4th International Conference on Researching & Applying Metaphor

[Zouhair Maalej]

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

(SECOND CIRCULAR)

4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCHING & APPLYING METAPHOR

(RAAM IV, 5-6-7 April 2001, Tunis)



Conference theme: Metaphor, Cognition, and Culture


CALL

The organisers are happy to announce the fourth version of Researching &
Applying Metaphor (more known as RAAM). RAAM IV will be hosted in Tunisia,
and its theme is Metaphor, Cognition, and Culture. The RAAM IV event is a
follow-up of the successful conferences held in York (1996), Copenhagen
(1997), and Tilbürg (1999). In continuation of the previous editions, RAAM
IV intends to keep active the two fundamental components of researching and
applying metaphor. In keeping with the previous RAAM's concern with both
monolingual and interlingual approaches to metaphor, RAAM IV aims to attract
and encourage a broad range of contributions on metaphor, cognition, and
culture from researchers and educationalists of different persuasions.
Contributions are welcome that address topics relating to verbal and/or
non-verbal metaphor, metaphor in cognition, metaphor in culture, and
metaphor in cognition and culture both in literary and non-literary texts.

ABSTRACT

The deadline for paper proposals is 15 October, 2000. The proposal should
include: (i) the author's name, affiliation, full snail-address,
telephone/fax, e-mail address; (ii) the title of the submission; (iii) a
200-word abstract, which, for practical reasons, must be sent in electronic
form within the body of the e-mail to the Conference main organiser's e-mail
address: (zmaalej at gnet.tn), mentioning "Submission for RAAM IV" in the
Subject line of the mail; and (iv) specification as to whether the
participant needs technical support. All abstracts will be refereed by the
Scientific Committee. In case of multiple participants for the same
abstract, correspondence will be sent to the main author. Participants
wanting to attend without intending to read a paper are also welcome, and
should send an e-mail including the information required for (i) only.

INVITED SPEAKERS

The following speakers have confirmed their participation:

- John Barnden (University of Birmingham, UK)


- Alice Deignan (University of Leeds, UK)

- Raymond Gibbs (Santa Cruz, California, USA)

- Mark Turner (Maryland, USA)

FORMAT

RAAM IV invites single papers (not exceeding 30 minutes for presentation) to
be organised in different thematic panels, with a round-up discussion for
each major topic. SIGs and round tables of interest to a group of
participants will also be encouraged. One panel has already been suggested
on: "Non-verbal Metaphor, specifically Pictorial Metaphor." Two round tables
have been made provisions for, namely, (i) Metaphor Identification, and (ii)
Metaphor Applications to Education.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

- Lynne Cameron (University of Leeds, UK)

- Alan Cienki (Emory University, Atlanta)

- Kathryn English (Evry, France)

- Charles Forceville (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

- Graham Low (University of York, UK)

- Masako Hiraga(Japan)

- Gerard Steen (The Netherlands)


LANGUAGE

The official Conference language will be English.

CONFERENCE ORGANISATION

Zouhair Maalej (main organiser)

Rafik Jammoussi (member)

Mohamed Daoud (member)

DATES TO REMEMBER

- Abstract Submission: 15 October, 2000.
- Notification of Acceptance: by 15 December, 2000.
- Details for the panel on "Non-verbal Metaphor" to be posted by 31
December, 2000.
- Details about venue, fee, hotel accommodation, and social program to
  be announced by 31 December, 2000.

CORRESPONDENCE

Further information could be obtained from:

Zouhair Maalej,
Home Tel/Fax: (+216) 1 362 871
E-mail: zmaalej at gnet.tn



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