26.4981, Calls: General Ling/Italy

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Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2015 11:57:04
From: Ilaria Rizzato [ilaria.rizzato.unige at gmail.com]
Subject: Metaphor: Retrospect and Prospects

 
Full Title: Metaphor: Retrospect and Prospects 

Date: 20-May-2016 - 22-May-2016
Location: Genoa, Italy 
Contact Person: Ilaria Rizzato
Meeting Email: ilaria.rizzato.unige at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.lingue.unige.it/eventi/metaphor2016/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 10-Feb-2016 

Meeting Description:

The Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Genoa is organising 
an international conference on “Metaphor: Retrospect and Prospects,'' which will take place in 
Genoa from May 20 to 22, 2016. Papers are invited from all disciplines on any aspect of 
metaphor theory, its applications and developments.

Call for Papers: 

The so-called ''Cognitive Revolution'' brought with it, among other features, Cognitive or 
Conceptual Metaphor (CM) (Reddy, Lakoff and Johnson), refining and expanding theories 
of comparison and property attribution. In the period 1970-1990 circa, CM gradually came 
to dominate the metaphor scene, consolidating its position in the twenty years that 
followed, also bolstered by relevance theory and Gricean pragmatics. Naturally, there were 
''offshoots'' and complementary strands - developments such as blending theory − which 
enriched the scene. Unsurprisingly, inadequacies were also identified and ''alternatives'' or 
“integrations”, such as perceptual simulation (Gibbs, Barsalou), framing (Schoen, Reddy) 
offered. Indeed, framing may be combined with conceptual blending (Fauconnier and 
Turner), the importance of pragmatics and context (Douthwaite, Kovecses), and of 
narratological theory (Biebuyck and Martens). There have also been more radical criticisms 
of this broad line of investigation, tending to come within more traditional domains of 
literary criticism and rhetoric theory (part one of Fludernik). In this domain non-cognitive 
approaches have not failed to make their mark (e.g. a revitalisation of analogy, Coenen).
Just as the theoretical domains are extremely wide-ranging, so are the domains of 
application, with every area of language having been treated − literary, conversation, 
politics, classroom, art, medicine, law, economics to name but a few.

Papers are therefore invited from all disciplines, including literature, linguistics, psychology, 
sociology, criminology, anthropology, communication studies, medicine and the hard 
sciences, on any aspect of metaphor theory and its applications. Papers are also welcome 
which trace the development of metaphor theory and how developments in metaphor 
theory are related to more general developments in the field of science.

The main language for the conference is English, as will be the ensuing publication, but 
scholars employing French, German and Spanish will also be accepted provided a 
minimum number of papers is received. 

When submitting an abstract for either French, German or Spanish, authors should indicate 
whether they are willing to present their paper in English if insufficient proposals are 
submitted in their own language.

Submitting Abstracts: 

Please send abstracts of up to 400 words as Word attachments by February 10, 2016. 
Please include your full name, gender, academic title, affiliation, postal address, email 
address, mobile number, the title of your presentation and five keywords. Notifications of 
acceptance will be sent within two weeks of receipt of a proposal.

Abstracts should be sent to the following organisers:

English:
John Douthwaite (j.douthw at virgilio.it), Ilaria Rizzato (ilaria.rizzato.unige at gmail.com), 
Elisabetta Zurru (elizurru at gmail.com)  

French:
Micaela Rossi (micaela.rossi at unige.it), John Douthwaite (j.douthw at virgilio.it), Ilaria 
Rizzato (ilaria.rizzato.unige at gmail.com)

German: 
Serena Spazzarini (Serena.Spazzarini at unige.it), John Douthwaite (j.douthw at virgilio.it), 
Ilaria Rizzato (ilaria.rizzato.unige at gmail.com)

Spanish: 
Ana Lourdes de Heriz (ana.deheriz at unige.it), John Douthwaite (j.douthw at virgilio.it), Ilaria 
Rizzato (ilaria.rizzato.unige at gmail.com)




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