27.349, Calls: General Ling/Netherlands

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LINGUIST List: Vol-27-349. Tue Jan 19 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.349, Calls: General Ling/Netherlands

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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 14:40:33
From: Romy van den heerik [r.a.m.vandenheerik at uva.nl]
Subject: Metaphor Festival Amsterdam

Full Title: Metaphor Festival Amsterdam 

Date: 31-Aug-2016 - 03-Sep-2016
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands 
Contact Person: Gerard Steen
Meeting Email: metaphorfestivalamsterdam at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.metaphorlab.org/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2016 

Meeting Description:

The Metaphor Lab Amsterdam is delighted to announce that the next Metaphor
Festival will take place in Amsterdam from 31 August through 3 September 2016.
The Metaphor Festival is an annual conference on the use of figurative
language and other modes of figurative expression. It used to be arranged by
the Department of English at Stockholm University. From 2006 through 2015, a
series of ten successful conferences was held in Stockholm bringing together
researchers from a broad range of academic disciplines, working within
different theoretical and methodological paradigms in a creative,
internationally oriented, and friendly atmosphere. The Stockholm organizers
have now asked whether the Metaphor Lab Amsterdam can continue this tradition,
and we are more than happy to do so.

The combination of metaphor and Amsterdam in a festival has prompted the
Metaphor Lab Amsterdam to celebrate this configuration in one new way: after
two days of academic work on 1 and 2 September, Saturday 3 September will be
different. It will feature metaphor slams (deliberate metaphor production;
resistance to metaphor battle; debating by metaphor contest), outreach
activities to the non-academic community (metaphor in the real worlds of
health care, marketing, organization and management, politics and so on), and
metaphor-related artistic performances (poetry readings, stand-up comedy,
music). All of this is well matched with the so-called Amsterdam Time Out
Market, from Friday evening 2 September through Sunday evening 4 September,
with previews of the complete Time Out season 2016-2017 in a festival covering
the entire city attracting tens of thousands of people.

Call for Papers: 

The importance of figurative language and figurative semiotics is now
generally recognized, and the Festival offers an opportunity to present and
learn about research findings concerning figurative uses in different types of
human communication, and their cognitive, cultural, narrative, poetic,
rhetorical, social, textual or discourse functions. Contributions to the
general session of the Festival can address the linguistic and/or literary
character and use of tropes—metaphor, metonymy, simile, oxymoron, hyperbole,
litotes, punning, and irony—or the character and use of rhyme schemes, various
types of parallelism and other formal poetic constructions, as well as the
nature of figurative signs and devices in multi-modal or non-verbal
communication. Each talk is allotted 30 minutes, roughly 20 minutes for
presentation and 10 minutes for discussion.

Abstract guidelines: Abstracts should be 400 words maximum (without
references), and written in English (please provide glosses or translations
for examples in other languages). The abstract should have a title, but the
author’s name, academic affiliation, and email address should be indicated on
a separate sheet, where it should also be specified whether the abstract is
intended as a basis for a general session talk or a poster presentation.

All abstracts should submitted by Easychair from 1 March. Deadline for
submission is 31 March. Information about acceptances will be emailed by 15
April to all scholars submitting an abstract.

Registration, conference fees and accommodation will be announced later—please
check our website at www.metaphorlab.org for updates and further information.
We also have a Facebook page: Metaphor Festival Amsterdam 2016.

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