4th International Conference on Researching & Applying Metaphor

[Zouhair Maalej]

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SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
 
4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCHING & APPLYING METAPHOR
(RAAM IV, 5-6-7 April 2001, Tunis)

Conference theme: Metaphor, Cognition, and Culture

CALL 
The organiser is 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 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 equipment. 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 already 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 roundup discussion for each panel. SIGs and round tables of interest to a group of participants will also be encouraged. A panel has been already suggested on "Non-verbal Metaphor, specifically Pictorial Metaphor." Two round tables have been made provision 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 (University of Tilbürg, 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.
- Posting relative to the "Non-verbal Metaphor" panel will be before 31 December, 2000. 
- Details about venue, fee, hotel accommodation, and social program to be announced by 31 December, 2000. 

CORRESPONDENCE
For further information, please contact:
Zouhair Maalej,
Home Tel/Fax: (+216) 1 362 871
E-mail: zmaalej at gnet.tn