Workshop: Issues in Researching Metaphor in Disc ourse, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (Espa ña)

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Workshop: 'Issues in Researching Metaphor in Discourse'
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (Ciudad Real, España), 22 y 23 de
marzo de 2007
Información procedente de:
LINGCOG, Lista de distribución de la Asociación Española de
Lingüística Cognitiva  http://www.um.es/lincoing/aelco/,
http://www.raam.org.uk/pub/Spain_announcement.doc y
http://www.raam.org.uk/Home.html
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The workshop is aimed at metaphor researchers who work with real world
discourse data. Four workshop sessions, each lasting two and a half
hours, will be led by experts in the field and will involve input,
discussion and hands-on activity. There will be a Round Table
discussion of issues in researching metaphor, and the first Annual
General Meeting of the Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM)
Workshop association.

Speakers include: John Barnden (University of Birmingham, UK); Tony
Berber Sardinha (Pontifical Catholic University of Saõ Paulo, Brazil);
Lynne Cameron (The Open University, UK); Jeanette Littlemore
(University of Birmingham, UK); Graham Low (University of York, UK);
Fiona MacArthur Purdon (Universdad Extremadura, Spain); Elena Semino
(University of Lancaster, UK)

Organiser: Rosario Caballero, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Dept.
de Filología Moderna

PROGRAMA

Thursday, 22 March

11.30 Opening

12.00 – 1.30 Identifying Patterns of Metaphor in Discourse
Lynne Cameron (The Open University) and Graham Low (U. of York)
Workshop and discussion.

Description:
Metaphor researchers working with real world discourse often need to
find systematic patterns of metaphor use that condense and summarise
large amounts of spoken or written data. This workshop demonstrates
how linguistic metaphors in transcribed talk can be grouped together
to identify systematic patterns of use. We begin with an overview of
the procedure applied to reconciliation conversations, showing how
systematic metaphor patterns emerge and evolve. Participants will then
be taken through the stages of the procedure using data from a focus
group interview: grouping metaphor vehicles, identifying and grouping
topic domains, labelling groups of connected metaphors, and making
sense of their role in the talking and thinking of interviewees. We
will discuss methodological issues, such as identification decisions,
precautions in data interpretation, and choosing accurate labels for
groups of metaphors.

13.30 - 16.00 PhD students meeting
Anna Kaal (Vrije Universitet Amsterdam)

LUNCH

16.00 - 16.40  Metaphor and Artificial Intelligence:
John Barnden (U. of Birmingham, U.K.)

Description:
The presentation will explain why AI and other modern areas of
Computer Science need to concern themselves with metaphor, and what
distinctive ideas and methods AI can bring to the issue of how
metaphor works and how (even) people deal with metaphor. In fact, AI
considerations about metaphor highlight the need to take proper
account of discourse issues, rather than considering metaphorical
utterances in isolation. Particular issues to be addressed in the
presentation, and potentially the discussion, include: how exactly to
use context in metaphor interpretation; the question of how much
meaning one should seek to extract from an utterance; the question of
whether each utterance has a meaning by itself or rather whether
meaning is more at discourse level; and the issue of whether it can be
useful to transfer information from target to source in metaphor as
well as from source to
target. The presentation and discussion will not assume any prior
knowledge of AI or computer science.

16.40 - 17.30 Workshop and discussion.

17.30 – 18.00 Break

18.00 – 19.30
Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM) 1st Annual General Meeting
(open to all RaAM
members)

DINNER

Friday 23 March

9.00 – 11.00 Corpus-based approaches to the study of metaphor:
Alice Deignan (U. of Leeds) and Elena Semino (Lancaster University).
Workshop and discussion.

Description:
In recent years, corpus-based techniques have been increasingly
applied to the study of metaphor. General-purpose corpora have been
used to study systematic metaphorical patterns in particular
languages, with important implications for metaphor theory, and
particularly for claims about underlying conceptual metaphors.
Specialised corpora have been used to investigate the role of metaphor
in particular genres and discourses, and to study the ideological
dimension of metaphor. In this workshop we will demonstrate a number
of techniques for the exploitation of corpora for metaphor research.
We will consider the choice of corpora and reference corpora, and the
use of software for the production of concordances and the extraction
of keywords. We will also demonstrate the potential of semantic
annotation software for the investigation of metaphorical patterns.
Throughout, we
will reflect on the potential and limitations of a corpus methodology
for metaphor researchers

11.00- 11.30 Break

11.30-13.00
ROUND TABLE: Issues in Researching Metaphor in Discourse:
Lynne Cameron, Graham Low, Fiona MacArthur, Jeannette Littlemore,
Alice Deignan, /Elena Semino, John Barnden. Chair: Rosario Caballero

LUNCH

16.00- 16.40
Researching Metaphor and Language Learning
Fiona MacArthur (U. de Extremadura) and Jeannette Littlemore/ (U. of
Birmingham, U.K.).

Description:
In this workshop we look at the use of metaphor by language learners
and at ways of teaching metaphor to foreign language learners. We
examine and evaluate several different approaches to researching
metaphor in the language classroom, and outline the areas in
need of further research. We incorporate a number of hands-on
activities to allow participants to apply some of the research
techniques. We then suggest sample research projects that could be
conducted by research students. Areas covered will include: (a)
Classroom-based observation,  (b) Introspection, interview and think
aloud techniques, (c) Discourse
analysis, (d) Corpus studies, and (e) Intervention studies. During the
workshop, we will identify key resources and references for those who
are interested in conducting their own research into metaphor in the
language classroom.

16.40 – 17.30 Workshop and discussion

Más información: <mrosario.caballero at uclm.es>

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