Sep-2023 - 22-Sep-2023
Location: Genoa, Italy
Contact Person: Marco Bagli
Meeting Email: ftl7symposium at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/ftl7symposium/home-page

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science

Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2023

Meeting Description:

The Figurative Thought and Language (FTL) Symposium series has reached
its 7th edition. This year, it will be organised by the Department of
Modern Languages at the University of Genoa. The aim of FTL is to
gather scholars working on the broad spectrum of figuration, its
manifestations and mechanisms in language and thought across
disciplines and areas of interest.

Call for Papers:

The 7th International Symposium on Figurative Thought and Language
(FTL 7) will be organised by the Department of Modern Languages at the
University of Genoa. Following the previous biannual meetings, which
have gathered scholars working on the broad spectrum of figuration,
the theme of this year’s meeting is Cognitive, bodily, and cultural
processes in Figurative Thought and Language.

We invite contributions from different theoretical (cognitive
linguistics, cognitive science, neuroscience, cognitive psychology,
cognitive anthropology), methodological (experimental protocols,
cross-linguistic comparison, synchronic and diachronic analyses,
corpus studies, quantitative and qualitative analyses), and applied
perspectives dealing with the role of figuration in motivating
linguistic phenomena and conceptual processes.

Suggested topics include (but are not restricted to):

role of figuration in morphology, syntax, lexis, semantics,
pragmatics;
role of figuration in grammar (grammatical constructions, grammatical
categories, parts-of-speech);
role of figuration in grammaticalization;
role of figuration in synchronic and diachronic language change and
variation;
figurative elaboration of perceptual stimuli;
figuration in different types of discourse (e.g., business, media,
literature, law, politics, science, sports, religion, psychotherapy,
etc.);
cognitive stylistics
corpus-based approaches to figuration;
experimental protocols, quantitative and statistical analyses of
figurative mechanisms;
cultural variation of figurative mechanisms;
emotional aspects of figurative language;
development of figurative language in first and second language
acquisition;
figuration in artificial intelligence;
figuration in gestures and sign languages;
multimodal figuration in images, music, cultural artifacts and
practices;
humour, irony, sarcasm;

Invited Speakers

Chloe Harrison, Aston University, UK
Laura Speed, Radboud University, NL (TBC)
TBA

Submission of abstracts

Abstract submission deadline: 30th April  2023
Notification of acceptance: 30th May 2023

Presentation will last 25 minutes (20 minutes for paper presentation
and 5 minutes for discussion). This 25-minute slot will be followed by
5 minutes for changing rooms.

The working language of the conference is English.
The abstract, both in a .pdf and a .doc(x) format, should be sent to
the following address: ftl7symposium at gmail.com
Abstracts should not exceed 500 words (including examples, and
excluding figures and references), and should include 5 keywords and
state research questions, approach, method, data and (expected)
results.
Abstracts should be written using Times New Roman 12, single spaced,
with a minimal use of special fonts, a minimum of figures and tables,
and no footnotes.
All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by two referees, members of
the Scientific Committee.
Please, do not mention the author's name, institution or address in
the abstract.
The subject header of your email should include: FTL7 submission –
name(s).
Please include the following information in the main body of your
email: (1) name of author(s), (2) affiliation, (3) title of the
presentation, (4) email address(es).
SUBMITTING MULTIPLE PAPERS. In order to guarantee diversity, nobody is
allowed to present or co-present more than two papers (EITHER one as
first author and one as co-author OR two as co-author).

CONFERENCE WEBSITE:
https://sites.google.com/view/ftl7symposium/home-page

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