28.1463, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Ling & Lit, Pragmatics/Netherlands

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Subject: 28.1463, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Ling & Lit, Pragmatics/Netherlands

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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 14:00:09
From: Metaphor Festival Amsterdam [metaphorfestivalamsterdam at gmail.com]
Subject: Metaphor Festival ’17

Full Title: Metaphor Festival ’17 

Date: 31-Aug-2017 - 02-Sep-2017
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands 
Contact Person: Metaphor Festival Amsterdam
Meeting Email: metaphorfestivalamsterdam at gmail.com
Web Site: http://metaphorlab.org/metaphor-festival/metaphor-festival-17/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Ling & Literature; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2017 

Meeting Description:

Metaphor Festival Amsterdam 2017
Amsterdam, 31 August – 2 September 2017

The Metaphor Lab Amsterdam is delighted to announce that the next Metaphor
Festival will take place in Amsterdam from 31 August through 2 September 2017,
with Alan Cienki (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Kathleen Ahrens (Hong Kong
Polytechnic University) as this years’ keynote speakers.

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 Metaphor Lab Amsterdam
continues this tradition and last year’s first Metaphor Festival in Amsterdam
was a great success.

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 and effects. 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.

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 August 31 and September 1, Saturday 2 September
will be different. We are thinking of organizing metaphor slams (deliberate
metaphor production; resistance to metaphor battle; debating by metaphor
contest), outreach activities to the non-academic community and
metaphor-related artistic performances.

Call for Papers:

Metaphor Festival '17 
Amsterdam, 31 August – 2 September 2017

Abstract Guidelines:

Abstracts should be 400 words maximum and should be written in English (please
provide glosses or translations for examples in other languages).

Abstracts reporting on empirical data should have four sections: introduction,
methods, findings, and conclusions. Abstracts comprising a purely theoretical
or philosophical contribution should have three sections: introduction, main
argument, and conclusions.

All abstracts should end with a one-sentence take-home-message. Authors need
to make sure that their identities cannot be retrieved from the abstract
itself, and should include blind reference to their work that is not yet
publicly available (i.e., papers in press, under review and. or in
preparation).

How to Submit:

All abstracts should be submitted via metfest17.sciencesconf.org. If you have
never used the Sciencesconf platform before, you have to create an account.
Deadline for submission is 1 April. Information about acceptances will be
emailed by 28 April to all scholars submitting an abstract.

Registration:

Registration, conference fees and accommodation info will be announced
later—please check www.metaphorlab.org or our Facebook page for updates and
further information.

At the Metaphor Festival, we will award the second Christina Alm Arvius-award
for the best presentation by a student (BSc, MSc or PhD). Please indicate
during the registration process whether your presentation fits these
requirements and whether you would like to be considered for the award.

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