27.1270, Calls: Cog Sci, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

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Subject: 27.1270, Calls: Cog Sci, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 08:41:09
From: Anna Finzel [finzel at uni-potsdam.de]
Subject: 2nd Workshop on Metaphor Variation in Englishes Around the World

Full Title: 2nd Workshop on Metaphor Variation in Englishes Around the World 
Short Title: MetViEW-2 

Date: 07-Jul-2016 - 08-Jul-2016
Location: Potsdam, Germany 
Contact Person: Anna Finzel
Meeting Email: finzel at uni-potsdam.de
Web Site: https://metview.wordpress.com/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 09-Apr-2016 

Meeting Description:

Even though congruency between conceptual metaphor studies and World Englishes
can today be regarded as incontestable, these two areas of studies have paved
independent paths in linguistic research for quite a long time. While
cognitive-linguistic studies had long ignored cross-cultural variation in
metaphor (cf. Wolf, 1994, for an early critique to conceptual metaphor theory
on this issue), World Englishes – where within-language variation is, of
course, the core theme – mainly focused on certain overt linguistic phenomena.
Thus, variation in phonology, morphology, and syntax, for instance, has been
comprehensively described (Mesthrie & Bhatt, 2008), but almost no attention to
differences in cultural conceptualizations (Sharifian, 2011) was given.
However, a considerable amount of research has countered the abovementioned
tendencies by taking the usage-based approach to linguistic investigations
(Geeraerts, 2003) seriously into account through the analysis of conceptual
variation within World Englishes (e.g., Wolf & Polzenhagen, 2009).

Keynote speaker:

Prof Dr Farzad Sharifian, Monash University, Australia
''Metaphor Variation in World Englishes: A Cultural Linguistics Perspective''

References:
Geeraerts, D. (2003). ‘Usage-based’ implies ‘variational’: On the
inevitability of Cognitive Sociolinguistics. Paper presented at the 8th
International Cognitive Linguistics Conference 2003, Logrono, Spain, July
20-15.
Mesthrie, R.; Bhatt, R. M. (2008). World Englishes: The Study of New
Linguistic Varieties. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sharifian, F. (2011). Cultural Conceptualisations and Language.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing.
Sharifian, F. (2015). Cultural Linguistics and world Englishes. In World
Englishes, 34(4), 515-532.
Wolf, H.-G. (1994). A Folk Model of ‘Internal Self’ in the Light of the
Contemporary View of Metaphor – the Self as Subject and Object. European
University Studies, Series XIV Anglo-Saxon Language and Literature, vol. 284.
Frankfurt/M.: P. Lang.
Wolf, H.-G. (2008). A Cognitive Linguistic approach to the cultures of World
Englishes: The emergence of a new model. In G. Kristiansen & R. Dirven (eds.),
Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Language Variation, Cultural Models, Social
Systems. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 353-385.

2nd Call for Papers:

NOTE: EXTENDED SUBMISSION PERIOD UNTIL APRIL 9, 2016

This workshop builds on works that have made relevant moves to simultaneously
fill in the cultural variation gap in Cognitive Linguistics and the
cognitive-linguistic gap in World Englishes (Wolf, 2008; Wolf & Polzenhagen,
2009; Sharifian, 2015). With the aim to further advance studies that unite the
constructs of within-language conceptual variation, cognitive-linguistic
approaches to metaphor, and World Englishes, the workshop invites young as
well as experienced researchers to submit abstracts, present their work, and
engage in fruitful dialogue with other researchers in the field.

We are inviting submissions addressing:

- methodological approaches to the study of metaphor variation in World
Englishes
- identification of metaphors in electronic corpora of World Englishes
- media-based identification of metaphorical variation in World Englishes
- metaphorical processing by speakers of World Englishes

Beyond that, papers with other approaches that are also relevant to the
overall workshop topic are welcome.

Abstracts should be about 300 to 400 words long and submitted via the
conference website on https://metview.wordpress.com/.

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